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Rest in Peace
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Uh, Hash money? Or something like that.  |
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remove the lastic before taking pictures please. you can search this (old) book: https://www. Dangerous site - not allowed! /s/c6cidiqnu6hpsu4/Catalogue_Chinese_Coins_7thcBC-621AD.pdf?dl=1 edit: please find the link to the catalog here: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic60083.htmlIt is safe to download Edited by Petrus
06/17/2017 2:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Not Chinese. It's an example of Pre-Columbian hoe money.
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To contribute a bit more info, the OP example is of the Guerrero-Michoacan type of hoe money, and dates c. 1200 - 1520 AD. You'll occasionally see these listed as Aztec money, but they are not. Rather they are likely from the Tarascan or other west Mexico cultures of that period. Some examples, below.  (treasurenet.com)  (coincoin.com)  (anythinganywhere.com)  ( ebay) |
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Hash money? Pre- Colombian hoe money? What side of coin community did I find myself on?  Cool find for an estate sale though. Btw I don't recommend flexing it  |
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first time I see this kind of money . Hoe money , if you say this in Dutch :Hoe money = Hoe geld , it means : what , is this money ? albert
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Thank you Bob! I have one of these and had no idea what it was.
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Yeah, I had remembered seeing one of these at a meeting of the local ancient coin club. Somebody had passed around as a show-and-tell. Like the Chinese spades you wrote about recently, Thomas, these are likely derived from actual tools but are far too flimsy (note Rmassey210's comment "...it is flexible") to be anything other than what they are: money.
Some excerpts from "The Hoe Money of Central and South America" by James Martin:
"...archeaologists and numismatists specializing in Mexican coins concur that these hoe, or axe, shaped metal artifacts were used as money...If you review the earliest bronze money of China you can follow the transition of money development from the bronze 'spade,' used as a tool to turn earth and to weed crops, to the proto-coin that was used as money. The proto-coin soon represents a certain standardized weight of metal and can no longer be used as a tool even though it still resembles one. As the transition progresses the money soon looses [sic] all visual relationship to the original tool...In a similar way the hoe money system developed in South America and was quickly adopted in Central America..."
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