In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were people in Raozhou (Rao Prefecture) calledyongshuren, who wrote land deals on behalf of buyers and sellers and who were paid hundreds of coins at a time (Hongmai,Yijian sanzhi(Three Records of Yijian),Xinji(Xin Collections), vol.7. 9. Wang Zheng...
10. Bali, Thai or Mexican Silver There is a great deal of quality silver coming out of Bali, Thailand, and Mexico; however, that silver should also be marked and identified with a quality stamp and/or quality disclosure. There are also much lower grade silver alloys from these nations that...
With very few exceptions, the coins circulating in the Colonies until the Revolution were unauthorized private issues or old worn coppers no longer acceptable in England or Ireland. Silver was rare (consisting mainly of Spanish and Mexican dollars) andgoldalmost nonexistent. Copper was then a semi...
the latter in the form of ingots. As a result of the popularity of imported Spanish colonial and Mexican dollars, several attempts were made to institute a silver coinage based on thedollarin the 19th century; not
On other occasions the coins had merely fiduciary value—that is, no intrinsic value at all—as was the case with the numerous coinages of the Mexican patriot José María Morelos (1765–1815), who produced eight-real pieces in copper. Only in Mexico were there mints of any importance, ...