Category:Chinese cash coins with flower hole

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中文（臺灣）：花穿錢

Eight-pointed or sixteen-sided (hexadecagonal) holes in the middle of Chinese cash coins are called "flower holes", "chestnut holes" or "rosette holes", these holes were called so because of the fact that this hexadecagonal hole resembled the shape of a flower. If the shape of these holes were only hexagonal then they were referred to as "turtle shell holes", in some Western sources they may be called "star holes" because they resemble stars.

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