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Cloth coins, also known as shovel cloth because of their shape-like shape, evolved from bronze agricultural tools, and are shovel-shaped copper coins circulating in the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of China. Shovel-shaped tools were once the medium of folk trading, so the earliest coinage was minted into a shovel. The original cloth coin, retaining its appearance as a tool, left with a handle, primitive and heavy, later gradually lightened, thinned, and smaller, and the coin body became completely in the form of a sheet, which was easy to cast and carry. This loan cloth coin signboard is well preserved and has a high collector's value!