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Chapter 1752 Guangxu Longyang
There are many forms of silver in the Song Dynasty, the most common is ingots, which come in several sizes.

Large ingots weigh 50 taels, while small ingots vary in weight, such as 25 taels, 12 taels, seven taels, and three taels.

The two ends of the large ingots are mostly arc-shaped, waist-shaped, with chiseled characters on them, recording the names of places, uses, weights, officials, and craftsmen.

Silver ingots in the Song Dynasty have been unearthed frequently. In 1955, 293 silver ingots were unearthed in Shizhai Mountain, HS City, Beihu Lake, ranging in size and weighing about 3400 taels in total.

In 1958, 5 pieces were also unearthed in the BLZQ of Zhaowuda League in Inner Mongolia.

In addition, the court of the Song Dynasty also minted a lot of gold and silver coins, which were used as money for funerals, rewards and gifts, and money for spreading accounts or money for laundering children when getting married.

The "Qingyuan Tongbao" silver coins unearthed in Changsha, Nanhu Lake and the "Taiping Tongbao" silver coins handed down from generation to generation belong to this category.

There are also many silver coins in the Jin Dynasty. For example, in the second year of Zhang Zong Cheng'an (1197), the silver coins of "Cheng'an Baohuo" were minted.

From one to twelve, it is divided into 5 grades, and every two discounts are two guan.

Also, this is the beginning of legal count silver coins in our country.

In the Jin Dynasty, the folks mostly used silver to discuss prices, and the transactions were all in silver.

In 1981 and 1985, 5 silver ingots of "Cheng'an Baohuo" of the Jin Dynasty were discovered in Heilong Province, each with a denomination of one or two halves and a weight of 59.3 grams.

The handwriting, treasury charge, and shape of this gold-generation silver coin are almost identical.

In addition, silver ingots from Zhenglong, Dading and Fenghe years have also been found.

The role of silver currency in the Yuan Dynasty is developing day by day.

At this time, not only loans, salaries, royal rewards, meritorious service, labor remuneration, bulk transactions and taxes were used in silver, but prices were also expressed in silver.

Even the reserve funds for issuing banknotes are made of silver, with silver as the standard.

During this period, silver had established its currency status and became one of the folk currencies in the Yuan Dynasty.

Its form is still mainly ingots, which are in the shape of flat weights, and the large one is 50 taels.

There are many place names, Jianna, Kushi, Kufu, Tijusi, Chengzi, silversmith and other names engraved on it.

From the third year of Zhiyuan (1266), silver ingots were called "Yuanbao".

In addition, in the Yuan Dynasty, silver coins such as "Dachao Tongbao", "Zhiyuan Tongbao", "Yuanzhen Tongbao" and a kind of offering money made by temples were also minted.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially after Yingzong ascended the throne (1436), silver had already embodied the two basic monetary functions of value measure and means of circulation.

During the Jiajing period, the use of silver was more common. At that time, land tax, corvee, commercial tax, salt tax, customs duty and other taxes were all converted into silver to collect official salaries and treasury expenditures were also paid in silver.

In the late Ming Dynasty, not only large transactions were made with silver, but even small businesses were traded with broken silver.

At this time, silver finally supplanted paper money and replaced copper coins as the main currency in circulation.

During this period, a currency system with silver as the mainstay and copper coins as the supplement was formed.

The silver coins in the Ming Dynasty were still dominated by silver ingots. The largest ingot weighed 500 taels, and the general ingot still weighed 50 taels. There were also various small silver ingots and broken silver taels.

The name of the casting place, weight and craftsman's name are cast and printed on the big ingot.

On the silver coins of small ingots, sometimes the name of the year and the name of the place are printed.

In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, silver coins of different sizes were cast.

Such as "Yongle Tongbao", "Wanli Tongbao", "Tianqi Tongbao", and various "mine silver" in the Wanli period.

There are many silver ingots of various sizes in the Ming Dynasty that have been handed down and unearthed.

In the Qing Dynasty, the silver tael had become the legal standard currency, and the silver tael had a primary and auxiliary relationship with money making.

The status of the silver tael as the standard currency was not abolished until 1933 when the tael was abolished and the yuan was replaced.

There are many kinds of names and forms of silver coins in the Qing Dynasty, and silver coins in various places also have their own names.

It can be roughly divided into four types. The first type is Yuanbao, commonly known as Baoyin, which is horseshoe-shaped and weighs 4 taels;
The second type is the middle ingot, which is mostly hammer-shaped and weighs about ten taels, also known as small ingots;

The third type is the small 锞 or 锞子, shaped like steamed buns, weighing one or two liang to three or five liang, also called small ingot;

The fourth type is scattered silver, which has names such as drop beads and blessing beads. The weight is less than one tael, and the fineness can reach 9.6-9.64%.

Then there are silver coins in the Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the influx of foreign silver coins, the market was flooded.

In order to boycott the foreign currency, restore the rights and interests, and make up for the shortage of silver and money, it began to imitate and cast silver yuan.

In the Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu dynasties, in Hujian, Wanwan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Dahai, Nanhu and other provinces, various styles of "silver cakes" and "silver coins" were cast successively.

In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), Lingji Province first tried to cast silver coins with a new type of machine, called "Changping", which was soon abolished and not officially used.

During the fourteenth and fifth years of Guangxu (1888-1889), Zhang Zhidong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was ordered to set up a money bureau in Guangdong Province, purchase machines, and cast "Longyang".

Seeing that it was profitable, all provinces followed suit one after another. They all set up factories one after another and built their own "Longyang" in their own provinces.

In the second year of Xuantong (1910), the "Regulations on the Currency System" was promulgated, stipulating that the silver dollar is the standard currency, and the unit is the circle.

The silver round face of the Qing Dynasty has the words "Guangxu Yuanbao", "Xuantong Yuanbao" or "Great Qing Silver Coin", and the back is engraved with a dragon pattern.

Each heavy Kuping is seven cents and two cents, containing 9.6-9.7% pure silver.

It is counted and used in circulation. According to statistics, although the total number of silver coins cast in the late Qing Dynasty reached 2.8 million, most of them were made by the people.

Looking at the last silver dollar, a smile appeared on Chen Wenzhe's face. This time, he gained a lot.

This last silver dollar should be the most exquisite ancient coin.

It is a "Guangxu Yuanbao", the earliest machine-made currency in my country, and one of the top ten honorary products in modern machine-made coins in my country, commonly known as "Longyang".

It is named after the dragon pattern on the back of the coin, which has important practical and historical significance.

In addition to factors such as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the wars in the Republic of China, some of the more precious Guangxu Yuanbao silver dollar varieties are rare in existence and have high collection value.

Therefore, even if there are many silver dollars in the Qing Dynasty that have been handed down to the present, there are still many collectors flocking to them and vying to raise their prices.

Especially this kind of Guangxu Yuanbao made by Beiyang, this is a special edition: Beiyang 34-year-old long-tailed dragon version with long-tailed dragon and long cloud.

Coin collections are generally divided into three categories: banknotes, gold and silver commemorative coins and ancient coins.

The silver dollar in ancient coins has always been a hot spot.

Because the silver dollar is precious in material and has high artistic value.

Beiyang Machinery Bureau first minted silver coins in the 15th year of Guangxu, with a face value of only "one yuan".

Until the 22nd year of Guangxu, the circulation of silver coins began to be minted.

"Made by the Beiyang Machinery Bureau in the 22nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty", there are five denominations: "one yuan", "five jiao", "two jiao", "one jiao" and "half jiao".

It is my country's set of silver coins with yuan as the unit.

In July 1903, it was proposed that silver coins should be manufactured exclusively by the General Mint, and Nanyang (Jiangnan), Beiyang, Guangdong Province, and Beihu Bureaus were reserved as branch factories.

This kind of silver coin is precious in material and high in artistic value. It is made of precious metal or silver alloy.

The most important thing is that it is beautifully made, exquisite in design, elegant in writing, rich in content, brilliant in silver, and pleasant in appearance.

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