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Arcane Relics: Asia’s Vanished Currencies
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Across
  • 1. Fractional Chinese currency now only a historic relic in numismatics.
  • 2. Historical currency variant linked to regional Asian tribes.
  • 4. Collective term for minting, also a defunct term applied to ancient Asian currencies.
  • 6. Japan's currency predecessor, phased out in the Meiji era in favor of modernization.
  • 8. Nepalese silver coin once common in Himalayan trade.
  • 10. Historic Mongolian coin with a name echoing old trade routes.
  • 12. Traditional Chinese silver weight-turned-currency.
  • 14. Ancient Korean brass coin, short and cryptic in name.
  • 16. Ottoman-era currency tied to land tenure, lost in modern reforms.
Down
  • 3. Vietnamese currency reinvented, but its extinct precursor forms linger.
  • 5. Old Russian monetary fractional coin influencing Asian trade zones.
  • 7. French colonial coin, a cognate with Turkish currency units.
  • 9. Chinese silver weight and currency unit, obsolete but historically significant.
  • 11. Subunit of currency in historic South Indian mints.
  • 13. Bengali currency term with roots in silver coinage, now archaic.
  • 15. Polynesian island currency, a coin transcending Asia’s edges.
  • 17. Shared by many Asian realms, this older form is now largely obsolete in its original princely states.
  • 18. Indian currency measured in weight and denomination, no longer current.
  • 19. Tiny Filipino cent denomination of a currency long replaced.
  • 20. Former currency unit, still echoed in Gulf dialects, but once widespread in Persia.

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