Frühe chinesische Münzen 1122 BC oder noch früher?

verfasst von Popeye, 10.08.2002, 22:44

Quiggin, A. Hingston (Alison Hingston)
A survey of primitive money: the beginnings of currency.
New York: AMS Press, 1979. - 344p: ill ; 23 cm.
Includes index. - Reprint of the 1949 ed. published by Methuen,
London. - Bibliography, p. 323-333. - 0-404-15964-8

p 228"Chinese coins claim to be the earliest of all, with round coins
dating from the earlier half of the Chou dynasty (1122-249 B.C.) and
other forms such as spade, hoe, knife,... earlier still. This is a moderate
estimate. There are distinguished authorities in Europe as well as in China,
who, relying chiefly on literary evidence, would shift the date some
thousand years further back. The testimony of the Shu Ching, the earliest
historical work in China (much of which is undoubtedly later interpolation)
assigns the origin of currency to the very beginning of the Shang dynasty
in the 18th century B.C.... The Shih Chi or Historical Records of Ssu-ma
Ch'ien, written between 163-85 B.C., states that media of exchange were
in existence in the Hsia dynasty which preceded the Shang dynasty, and
even in the time of Emperors Shun and Yu in the 3rd millenium."





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