String of 800 cash
From southern China, around AD
1910
Hundreds of coins strung
together
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casting East Asian
coins.
As
each individual coin was worth very little,
cash
coins of China and East Asia were often strung together into a
larger unit of 1000. A strign could contain fewer coins, but still
retain its nominal value of 1000
cash.
Although this
particular
assemblage
of 800 coins looks more like a bunch of bananas, it can still be
termed a 'string' of coins. It contains cash coins
and forgeries from China (including an eleventh-century coin),
Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong. The presence of coins from Vietnam
and Hong Kong indicates that it probably came from the south of
China.