What are the types of currency in the Warring States period?

Currency during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods was divided into four types in terms of shape and distribution: cloth coins, knife coins, huanqian (圜钱) and ant-nose money (鬼脸钱).

The cloth coins were mainly used in the Sanjin region; the knife coins were used in the Qi and Yan states; the huan money was used in the Qin and Wei states and the ant-nose money (ghost-faced money) was used in the Chu state.

I. Specific distribution:

1, the eastern state of qi and the northern state of yan mainly use knife coins. Knife coins are divided into "Yan Ming knife" and "Qi knife" two major types.

2. Huanqian, also known as huanjin and huanqian, was an ancient Chinese copper coin. It was mainly circulated in Qin and Wei during the Warring States period.

3. Ant-nosed money was the currency circulating in the Chu State in the Jianghuai Valley, transformed from imitation shells.

4, cloth coins is the ancient Chinese currency, because the shape like a shovel, also known as shovel cloth, the early spring and autumn appeared until the late warring states minted and circulated shovel-shaped currency. "Bo" is "Bo" of the homophonic pseudo-character, common in ancient times. The cloth coins evolved from the bronze agricultural tools 鎛, mainly in the three Jin, two weeks area. According to the shape of cloth coins, can be divided into two categories: empty head cloth, flat head cloth.

Two,

Knife coins are the evolution of the Shang and Zhou period of tools bronze chipped, so the knife coins have a ring on the end of the handle, the handle has a cleavage groove, the shape of the needle head knife, pointed head knife, round head knife, arc back knife, etc., mainly circulated in the east of qi, yan, etc., and then developed to zhao, zhongshan, etc. and cloth coins coexisted side by side. There are many kinds of knives, including Qi knife, Jimo knife, Anyang knife, needle head knife, pointed head knife, round head knife and Ming knife. There is a text cast on it. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he unified the coinage system and abolished the coins of shell, knife and cloth. Subsequently, the coins minted by Wang Mang had gold error knives.