Choose the best answers1.When were the earliest coins used in China? A.about 3000 years ago B.about 2000 years ago C.earlier than the year of 1000 BC D.around the year of 1000 AD2.How long were the coins with holes in them used? A.2000 years B.less than 2000 years C.about 2000 years D.more than 20 centuries3.Why were the round coins with holes used for so many years? A.They looked nice . B.They were made of silver. C.They were easy to carry and use . D.They were made of gold.4.Before coins appeared what were used for money? A.seashells and paper B.bamboo sticks and stones C.wood and cloth D.seashells and clothes5.What was found in 1978? A.a collection of coins in England B.an old gold mine C.a collection of coins in Australia D.both B and C

6.What were the earliest coins in the west made of? A.gold B.gold mixed with silver C.iron D.aluminum(铝 )7.Why were Chinese coins between the 7th century and the late 1870s be found in northern Australia? A.Because the same coins were used in Australia at that time. B.Because thousands of Chinese worked there in the late 19th

century. C.Because some Australians took them there form China. D.It is still unknown.

seashells cloth

wood bamboo sticks

before coins , …… could be used as money

today’s money and coins

Ren Min Bi U.S. Dollars

Different kinds of old “coins”

Different kinds of bei money

the earliest coins in the world ; be used in China ; more than 3000 years ago

Coins with holes

be used for the next 2,000 years ---- from 221 BC until 1916

different coins

be of different sizes ,

shapes ,

weights

metalshave different designs

coin with a famous person on it

It is common to have the head of a famous person on on side.

the name of the country

the heads of famous people

date

The value of the coin

information on the coins

discoveries of collections of coins

place : time : the number of the coins : the age of the coins :

I.

II.( the largest )

place :

the number of the coins :

the age of the coins :

England

1978

54,951

dating from 260 – 275 AD

England

200,000 silver pennies

over 600 years old

a story that a collection of coins tell us

time 1978

place an old gold-mining town in northern Australia

discovery a pot containing 32,000 Chinese metal coins

the coinsinclude examples of almost all the types of Chinese coins between the 7th century and the The late 1870s

reason thousands of Chinese work thereone of them keep a kind of bank where ……die without …….

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The earliest coins in the world were used in ______ from more than _____ years ago. Coins may be of different ________ , _______,________ , and of different metals. Usually they have different _______On the two sides. There is usually the ________ of a famous person on on side. Today the coin is _________ with the _____ of the country , the date and its value . In the past many _________ could be used for money , such as seashells , rings , bamboo sticks and so on. The earliest coins in the West were made of gold ______ with silver . Many collections of coins were _____ . The earliest collection found in _______ contained about 200,000 solver pennies that were over 600 years old.

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sizes weights shapesdesigns

headpressed

things

name

mixed

England

discovered