475-221BC CHINA WARRING STATES CHU Ghost Face Early Chinese Coin

• 475-221 BC CHINA WARRING STATES Early Coin. Weighs 1.8 Grams.

GHOST FACE COWRIE

• These are called Ghost Face (Or Ant nose) coins but thats just a modern name as the picture of the “face” on these coins is actually ancient Chinese letters. They are from the Chinese state of Chu and date from the Warring states period (475-221BC). These Ghost Face cowries are proven to have been used as coins and have been found in hoards like ancient coins often are (The largest hoard ever found being 16,000 coins). Historian Sima Quan (Who lived roughly 145-86 BC and whom wrote a history of what at the time was believed to have been the history of China for the previous 2000 years (and told us a lot about the Warring states period) wrote:
• “With the opening of exchange between farmers, artisans, and merchants, there came into use money of tortoise shells, cowrie shells, gold, coins knives , spades. This has been so from remote antiquity.”
• The size and weight of these coins are very variable and often contain a high percentage of Lead. Ghost face coins are imitations of cowrie shells. Cowrie shells were earlier used as a form of trade and barter and when they made coins they patterned them after Cowrie shells - which had value at the time. This is one of the earliest metal creations to be used as coins in the way that today we think of as how coins are used. (313789-131)

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