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China

 

Collected by Louis Colville Gray Clarke

Acquired by the Museum by exchange in 1936

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Coin, China

Coins are believed to have been invented both by the Greek inhabitants of what is now Turkey in the seventh century BC, and independently in China a little later. Early coins in China were copies of agricultural tools, usually knives or spades. This is an example of pu, a form of coin derived from spade money.

View database record 1936.64.2