| Dynasties / Periods | Dates | Coins | |||
| The New Stone Age | The early years | Ca.7000-5000.BC | |||
| The middle years | Ca.5000-2100.BC | ||||
| The late years (Xia dynasty ?) |
Ca.2100-1600.BC | ||||
| Shang | Ca.1600-1027.BC | ||||
| Yin | Ca.1400/1300-1027.BC | ||||
| Zhou | Western Zhou | Ca.1027-771.BC | |||
| Eastern Zhou | Spring and autumn (Qi, Jin, Chu, Wu, Yue) |
770-476.BC | Sword coin with a sharp tip | ||
| Warring states (Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao) |
475-221.BC | Cloth coin with a hollow head | An zang | ||
| Chu Jin cloth coin | Pei qian dang jin | ||||
| Cloth coin with a flat head and bridge legs | Liang yi jin | ||||
| Cloth coin with a flat head and bridge legs | An yi er jin | ||||
| Liang xin jin bai dang lu | |||||
| Cloth coin with sharp horns | Gong | ||||
| Cloth coin with a flat head and sharp legs | Ping zhou | ||||
| Cloth coin with a flat head and square legs | An yang | ||||
| Ping yang | |||||
| Lin | |||||
| Tao yang | |||||
| Zhai yang | |||||
| Xiang ping | |||||
| Ping yin | |||||
| Sword coin with three Chinese characters | Qi da huo | ||||
| Sword coin with a round tip | Bai ren | ||||
| Coin with a Chinese character "Yuan" | |||||
| Bright coin | Ming hua | ||||
| Half liang | Ban liang | ||||
| Qin | 221-206.BC | Half liang | Ban liang | ||
| Western Han | 206.BC-AD 8 | Wu zhu (Five zhu) | Jun guo wu zhu | ||
| Shang lin san guan wu zhu | |||||
| Xin | AD 8-23 | Cutting sword five hundred | Qi dao wu bai | ||
| Big fountain fifty | Da quan wu shi | ||||
| Small fountain deserves one | Xiao quan zhi yi | ||||
| Big cloth deserves thousand | Da bu huang qian | ||||
| Coin cloth | Huo bu | ||||
| Coin fountain | Huo quan | ||||
| Cloth fountain | Bu quan | ||||
| Eastern Han | AD 25-220 | Wu zhu (Five zhu) | Eastern Han wu zhu | ||
| Three kingdoms | Wei | AD 220-265 | |||
| Wu | AD 222-280 | Big fountain five hundred | Da quan wu bai | ||
| Big fountain deserves thousand | Da quan dang qian | ||||
| Shu | AD 221-263 | Deserves hundred of five zhu | Zhi bai wu zhu | ||
| Zhi bai wu zhu Reverse Wei | |||||
| Great peace hundred coins | Tai ping bai qian | ||||
| Jin | Western Jin | AD 265-316 | |||
| Eastern Jin | AD 317-420 | ||||
| Five tribes and sixteen kingdoms | AD 304-439 | ||||
| Southern and northern dynasties | Southern dynasties | Song | AD 420-479 | Construction of filial piety, four zhu | Xiao jian si zhu |
| Qi | AD 479-502 | ||||
| Liang | AD 502-557 | Wu zhu (Five zhu) | Liang wu zhu | ||
| Chen | AD 557-589 | Great coin six zhu | Tai huo liu zhu | ||
| Northern dynasties | Northern Wei | AD 386-534 | Great peace five zhu | Tai he wu zhu | |
| Eternal peace five zhu | Yong an wu zhu | ||||
| Eastern Wei | AD 534-550 | Eternal peace five zhu | Yong an wu zhu | ||
| Northern Qi | AD 550-577 | Usual peace five zhu | Chang ping wu zhu | ||
| Western Wei | AD 535-557 | Eternal peace five zhu | Yong an wu zhu | ||
| Northern Zhou | AD 557-581 | Three great beautiful coins of Northern Zhou | Bu quan | ||
| Wu xing da bu | |||||
| Yong tong wang guo | |||||
| Sui | AD 581-618 | Wu zhu (Five zhu) | Sui wu zhu | ||
| Tang | AD 618-907 | Opening origin, circulating treasure | Kai yuan tong bao | ||
| Approved territory by heaven's will, fountain treasure | Qian feng quan bao | ||||
| Heavenly original heavy treasure | Qian yuan zhon bao | ||||
| The first original treasure | De yi yuan bao | ||||
| Dependence on heaven, original treasure | Shun tian yuan bao | ||||
| Construction of center, circulating treasure | Jian zhong tong bao | ||||
| Five dynasties ten kingdoms | Five dynasties | Late Liang | AD 907-923 | ||
| Late Tang | AD 923-936 | ||||
| Late Jin | AD 936-946 | ||||
| Late Han | AD 947-950 | ||||
| Late Zhou | AD 951-960 | ||||
| Ten kingdoms | AD 902-979 | Tang kingdom, circulating treasure | Tang guo tong bao | ||
| Song | Northern Song | AD 960-1127 | Great conception, circulating treasure | Da guan tong bao | |
| Southern Song | AD 1127-1279 | ||||
| Liao | AD 907-1125 | ||||
| Western Xia | AD 1032-1227 | ||||
| Jin | AD 1115-1234 | Great peace, heavy treasure | Tai he zhong bao | ||
| Yuan | AD 1279-1368 | ||||
| Ming | AD 1368-1644 | Huge force, circulating treasure | Hong wu tong bao | ||
| Qing | AD 1644-1911 | Silver sycee | Pai fang ding | ||
| All richness, original treasure | Xian feng yuan bao | ||||
| The Republic of China | AD 1912- | ||||
| The People's Republic of China | AD 1949- | ||||