Washington County News | 1927-04-07 | Page 7 | Old Chinese Money Had Shape of Toys

IvXvXXvX-Xv:vXvSvXvX Old Chinese Money Kad Shape of Toys It Is pretty detinlteiv settled that the Chinese were the first lo make use or the token idea in nuy.n! C'ins for the convenient interchange of commodities. com-modities. When lirst working with metal money they tried to shape the lnetal to Indicate wb.it one could buy w'.ih it. l or example, s unc of the early coin money was s-ha; cd like a lu;i"":ni body. Ii wus g:en lhi shape to in.-ticr.re that It wo:;! 1 h'ty clothing. Another shape was thet of a mo Icrn razornot a .ssfety whb-h indicated that the coin wor.ld bv.y a weapon. A third shape was that cf a spade. The Chinese did tv! have coin s'-apes of Mifl'.clert variety to Indicate Indi-cate everything In v!:!.-!l they traded. They had a few shapes only, and the theory 1 that these would cover eli the diiTen nl ankles one miabt vrl.-d. to buy. Ii -r example, the hody-shaped money N'ouid coer evr liiii.g pt-r tnlnius lo clothing nrstl shelter ; th razor-shaped wor.ld co.erall weapons, implements nnd tools which men iw'. and so on. The bra-.-; ''cash" (rnnml coin v.'iiii a sipaire ho!e in the nadiuo) which has Iv n us d fT !.;-0 years oi mere. Is s!:ll tl- is--ii-.m.:i money ii the Interior of China.