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 ...

A "Ban Liang" was the oldest coin found and was used during the Chinese empire. Archaeologists found a trove of 100,000 ancient coins at an excavation site in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture ...

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 ...