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• The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 37, September 12, 2004, Article 10
  

  DECIMAL COINAGE SYSTEMS
  

  Howard A. Daniel III writes: "I do not believe the Russians
  were the first with a decimal coinage system. I'm away from
  home when writing this item but think the Chinese (and
  Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese) cash-style coin system
  was decimal.
  

  The individual coins' full weight was divided into ten (10) units,
  then one hundred (100) of the coins was another unit, and one
  thousand (1000) was another unit. There were other
  temporary units for 300, 600, etc., but the official system was
  the 10, 100, 1000, etc.
  

  I have also read many articles about the "first" coins of the
  world being from the area of the Mediterranean Sea. This
  may be true for the "Western" world, but the actual first coins
  of the entire world were made in the "Eastern" world.
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v07n37a10.html

Date published

• 2004-09-12

Volume

• 7

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