page_title: Cash coins in art
section_title: Bank logos
hierarchical_section_title: Cash coins in art / Bank logos
caption_attribution_description: English: An office of the Vietinbank in the Hai Ba Trung District.
context_page_description: Cash coins are a type of historical Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese coin design that was the main basic design for the Chinese cash, Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and Vietnamese văn currencies. The cash coin became the main standard currency of China in 221 BC with the Ban Liang and would produced until 1912 AD there with the Minguo Tongbao, the last series of cash coins produced in the world were the French Indochinese Bảo Đại Thông Bảo during the 1940s. Cash coins are round coins with a square centre hole. It is commonly believed that the early round coins of the Warring States period resembled the ancient jade circles which symbolised the supposed round shape of the sky, while the centre hole in this analogy is said to represent the planet earth. The body of these early round coins was called their "flesh" and the central hole was known as "the good".
  While cash coins are no longer produced as official currency today, they remain a common motif in the countries where they once circulated and among the diaspora of those communities.
context_section_description: Several logos of Chinese banks incorporate cash coins into their designs, this is because cash coins have become a cultural icon in China, and the cash coin motif has been incorporated in the logo design of a number of major banks. Some banks also incorporate other forms of ancient Chinese coinage into the designs of their emblems, for example the logo of the People's Bank of China is based on spade money from the Warring States Period.
  The logo of the Bank of China includes in its design the archetypal cash coin motif. It changes the design by instead of incorporating a simple square centre hole, it uses a stylised version of the Chinese character "中" (Zhōng, meaning "middle" or "centre") as an abbreviation for "中國" (Zhōngguó, "central state").
  The logo of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China uses the standard cash coin motif, but instead of having a square centre hole, it uses a stylised version of the Chinese character "工", which translates into English as "commercial". The stylised centre can also be interpreted as being a capital version of the Latin letter "I", representing the English word "industrial". The "centre hole" of the cash coin motif of the logo therefore represents the essence of the bank's name both in English and in Mandarin, the "Industrial and Commercial Bank of China".
  The logo of the China Construction Bank incorporates two Chinese cash coins, which are placed side-by-side with a slight overlap, this overlap gives the image a three-dimensional effect. Furthermore, small piece of the circular design of the cash coins has been removed so that they resemble two of the Latin letter "C". The two "C's" in this design stand for the English name of the bank, "China Construction".
  The logo of the Huaxia Bank incporates the cash coin design by using white space rather than colouring it in. The white space surrounds a gray square and is enclosed by an auspicious red border based on a "jade dragon" from the Hongshan Culture.
  The logos of a number of Vietnamese banks incorporate cash coin designs, these include the logos of the VietinBank, National Citizen Bank (Ngân Hàng Quốc Dân), Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank, and SeABank among others.
caption: A VietinBank branch office in the Trưng Sisters District, Hanoi. Its logo is shaped like a Vietnamese cash coin.
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