P.1899 - §5 In all this the enemies of Jesus were
defeated since it was a well-known ruling of the Sanhedrin, made for the
guidance of the Jews dispersed among the gentile nations, that the "right
of coinage carried with it the right to levy taxes."
Ancient Chinese coins.
Chinese knife money.
Wang Mang destroyed Western Han (206 BC - AD 9) and built a new country,
Xin (AD 9 - 24), but it was soon replaced by Eastern Han (AD 24 - 220).