Two and a half thousand years of Chinese history in a single picture 📷, from pre-Imperial to the Republican era.
I see it as my personal mission to make Wikimedia websites the #1 online information hub regarding East-Asian and Vietnamese cash coins, in order for this to happen this entire list would need to be completed. ✅ done
Import all information regarding Ryukyuan and Japanese cash coins from the website of Dr. Luke Roberts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. ✅ done
Import all useful information regarding Korean mun variants and Chinese coins from Primal Trek/Primaltrek by Gary Ashkenazy (Hebrew: גארי אשכנזי). ✅ done
Import all factually accurate information from Numista’s A reference list of 5000 years of Chinese coinage located in Numisdoc’s Numismatic Encyclopedia and make Wikipedia into a full list of all Chinese coins. ✅ done
Import all useful information regarding Chinese cash coins from David Hartill’s Cast Chinese coins. ✅ done
Import all useful information from Charm.ru. ✅ done
Import all information regarding the Tenpō Tsūhō from Arte-Factual (by Kelly M.) and create an article about this subject. ✅ done
Import all useful information regarding Vietnamese cash coins from Art-Hanoi.com (by Sema/Pyvanet~commonswiki) and other websites. ✅ done
Import all information about the Nagasaki Trade Coins from various websites and make it into an article. ✅ done
Import all images of coins from Jean-Michel Moullec (Flickr) to Wikimedia Commons. ✅ done
Things that are “missing” that I can't add for a variety of (mostly copyright-related) reasons.
Images from Gary Ashkenazy's Primal Trek/Primaltrek of Korean coins, as of writing this on Gary Ashkenazy’s Primal Trek/Primaltrek page on Korean coins has images of every mint mark and Goryeo Dynasty coin, meanwhile on Wikimedia Commons there are less than 10 different Sang P'yŏng T'ong Bo (常平通寶) mint marks. (see Category:Coins of the Joseon Dynasty). Note that all relevant information has already been imported, but as this thread (or this one) noted Primal Trek/Primaltrek to be “a favourite source” this reasoning was partially backed up with the availability of the images on the website, something Wikimedia Commons currently lacks. Also note that David Hartill covers this same subject in depth with images, a request to both him and Gary Ashkenazy to upload these images are currently unanswered.
Images of Ryukyuan coins from Dr. Luke Roberts (University of California at Santa Barbara). As of writing this there is not a single (standalone) image of a native-cast Ryukyuan mon coin. ✅ done (OTRS ticket 🎟)
General offline sources unfortunately, though I’ve imported the texts from David Hartill’s works, most illustrations and images are offline and can be found in the books 📚 of either David Hartill and Dr. R. Allan Barker. So if anyone owns any cash coin then feel free to upload photographs of them here to Wikimedia Commons.
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