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The Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty also affected the coinage industry.

Zhang Zhidong, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, entrusted the British Minister to order a complete set of coinage machines on the British ship in the 13th year of Guangxu (1887), and first cast the mechanism silver and copper coins at the Dongqian Bureau of Guangdong Province.

Afterwards, all provinces followed suit one after another, buying and making foreign machinery to cast silver and copper coins.

Many minting machines, including Guangdong Provincial Money Bureau, were ordered from the famous London Birmingham Mint Co., Ltd.

The intervention of the Great British Industry made silver coins also stained with Western colors.

On the front of the coin, the fusion of Manchu and Han cultures is clearly visible, while the back of the coin clearly shows the intervention of Western culture.

These "Guangxu Yuanbao" were minted by nineteen provincial bureaus at that time, so each province was different.

Except for the central household department, the copper coins cast by local provinces are all engraved with the name of the province on the upper edge of the front.

This batch of Guangxu Yuanbao was issued from 1898 to 1907, with a normal fineness of 89%-90%.

There are inscriptions on the front and "Made in XX Province" or "General Mint" in regular script on the top.

The value of coins minted at the bottom is such as: "Kuping seven coins and two cents", the center directly reads the four characters "Guangxu Yuanbao", and the center of the coin is "Guangxu Yuanbao" in Manchu.

On the top of the outer ring on the back of the silver coin, the words "Made in XX Province" or "General Mint" are inscribed in small English standard fonts.

Below is the English currency value, and the center of the inner circle is cast with a dragon picture, which is exquisite in appearance and unique in aesthetic style.

Although coins are small, they can also give a glimpse of social culture.

In the Beiyang period, there were already many versions of silver coins.

For example, the Beiyang 34-year long-tailed dragon version with long-tailed dragon and long cloud, this is the most common version.

In addition, in the 34th year of Beiyang, the long-tailed dragon was mismatched with the short-tailed cloud. This version is relatively rare.

Others include Beiyang 34 long tail with short cloud on the upper left, Beiyang 34 short tail dragon version with short tail dragon and short cloud, and Beiyang 34 year short tail dragon earth gold version.

Like this special silver coin, there is also the Beiyang 34-year Kaiyun version, and the cloud has an opening.

In addition, there are small characters 34, 34 are slightly smaller, and the dragon body is similar to 33 years: the flat-fronted dragon carp is slightly blurred.

Finally, there is the Beiyang 34-year version with different characters, volume 3 and flag 4, and it is a famous product of Beiyang.

Volume 3 Banner 4, the version of Roman script is less, also known as the artistic style version, ranking first in the Beiyang 34-year version.

还有北洋34卷3异4，34卷3高4，34箭3旗4，肥卷3版等等。

In 1899, the Qing government wanted to take back the coinage rights of the Beiyang Mint, and after being protected by Rong Lu and other ministers, the Beiyang Mint was retained.

Guangxu Yuanbao household one or two silver coins is also a very classic silver coin, because the household department Kuping one or two is the largest mechanism dragon silver in my country.

One or two of the household department can be divided into two versions from "person" or "entry" by the "two" writing style.

The market value of the currency is high, and the market value should be more than one million.

In the Qing Dynasty, for the convenience of circulation and exchange, many official silver coins with a denomination of one tael were minted, and most of them were cast into a one-round silver coin format with an actual weight of seven cents and two cents in Kuping.

For example, one tael of Wushen auspicious silver coins of the Qing Dynasty, one tael of Guangxu Yuanbao Kuping of the Ministry of Households, one tael of Guangxu Yuanbao Kuping made by HUB Province in the 30th year of Guangxu, one tael of Chinese and foreign Tongbao Guanping silver and so on.

These are available in two formats, the actual weight is one or two, and the circulating one-yuan type that weighs Kuping seven cents and two cents.

The one-round coin weighing Kuping seven cents and two cents has an actual weight of about 26.7g, an outer diameter of 39mm, and a thickness of 2.5mm.

This version of the casting mold is different from the real heavy flat one or two versions, and it is only passed as military pay, and the stock is rare.

The "Guangxu Yuanbao" on the front and the strokes of all the characters are hidden in dot-shaped secret marks, which does not affect the calmness of the characters and calligraphy.

The actual production quantity of this coin is not much. After the approval of Yuan Datou, a total of [-] to [-] coins were trial-produced.

This kind of silver coin is the one with the most exquisite craftsmanship, the most perfect carving and the strongest sense of relief among all the silver coins with Longyang pattern in my country, including all silver coins issued abroad.

The mirror surface of this silver coin is flat and smooth, and the inertia line of the decoration is very clear.

Line of inertia - a term in modern mechanical cartography, that is, the intersection line between plane and plane, plane and curved surface, and curved surface and curved surface.

In particular, one or two series of silver coins from Hubu are exquisitely minted, with deep mouth, grain and edge teeth, which are completely in the style of sample coins minted abroad.

As a currency to be circulated (although it is not in circulation), its anti-counterfeiting is unprecedented and unrivaled.

The patina on the surface of the coin is mellow. Even laymen who have not studied silver dollars can't put it down and are very ornamental.

This kind of one or two silver coins for the household, the regular script calligraphy is extremely exquisite and magnificent, and the frame structure is balanced and stretched, which is second to none in Longyang.

The fakes are almost the same, with the characteristics of not smooth text and blurred images.

Its characters are lost in Fengshen, and generally have low silver content, and there is no rusty patina.

It is impossible to talk about anti-counterfeiting secrets, and counterfeit and counterfeit coins are purely imitation.

In fact, none of the characters of silver and copper coins minted so far can compare with the characters of Hubu Yiliang.

The two most important points: one is that almost every stroke of the coin, as well as the decorative pattern, has added dots that have been difficult to imitate so far, which is amazing.

The second is the Panlong dragon eyes on the back, there are two clear inner-viewing dragon eyes, pointing directly at the dragon ball, which is simply the best Panlong relief work.

So far, none of the many counterfeit coins, counterfeit coin characters and casting can be expected!
This is a relatively small number of classic silver coins in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. In addition, there are some commemorative coins.

In 1897, that is, in the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, three types of silver dollars without a date, "Made in Jiangnan Province", were cast.

This kind of silver dollar is now commonly known as Lao Jiangnan, which is the standard Kuping seven cents and two cents, and the weight should be about 30 grams.

From 1898 to 1905 (the 23rd to 31st years of Guangxu), the silver coins produced by the Jiangnan Mint in eight years added the calendar of stems and branches (commonly known as New Jiangnan).

The early weight was also manufactured according to the previous standard of 30 grams, but it was not circulated;
Later, the weight was changed to 26.3-27 grams. This is the earliest province in my country to engrave the Ganzhi calendar series on silver coins.

According to the eight-year coinage statistics, the 31st year of Guangxu had the least coinage.

However, more than 200 million silver coins were also produced, and the most year was the 27th year of Guangxu.

During this year, more than 5000 million silver coins were minted.

From this, it can be seen that the production capacity of this mint is extraordinary.

In 1911 (the third year of Xuantong), the Jiangnan Mint minted a total of 70.5 one-yuan silver coins, 5.5 two-cent silver coins, and 1 one-cent silver coins.

There are two kinds of "Xuantong Yuanbao made in Jiangnan Province" one quarter four cents (two jiao) and seven cents two cents (one jiao) in existence.

These quantities are not small, but there should not be many circulating up to now.

Coupled with the large population of our country, there are also many people who like to collect. On such an average, there should be fewer people who fall into the hands of each collector.

After all, silver coins were still very valuable at that time.

Therefore, the larger number should be copper coins.