Numismatist Werner Burger with a part of his collection. Picture: Xiaomei Chen
Coin stash that puts new spin on China’s 100 years of humiliation
Inside a nondescript Hong Kong warehouse sit seven tons of Qing dynasty coins – proof, their owner says, that it was the imperial monetary system, not the opium trade, that brought China low in the 19th century
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China economy
Numismatist Werner Burger with a part of his collection. Picture: Xiaomei Chen