Zhiqian

A late-19th-century machine-struck Guangxu Tongbao (光緒通寶) cash coin of 1 wén with a standard weight of 1 Kuping Qian (庫平錢), which was the nationally set standard weight for cash coins during the Guangxu era.

Standard cash (traditional Chinese: 制錢; simplified Chinese: 制钱; pinyin: zhì qián; Manchu: ᡳ
ᠵᡳᡴᠠ; Möllendorff: Durun i jiha), or regulation cash coins, is a term used during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China to refer to standard issue copper-alloy cash coins produced in imperial Chinese mints according to weight and composition standards that were fixed by the imperial government.[1] The term was first used for Hongwu Tongbao cash coins following the abolition of large denomination versions of this cash coin series.

  1. ^ Ulrich Theobald (25 May 2016). "zhiqian 制錢, standard cash". Chinaknowledge.de. Retrieved 13 March 2020.