chichibu

Updated: May 26, 2025

All this happened between the years 690 and 708, but the discovery of copper in the latter year in Chichibu was on comparatively the largest scale, and may be said to have given the first really substantial impetus to coining. For some unrecorded reason silver pieces were struck first and were followed by copper a few months later.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era