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[edit][[File:Wadokaichin coin 8th century Japan.jpg|thumb|Silver ''Wadōkaichin'' (和同開珎) coin, 8th century, Japan. [[Japan Currency Museum]].]] [[File:Wadokaichin copper coin.jpg|thumb|Wadōkaichin copper coin.]] [[File:Chinese Kaigentsuho coin.jpg|thumb|The Chinese ''Kāiyuán Tōngbǎo'' coin (開元通寶), first minted in 621 CE in [[Chang'an]], was the model for the Japanese ''Wadō Kaihō''.]] {{nihongo|'''Wadōkaichin'''|和同開珎}}, also romanized as '''Wadō-kaichin''' or called '''Wadō-kaihō''', is the oldest official [[Japanese currency|Japanese coinage]], having been minted starting on 29 August 708<ref>[[Japanese calendar|Traditional Japanese date]] 10 August according to ''[[Shoku Nihongi]]''</ref> on order of [[Empress Genmei]].<ref>{{citation | last = Titsingh | first = Isaac | year = 1834 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA63,M1 | title = Annales des empereurs du Japon | pages = 63–5 | language = French}}.</ref><ref>Brown, Delmer ''et al.'' (1979). ''Gukanshō,'' p. 271,</ref><ref>Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki.'' p. 140.</ref> == Description == The coins, which were round with a square hole in the center, remained in circulation until 958 AD.<ref>{{citation | last = Nussbaum | first = Louis-Frédéric | year = 2005 | contribution = Wadō-kaihō | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA1024&dq= | title = Japan encyclopedia | page = 1024}}; n.b., {{citation | url = http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 | publisher = Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | title = Authority File}}.</ref> These were the first of a series of coins collectively called ''jūnizeni'' or {{nihongo|''kōchō jūnisen''|[[:ja:皇朝十二銭]]}}.<ref>Nussbaum, [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA539&dq= p. 539.]</ref> ''"Wadōkaichin"'' is the transliteration of the four characters in the coin's inscription, which is thought to be composed of the era name [[Wadō (era)|Wadō]] (和銅, "Japanese copper"), which could alternatively mean "happiness", and "Kaichin", thought to be related to "Currency". This coinage was inspired by the (Chinese) Tang dynasty coinage (唐銭) named ''[[Ancient Chinese coinage#Tang issues|Kaigentsūhō]]'' (Chinese: 開元通宝, ''Kai Yuan Tong Bao''), first minted in [[Chang'an]] in 621 CE. The Wadōkaichin had the same specifications as the Chinese coin, with a diameter of 2.4 cm and a weight of 3.75 g.<ref name="JCM">[[Japan Currency Museum]] (日本貨幣博物館) permanent exhibit.</ref> == History == <ref>The [[British Museum]] - [https://britishmuseum.org/pdf/Catalogue%20of%20the%20Japanese%20Coin%20Collection.pdf Catalogue of the Japanese Coin Collection (pre-Meiji) at the British Museum with special reference to Kutsuki Masatsuna] by Shin’ichi Sakuraki, Helen Wang and Peter Kornicki, with Nobuhisa Furuta, Timon Screech, and Joe Cribb. ISBN 978 086159 174 9 ISSN 1747-3640 (© Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum 2010) Retrieved: 11 April 2018.</ref> == See also == * [[Ryō (Japanese coin)]] * [[Japanese mon (currency)]] * [[Wadō (era)]] * [[Economy of Japan]] == Notes == {{reflist|1}} == References == * [[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&dq=Gukansho&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/title/future-and-the-past-a-transl-and-study-of-the-gukansho-an-interpretative-history-of-japan-written-in-1219/oclc/251325323 OCLC 251325323] * [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan.'' Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887] * [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&client=firefox-a ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128] * [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon''] (''[[Nihon Odai Ichiran]]''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/nipon-o-dai-itsi-ran-ou-annales-des-empereurs-du-japon/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691] * [[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul]]. (1980). ''A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.'' New York: [[Columbia University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-231-04940-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/title/chronicle-of-gods-and-sovereigns-jinno-shotoki-of-kitabatake-chikafusa/oclc/6042764&referer=brief_results OCLC 6042764] == External links == * [http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/kids/history.html ''Wado Kaichin'' from Japan Mint Museum]. {{Japanese currency and coinage}}.
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[edit]<ref>The [[British Museum]] - [https://britishmuseum.org/pdf/Catalogue%20of%20the%20Japanese%20Coin%20Collection.pdf Catalogue of the Japanese Coin Collection (pre-Meiji) at the British Museum with special reference to Kutsuki Masatsuna] by Shin’ichi Sakuraki, Helen Wang and Peter Kornicki, with Nobuhisa Furuta, Timon Screech, and Joe Cribb. ISBN 978 086159 174 9 ISSN 1747-3640 (© Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum 2010) Retrieved: 11 April 2018.</ref>