[HN Gopher] World's Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Ol...
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       World's Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese
       Foundry
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-08-07 12:20 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.artnews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.artnews.com)
        
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       | runeks wrote:
       | Bronze coins is in alignment with India's use of copper coins
       | since around 500-1000 BCE:
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_of_India
        
       | Koshkin wrote:
       | I love the simple times when a "coin" was simply a stamp on a
       | piece of precious metal certifying its weight.
        
       | ourmandave wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       | http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
        
       | k_sze wrote:
       | Has anybody figured out exactly where Guanzhuang is? China is
       | _huge_. And even if TFA says it's near the Yellow River, the
       | Yellow River is also quite long. Having only the phonetic name,
       | without even the province name, is really unhelpful.
        
         | milkllz wrote:
         | I went to the source and saw the map.
         | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ra...
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         | And from the map. It looks like it's around this part of Yellow
         | River. (Guanzhuang, Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
         | 34.69942093691378, 113.36167182390584)
        
         | k_sze wrote:
         | The source article in Antiquity says Xingyang, Henan province.
         | That's He Nan Sheng Ying Yang Shi . Trying to pinpoint it now.
         | (But even Henan may have multiple cities or municipalities with
         | the same phonetic spelling. Crossing fingers.)
        
           | yorwba wrote:
           | It's here, I think: https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B
           | 042'02.7%22N+113%C2...
        
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