Do you know Bronzes was an equivalent to Money?

Do you know that Bronze was an equivalent form of money?

Why not? If gold material even until today is a form of money.
certainly even silver; titinium; brass, copper ; iron and bronze materials can still be sold off to get back CASH/money.

Owing a huge vast of bronze vessels during those days in the period of Shang, Zhou,Han and Qin dynasties was an equivalent form of money.
Investment in buying bronze and other metal materials to forge out these bronze vessels are only those rich kings and dukes and marquis could afford. Eventually, smaller piece also made from bronze material into a form of small spade shape; small knife shape and small rounded shape were used also as a form of money.
Today coins were also made with a mxiture of bronze and nickel or brass.
And some used copper or aluminium.
And some used Gold and Silver and Titinium.
Ancient China also used gold and silver materials to made vessels products but because of limited of gold and silver. Bronze and Copper materials were the best choice.

Owing a large quantity of these bronze vessels was a symbol of power and authority and wealth of a person wealth.

As far as I know, Ancient China's era seem to have acquired alot of these raw bronze materials to made these bronze vessels. Many of these bronze vessels were unearthened when modern China today started to convert many of those lands into commerical and residential purpose.

Today these bronze vessels unearthen and once again able to see the light, these bronze vessels become a very hot collection items for antique collectors worldwide.

If you want to see large collection of these bronze vessels that displayed for public viewing, you can visit at a few museums like : Shanghai Museum; BeiJing Museum and Taiwan-Museum.

Very sorry, though I have several collection, unfortunately, I display some of these bronze vessels for " My eyes" and " My guests " only.
However, I will up-load my collection some day.
I am too lazy to snap some digital photos yet.
May try to snap whenever I take vacation leave.