The researchers found a series of clay moulds used for casting spade coins, as well as fragments of the coins, at a location in Guanzhuang in Xingyang, Henan province, China....
Believed to date back between 2, 640 and 2, 550 years ago, the moulds could be part of the Eastern Zhou period( 770-220 BCE) bronze foundry, and functioned as a mint for producing coins....
Dr Hao Zhao, of the School of History at Zhengzhou University, hailed the find, and described research into the" monetisation of a
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