For friends who know ancient coins, the 10 kinds of ming dynasty year number money are not strange to think, and it seems not difficult to get all of them together, but if you want to ask which of them is the most expensive? The most difficult to collect, there is no doubt that longqing's year number money, why is longqingbao's more expensive? What is so different about this little flat money? Xiaobian will interpret it in detail.
Before that, it is necessary to talk about the Longqing Emperor first. Friends who know history may remember the "Longqing Switch", the opening of treaty ports, the permission to foreign trade, and the complete eradication of the space for the existence of the Wokou, other than that, it seems that there is nothing more impressive.
Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaiyuan, Shangcheng Jiajing, Xiaqi Wanli, this previous and later, respectively, the first and second emperors of the Ming Dynasty, somewhat similar to the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, sandwiched between the two long years, the reign time is also significantly less than the Qing Dynasty, plus there is no harem drama to publicize, so for many people, Longqing does not seem to have any sense of existence.
The political situation in the Ming Dynasty was relatively stable, and the Longqing switch brought a prosperous economy to Zhu Zaiyuan. His father was the famous Jiajing Emperor who had not been in the dynasty for a long time, Jiajing reigned for too long, and by the time the Longqing Emperor took the throne, he was not young, and Zhu Zaiyuan was very capable of tossing and turning, and died within a few years, reigning for only 6 years.
Longqing Tongbao became the most expensive year-old money in the Ming Dynasty, which is well deserved. At that time, the official currency was mainly Mingbao banknotes, and copper coins were only used as a supplement, so many emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not mint their own era coins. The same is true of the Longqing Emperor, in the first few years of his reign, he did not expect to mint the year number money, and later for some reasons, he began to mint the year number money, the real time of minting money was less than 2 years, and the total amount minted was only 20,000 yuan.
Compared with the peak period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual amount of copper coin minting is as high as several million, and the mere 20,000 yuan is also too shabby, coupled with the wear, loss, and reforging in the later circulation process, and the Longqing Nian number money that has finally survived to this day is becoming less and less.
During Longqing's reign, the economic situation of the Ming Dynasty was relatively good, and the minting of copper coins was also relatively exquisite. Longqing Tongbao is generally small flat money, the diameter of the coin is 23-25 mm, the weight is around 4 grams, the money is read directly, the casting is exquisite, the back is generally wordless, and the production is unconventional.
It should be noted that china has long used bronze to cast copper coins in ancient times, and after the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, brass was used as the mainstream copper coin material, coupled with the so-called "gold back fire paint" technology, which made the appearance of Longqing Tongbao copper coins relatively high.
At that time, the Mingbao banknotes were parallel to the copper coins, half of the official Feng Lu issued was bao banknotes, half were copper coins, Longqing Tongbao was also issued as an official' Feng Lu, to a certain extent, it was necessary to use a better appearance to show the royal prestige, if the original minting purpose of Longqing Tongbao was for market circulation, I am afraid that it would not be minted with such a high value of the year money.
At the beginning of this year, the price of various ancient coins ushered in a wave of small increases, following the principle of rare things being precious, and the price of Longqing Tongbao has also increased. At present, some ordinary Longqing Tongbao Xiaoping money, there is soil rust or word mouth adhesion, such a price is more than 3000 yuan, the standard Longqing Tongbao Xiaoping money, the price is more than 5000 yuan, and the good version, there is no flowing copper on the coin, and the money mouth does not have any adhesion, the price is more than 10,000 yuan. Faced with an increasingly clear market outlook, did you have the foresight to collect such a coin?