布币是我国最早的金属货币之一,布币形似铲,由仿农具除草工具“镩”制成,镈与布音相近,而简称为“布”。空首布币则是最早出现的货币之一,币首中空、平肩、弧足,币质为青铜,尺寸和重量大小不一,始大而渐小,流行于西、东周时期,集中于洛阳周围地区。由于殷遗民迁至洛阳地区,殷人从事经商,故洛阳经济繁荣,空首布应是殷人商品交换最初使用的货币。据称空首布为周景王时期铸行,约在公元前524年。大型空首布多无文字,小型者多有文字和符 Cloth coin is one of the earliest metal currency in our country. Cloth coin is similar to shovel, made of weeding tool weeding tool, “镩”, 镈 and cloth sound similar, but abbreviated as “cloth”. Empty first cloth currency is one of the earliest currency, the first hollow, flat shoulder, arc foot, the currency is bronze, size and weight of different sizes, beginning large and small, popular in the West, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, focused on Around Luoyang. Due to the relocation of Yin Zhuangs to Luoyang, Yin engaged in business, so Luoyang enjoyed a prosperous economy. The empty cloth should be the currency originally used by Yin exchangers. It is said that the first empty cloth for King Zhou Jing casting line, about 524 BC. Large empty first cloth more no text, small people and more characters and symbols