Today we talk about the minting method of ancient Chinese coins, we look at the three coins in the picture, these three coins are half two coins pre-Qin Warring States period Qin dynasty coins, Kangxi Tongbao is the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period coins, ten is the mechanism coin republic of china coin, it seems that the wind horse cattle are not in harmony, in fact, it is really the wind horse cattle do not match, today take out these three coins to mainly talk about the evolution of the minting method of ancient Chinese coins.
First of all, we should understand that China is one of the earliest countries in the world to use metal coinage, as early as the Shang Zhou Dynasty has begun the minting of bronze coins, and now through some archaeological discoveries of the earliest bronze coins, that is, the minted copper shells were minted in the late Shang Dynasty, a long time earlier than the half two coins, the copper shells at that time there are half two coins in the pre-Qin period that we want to talk about today, its minting method is the most quaint and most traditional minting method is the Fan casting method, what is the Fan casting method?
Fan minting method is to use this mud model, copper model or stone model to mint money, simply put, is to pour liquid metal into a mold with the same shape of the coin, and then after it cools to form a coin, fan minting method of minting metal coins or metal utensils when it has a process.
The first mold to make is to make a model.
The second point is to pour liquid metal into the van.
The third is natural cooling.
The fourth is to take out the cast shapes that are poured into it, some may be coins, some may be bronzes, and so on.
The fifth is processing, fine processing, processing in the process of fine treatment may grind the side road, carry out a simple trimming, polishing the outer edge and the inner Guo process in the half two coins minting time is not, the time of appearance is late, is the round money appeared later, that is, appeared in the Western Han Dynasty Of Han Wu Emperor's three baht money, stereotyped and is the Han Wu Emperor when the red five baht, and then it has been continued, and some of the later money will basically carry out the trimming of the side road and the mouth.
The second is that turning sand to cast money is like Kangxi Tongbao, what period did sand casting money appear in? First of all, we understand the Fan minting money it began to appear from the Shang Zhou, and then continued to the Sui and Tang dynasties, turning sand minting money is what we call the mother money sand casting method, it is about from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the early Qing Dynasty, from the current research and mastery of the physical analysis, as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties when the sand casting method has appeared and used, but to the five generations and ten kingdoms when there are still some regions, still using the Fan minting process for minting money, I believe you can also understand whether it is at that time or now, There are always some areas that are backward in this advanced area, so the complete popularization is still after the Tang Dynasty.
The third is the money of ten texts, this is the forging and minting of coins, which is imported from the West, forging and minting coins began at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and then until the Republic of China has been used until now, the coins we are minting now are also a minting method that is improved later by forging and minting, the specific I am not very clear, if you are clear, welcome to leave a message in the comment area to share.