C1614 I'll Give You the Podium and You Can Come and Teach!

Cloth coins, resembling shovels and thus also called shovel coins, evolved from bronze agricultural implements.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in Yan Country, these shovel-shaped copper coins were in circulation among the various states of the Central Plains.

Shovel-shaped tools once served as a medium for trade among the populace