CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

By necessity, the play is performed in Mandarin and English by a mostly bilingual cast, with subtitles projected in changing spots on the set. However there are no characters to indicate the coin's value. During the 6th century BC, flat, simplified, and standardized cast bronze versions of spades appear and these constitute China's first coins. While the images are not quite good enough to be absolutely certain, the coin appears to be "struck" as opposed to "cast". Radiocarbon dates will be due soon,” said the anthropologist. Other coin shapes appear in bronze including knives and cowrie shells. The coming time and place, and the value were also cast on the coins. But the savvy director Leigh Silverman makes sure that everything is crystal This was, no doubt, a very tough play to cast. This system continued until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and the early Republic of China (1911-1949), namely, more than 1 000 years. I'm researching my first Chinese coine and believe I've found out that one side indicates Hsien-Feng T'ung-Pao and the other indicates Department of Public Works Mint and Coin. €Colleagues in China have already correctly identified the coin and we are all excited about the find. What else would you call a coin made under Spanish authority in Mexico that circulated in China, picking up local chop marks along the way? I just saw this coin on eBay ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/1111-1117-Chitem416f19a868 ) and it was the first time I've seen a Chinese cast coin in a. Unlike the ancient and medieval coins of the European and Islamic worlds which exhibited variations due to their primitive production methods of striking coins by hand, Chinese 'cash' was cast. But the well-chosen Jennifer Lim, who plays the vice minister driving the action and the deal, offers a very clever performance that catches the many sides of the current Chinese coin.