Archaeological Dataset

Early Chinese Coin Finds Database

A searchable record of pre-Qin to early Han coin discoveries across China — sites, contexts, typology, and geographic distribution.

This database contains 660,417 coins in 1,496 validated sites across 6,572 find records.

Mints

Documented mint towns, with locations and coin output

The full typology tree, with find counts by category

ANS museum specimens by mint town, searchable by accession number

About the site and about the people

Explore coin distributions across minting facilities and find sites.

Spade, knife, round & ant-nose coins compared

Compares spade, knife, round, and ant-nose coin distributions across every recorded find site (Coin Type, Compare view)

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The full typology tree, with find counts by category