Chinese Trade in Mexico

[Anonymous]

While I am not able to answer the question posed, it did raise my curiosity and I conducted a quick search. I am not sure if they will answer your question, but they are informative and quick reads. I posted two links. The second link has a couple of charts (with pictures) that details the significance of the various chopmarks made to coins at the time. Chinese bankers and merchants stamped on coins as a defense against debased counterfeit coins. The mark signified that a coin's composition had been verified. Once that coin had been verified, it could be used for trade. Bankers and merchants paid attention to edge cuts, small chops, large chops, test marks, assay chops, number chops, banker's ink chops, paper chops, and presentation chops. Up to yesterday, I forgot that currency was stamped. It was great to see the significance of the marks and trade.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/s/silver_8-reales_of_the_mexican.aspx

http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/chopmarks/chopmarks.html
edited by malvarenga on 4/29/2015

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing.

[Anonymous]

Great thinking and discussion going on here I like the idea of the Chinese meeting the Native Americans in Mexico....after all the Vikings made their voyages here in very small boats as well.

[Anonymous]

I think it's, I have heard claims that the Vikings were the first to reach the new world, not Columbus. why not? The Chinese had the technology and a great navy force, I don't see why they could not have reached what is now Mexico.

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I'd like someone to shed light on this if possible. Years ago when I was working on a BA in Native American Studies, I came across a document referring to silver coins from China being unearthed in Mexico. It is apparent that with the exchange we learned about from Captain Wells that this is not unlikely. However, these coins were from an earlier time when China led the world economy via the silver trade. The reference was made that one of the reasons that the Spaniards wee able to make great gains was because of their discovery of gold and silver in the Western Hemisphere which enabled them to circumvent the Chinese control of trade via silver. It s well known that Chinese mariners were engaged in trade far from China in places like India, Africa and Arabia. Is it possible that they also reached the new world and traded with Native Americans in Mexico?

[Anonymous]

The Vikings did reach the East coast of North America around the year 1000 and there are archaeologiclal finds to prove it.In a place called Anse aux Meadows in Canada they discovered Viking type dwellings and by carbon dating the garbage pits located at the entrance they figured out that the longhouses were in use for about 10 years .This confirms what Icelandic sagas had said all along .Apparently the Vikings never settled America because the natives were too hostile and there was nothing to trade with. there is another Irish saga about an Irish monk, St Brendan who may have reached the American East Coast in the 6th century.there is another theory that the Chinese admiral Zheng He discovered America 70 years before Columbus.The theory belongs to Gavin Menzies,a British writer and is refuted by historians and navigators due to the lack of archaeological proof .
edited by scarjan on 5/6/2015

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