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Skywizard
13th November 2015, 22:40
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Archaeologists in China have confirmed the discovery of a staggering 10 tonnes
of copper coins in an ancient grave dating back to around 2,000 years ago.

The incredible find in an old Western Han Dynasty tomb is now helping to shed light on the life of nobility in ancient times.

Chinese people started using coins as currency in around 1,200 BC, where instead of trading small farming implements and knives, they would melt them down into small round objects and then turn them back into knives and farm implements when needed.

The coins discovered in the tomb date back to around 206 BC, when copper coins replaced the melted down tools.

At the time they were of a very low value and often had holes in the middle so that they could be strung together to create larger denominations.

Around two million of the copper coins were found and are thought to be worth around £104,000 at face value - but a single coin will now sell for thousands of pounds.

The ancient money, which bears Chinese symbols, characters, and a central square hole, was found at a dig site in the city of Nanchang, China.

Alongside the coins were also chimes, bamboo slips and tomb figurines, all of which accompanied deceased nobles when they were buried underground.

The items have promised to help fill in more gaps as historians try to complete the puzzle of ancient Chinese burial customs.




Source: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ten-tonnes-2-000-old-115411509.html#zsUVRf6



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jake gittes
14th November 2015, 04:46
Tector: Silver rings...

Dutch: Silver rings, your butt.. them's washers!

Ellisa
14th November 2015, 06:18
I would imagine that the fact that there are so many of these coins found would mean that individually they would not be worth thousands each on the open market. Rarity is precious is this case.

(Plus they are made of copper, not gold, and do look like washers!P

Snoweagle
14th November 2015, 12:28
Those are copper washers for copper rivets used to assemble copper armour plates together on body armour. The square hole provides strength to the alignment of attached pieces.

Skywizard produced another revealing article of corpses found in Russia all clad in copper armour.

China and North West Russia have a history associated with "dragons" implying the skies were highly electrified (than today) and therefore for safety, the copper armour suits were worn to discharge to ground lightning bolts therefore protecting the wearer.

Just washers folks.

Shadowself
14th November 2015, 13:39
found in an ancient grave...The phrase; you can't take it with you comes to mind....

And no they are not washers. I have a few of those coins as souvenirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage

Snoweagle
24th November 2015, 00:23
found in an ancient grave...The phrase; you can't take it with you comes to mind....

And no they are not washers. I have a few of those coins as souvenirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage

Thats OK the. We rewrite history to satisfy your souvenir collection. A souvenir collection endorsed by peer reviewed Wikipedia. Like I do not think so.

Thousands of those rivet washers would have been needed to clamp the conductive armour plates worn thousands of years ago in the far east and north east. There will be found (if not already) similar caches of the rivets themselves though these could be, and most likely converted into arrow heads by the sheer size and weight of the rivets themselves.

I explore the science of archaeology and I do not collect or "jackdaw" prize trinkets or souvenirs.