Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the Britis Museum (1892)
Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894, Poole, Reginald Stuart, 1832-1895, British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals · London : The Trustees; [etc., etc.] · leaf 414
m Tao Ming .e. Tao of Ming. … j without any uuirks The word tao, knife, had then lost its proper meaning, and was used simply asa unit of currency. The issue must belong to the period when the Knife-Moneywas superseded by the more convenient shape of the Round currency, in the thirdcentury B.C. Ming is the same town in the…
Numismatics · Coins, Chinese
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