Seeking ancient Chinese coinage, by dynasty.

Before Qin it was more mixed. There were knife coins. Round. Trapezoidal. Shells. Cloth and so on. Behind the Han mostly used garden type square hole copper coins (inherited from the Qin) large denomination is to use silver and gold. In order to speed up the circulation. Sui and Tang dynasties have appeared in large quantities of silver tickets. Ming and Qing dynasties have round solid silver coins. Until the Republic of China. Copper plate appeared in large quantities everywhere. Paper money issued in large quantities and over-issued to economic turmoil is Kong Xiangxi as finance minister period. After the founding of the country to paper money. Coins as a supplement to the circulation.