It was worth one string of 1,000 coins, and counterfeiting was punishable by death.
It's interrupted occasionally by what sounds like glass falling, the pluck of a musical string, the jingle of coins, or a rev of cartoon engines.
Only seven prefectures (including Yanjing) would be returned to the Song, and the Song would pay an annual indemnity of 300,000 packs of silk and 200,000 taels of silver to the Jin, as well as a one-time payment of one million strings of copper coins to compensate the Jurchens for the tax revenue they would have earned had they not returned the prefectures.
In the 1630s a string of one thousand copper coins equaled an ounce of silver; by 1640 that sum could fetch half an ounce; and, by 1643 only one-third of an ounce.
An example of the importance of island control would be the infamous String of Pearls, a term coined by geopolitics experts at Booz Allen to describe the American military island bases located all around mainland Asia.
Junior is stalked by a strange-looking, divinely patient detective named Thomas Vanadium, whom Mr. Koontz embroils in a homage to "Psycho" and a string of paranormal magic tricks involving coins.
Ferguson is associated with coining a string of soccer slang terms, including "hairdryer treatment" to describe the way he dealt with wayward players and sports journalists.
(A wonderful effect was the introduction of a coin under a string of the piano for the final movement, creating a gong effect that was like a duet with the regular notes).
Chinese merchants left behind piles of coins with a hole in the center, which the Balinese have tied together with string to create sculptures of deities.
"There are piles of coins".
Suggestive of the busy handling of coins.
