Human civilization doesn’t get much more ancient than China ... 93,000 based on that year’s exchange rates. This coin was produced for China by the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, UK, and features ...

The oldest known uses of coins as currency, though, can be traced back to ancient China, ancient India and ancient Greece, alongside a couple other archaic civilizations. Chinese coin from early 1400s ...

Villagers in eastern China unearthed a buried hoard of hundreds of thousands of ancient coins while building a ... allowed people to exchange everyday currency for more portable assets, such ...

One coin was so badly rusted that it was impossible to tell whether it had any writing on it. However, researchers can still tell that it was an ancient Chinese circular coin with a square hole.