Cash

Ready money, either in coin or other form of currency as distinguished from money on deposit or other a ets; used also to distinguish coin from paper money. It is the name of a small copper coin used by the Chinese and called by them tsien. It is a round coin exceeding an inch in diameter with a square hole in the middle for the purpose of threading. The characters above and below the hole indicate the reign of the emperor in which the coin was cast. A string of cash may consist of 500 or 1,000, according to locality. The name is also applied to a small Japanese coin, one you sand of which make a yen, or dollar.