Are there examples of marking coins to know how they are used?

I’ve seen in a video game (Empire: Dawn of the modern world) that the king of Korea was putting mark on some coins to have a better idea of how this money is spent (in this story, it is used to discover a traitor).

Is it true?

Or does it have similarity (true) with the real history (anywhere else in the world)?

I’m searching an "old" example, let say before 1600 AD.