 One of the reasons, again, that this coin circulated for several years into the succeeding dynasty was, so the chroniclers say, the fact that the character "quan" () in the inscription consisted of the two component parts "bai" () and "shui" (), which happened to be the name of the village, Bai Shui in Henan, in which the Emperor Guang Wu, who founded the Eastern Han, was born.This circumstance lent a charm to this coin and prolonged its time of circulation.The Huo Quan did indeed continue to be minted after the death of Wang Mang – a mould dated AD 40 is known.