A CHINESE WORK ON NUMISMATICS. 479 



TRANSLATION OF THE CH'UAN PU T'UNG CHIH. 



Extracts from the Introduction to the "Ch'uan Pu T'ung 



Chih". 



The compilation of the "Ch'uan Pu T'ung Chih" was begun in 

 1816; in the winter of 1832 it had been printed; and in the spring of 

 1833 * the binding was completed. 



As there are many hundreds of varieties of paper money, they could 

 not be enumerated even on a hundred pages. 



The following are some of the notes which I acquired : 



From Mr. T'ao's collection, in the autumn of 1832, notes of the 

 Sung Dynasty (Chien-lung Era, 960-962); of the Yiian Dynasty 

 (Chih-yiian Era, 1264-1294); and of the Ming Dynasty (Hung-wu 

 Era, 1368-1398) — twenty-three in all. 



In the summer of the following year, from Mr. Chu, notes of the 

 Sung Dynasty (Ching-k'ang Era, 1126, and the Chien-yen Era, 1127- 

 1130) ; of the Western Hsia Dynasty (Yiian-te Era, 1119-1126) ; of the 

 Chin Dynasty (Tien-hui Era, 1 123-1137) ; of the Liao Dynasty (K'ang- 

 kuo Era, 1127-1135, and the Hsien-ch'ing Era, 1136-1141) — thirty- 

 one in all. 



And in the spring of 1834, f from the Tung Collection, notes of the 

 T'ang Dynasty (Hui-ch'ang Era, 841-846, the Ta-chung Era, 847-859, 

 the Hsien-t'ung Era, 860-873, the Lung-chi Era, 889, and the T'ien- 

 yu Era, 904-922); of the Sung Dynasty (Shao-hsing Era, 1131-1162), 

 the Ch'ien-tao Era, 1165-1173); of the Yiian Dynasty (T'ien4i Era, 

 1328-1329, and the Chih-cheng Era, 1341-1367) ; of the Ming Dynasty 

 (Yung4e Era, 1403-1424, and the Hung-hsi Era, 1425 1)— one hun- 

 dred and sixty-seven in all. 



Notes of Emperor K^.o-tsung (650-683 A. D.) of the T'ang 



Dynasty. 



In 650 A. D. Kao-tsung ascended the throne, establishing the era 

 called Yung-hui (650-655 A. D.); and during his rule, which extended 

 in all over a period of thirty-three years, the name of the era under- 

 went fourteen changes. 



* This must be the date of the first edition. K. T. 



t This date falls one year after the completion of the book. K. T. 



t These dates are all A.D.— K. T. 



