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Chang'an
| Issuer | State of Qin (Warring States) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 220 BC |
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| Currency | Liang (350-300 BC) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (250 BC - 220 BC) |
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The State of Qin's spade and knife coinages circulated alongside those of rival kingdoms throughout the Warring States period, but Qin's monetary policy was deliberately consolidating — by the time Ying Zheng unified China in 221 BC, he abolished all competing regional currency forms outright, mandating the ban liang as the sole legal tender. Coins attributable to the Qin state from the decades immediately preceding unification are consequently scarce in high-grade survivors; they were systematically withdrawn and reminted.
Hartill 6.28 places this piece in the late consolidation phase of Qin's westward-expanding fiscal apparatus, centered on the capital at Xianyang rather than Chang'an, which would not become a major administrative center until the Han dynasty.