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Mike McCoy (businessman) Michael Vernon McCoy (September 10, 1948 – October 17, 2021) was an American businessman. As a minority owner and vice-president of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), he was credited with inventing the trade-value draft chart. He also worked in the oil and gas industry .
The earliest coinage of China was described by Sima Qian, the great historian of c. 100 BCE: With the opening of exchange between farmers, artisans, and merchants, there came into use money of tortoise shells, cowrie shells, gold, coins (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián), knives (Chinese: 刀; pinyin: dāo), spades (Chinese: 布; pinyin: bù).
This cash coins has rather broad rims. 大觀通寶 (Daguan Tongbao) 中 (Zhong) The "中" is written in seal script and is above the square center hole on the reverse. 大觀通寶 (Daguan Tongbao) 半錢 (Ban Qian) The reverse inscription indicates that this cash coin had a nominal value of half a qián of silver.
Silver coin: 8 reales Carlos IV - 1808. Chop marks on coins are Chinese characters stamped or embossed onto coins by merchants in order to validate the weight, authenticity and silver content of the coin. Depending on particular technique coins said to have been "chopmarked", "countermarked" and "counterstamped". [1]
Early Kōchōsen. Japan's first formal currency system was the Kōchōsen (Japanese: 皇朝銭, "Imperial currency"). It was exemplified by the adoption of Japan's first official coin type, the Wadōkaichin. [12][13] It was first minted in 708 CE on order of Empress Genmei, Japan's 43rd Imperial ruler. [12] ". Wadōkaichin" is the reading of ...
The global silver trade between the Americas, Europe, and China from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries was a spillover of the Columbian exchange which had a profound effect on the world economy. Many scholars consider the silver trade to mark the beginning of a genuinely global economy, [1] with one historian noting that silver "went round ...
The Silk Road[a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds. [2][3][4] The name "Silk Road" was first coined ...
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...