Cicada Money Public Deposited

Definition
  • The name given to a variety of Chinese metallic currency on ac- count of its resemblance to the harvest fly. Ramsden, who describes them in detail (pp. 33-34), quotes a Chinese manual where they are mentioned as money to be fastened to wearing apparel.

Source
  • Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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