Each had a value of
40,000 cash. (Ma Twan-lin, Bk. 8, 5.)"
Mr. Charles F. Keary (Coins and Medals, by S. Lane Poole, 128) mentions
that "in the reign of Elizabeth there was a very extensive issue of
private tokens in lead, tin, latten, and leather." - H. C.]
(Klapr. in Mem. Rel. a l'Asie, I. 375 seqq.; Biot, in J. As. ser.
III. tom. iv.; Marsden and Pauthier, in loco; Parkes, in J. R. A.
S. XIII. 179; Doolittle, 452 seqq.; Wylie, J. of Shanghai Lit. and
Scient. Soc. No. I.; Arbeiten der kais. russ. Gesandsch. zu Peking, I.
p. 48; Rennie, Peking, etc., I. 296, 347; Birch, in. Num. Chron.
XII. 169; Information from Dr. Lockhart; Alcock, II. 86; D'Ohsson,
IV. 53; Cowell, in J. A. S. B. XXIX. 183 seqq.; Thomas, Coins of
Patan Sovs. of Hind., (from Numism. Chron. 1852), p. 139 seqq.;
Kington's Fred. II. II. 195; Amari, III. 816; W. Vissering, On
Chinese Currency, Leiden, 1877.)
["Without doubt the Mongols borrowed the bank-note system from the Kin. Up
to the present time there is in Si-ngan-fu a block kept, which was used
for printing the bank-notes of the Kin Dynasty. I have had the opportunity
of seeing a print of those bank-notes, they were of the same size and
shape as the bank-notes of the Ming.
