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Qi knife Ji Mo Zhi Fa Hua
| Issuer | Qi, State of |
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| Year | 401 BC - 220 BC |
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| Currency | Knife money (401-220 BC) |
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| Reverse lettering | 大 行 (Translation: Da Xing) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ji Mo was one of the most strategically vital cities in the Qi state — during the devastating Yan invasion of 284 BC, it was one of only two cities in Qi that held out against Yue Yi's forces for over five years. Whether coins bearing its name circulated during that siege or were struck before or after remains an open question, but the city's survival anchored the eventual Qi reconquest under Tian Dan.
The "Fa Hua" inscription indicates this piece functioned as legal tender at face value rather than by weight — an early experiment in fiduciary currency that predates Western equivalents by centuries.