DECIMAL COINAGE SYSTEMS 上市 Deposited
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.- 2004-09-12
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