Note 132 — Journaal

Vgl. “In 1651, ... a decree was issued ordering the people to use coin and at the same time prohibiting them from the use of cloth as money.... Up to this time, there had always been a party opposed to the use of coin that took every opportunity to suppress its use and replace it with rice and cloth. Now this party was fast disappearing and though they once more succeeded, five years later, in causing the rescission of the order to use coin, the people by that time had become so accustomed to its use that they began to coin for themselves. ... In 1678 ... rice and cloth were deprived forever of their monetary function” (M. Ichihars, Coinage of old Korea, Transactions Korea Branch R.A.S. IV part 2, 1913, bl. 61).