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Chinese numismatics

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The renminbi (; ; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of China. The renminbi is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of China. It is the world's fifth-most-traded currency as of April 2025. The Chinese yuan () is the basic unit of the renminbi.

Shanghai Museum

museum in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China

thumb|Imperial gold syceethumb|upright=0.8|Silver sycee thumb|Drawing of a boat-shaped silver sycee thumb|Silver sycee thumb|Gold sycee and molds

Chinese currency unit used on cash coins in imperial and early republican China

style of former Chinese coins minted with central holes for transport on ropes and cords

thumb|Bronze mold for Mint (facility)|minting banliang coins, [[Warring States period (221 BC), state of Qin, from an excavation in Qishan County, Baoji, Shaanxi]]

historical money of China

Kaiyuan Tongbao

Historical Chinese currency

ancient Chinese coinage

coin production and deployment of ancient China

Qing dynasty coinage

historical coinage of China

history of Chinese currency

history of money in China

string of cash coins

the bundling of cash coins into a string

Yuan dynasty coinage

historical coinage of China

Great Qing Treasure Note

Currency (historical banknote)

Chinese cash coins

Chinese cash coin

Albert Terrien de Lacouperie

sinologist (1844-1894)

historical coinage of China

historical currency of China

Stephen Wootton Bushell

English physician and amateur Orientalist (1844–1908)

Great Ming Treasure Note

historical paper money of China

a historical series of Qing Dynasty banknotes

thumb|right|A vault protector coin of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

James Haldane Stewart Lockhart

British colonial administrator (1858-1937)

Chinese Buddhist scholar (1874–1952)

Hosea Ballou Morse

Historian of China (1855-1934)

Qing dynasty coin