I don't know if the princes who love historical dramas have noticed it, but in the movies or TV series of the Republic of China, the frequency of "yellow fish" can even be equal to the exposure rate of Yuan Datou, but it is absolutely a one-dollar silver dollar in value that cannot be compared, in short, it is a heavyweight hard currency that can harvest a large exclamation as soon as it appears. So what is the price of "yellow fish"? How much value does it have in real history?
In fact, the so-called "yellow fish", that is, the use of pressing mechanism into a relatively easy to carry gold bar, there are big yellow croaker and small yellow fish, under normal circumstances, ten or more than ten gold bars are called big yellow croaker, the rest are called small yellow fish. Although the National Government strictly prohibited the use of gold and silver as currency after the introduction of legal tender, due to political darkness, turmoil in the times, and the reasons of war, the price of legal tender gold coupons seemed to soar continuously like a rocket, and in the twenties of the last century, 100 French coins were said to be able to buy a cow, and at the end of the Liberation War, they could not even buy a box of matches.
So in this kind of environment, a little bit of family naturally will not cling to a stack of banknotes that may become toilet paper, the value is strong and carrying is much easier than a sack of gold coupons, the size of the yellow fish, naturally become the first choice in the small vault of large households, of course, many merchants between the transactions also use this trusted hard currency.
Most of the standard yellow croakers of the Republic of China period were produced by the National Government in the period from 1945 to 1949, and according to statistics, after the second half of 1949, the National Government produced a total of about 1.11 million gold bars of various weights and specifications, weighing about 1.53 million taels. Among them, 10 two-fold yellow croaker, according to the calculation of 1 kilogram and 16 two before liberation, 1 two gold is about 31.25 grams, and ten two is 312.5 grams, and the color is 991.0 per thousand. The lightest 31.25 grams is one or two small yellow croakers, even if it is a strong purchasing power of Yuan Datou, thirty or forty pieces can be replaced by one, it is said that even if you buy a courtyard in Beijing at that time, take three or four large yellow croakers, even the decoration is enough.
The most sophisticated of the yellow croakers is the gold bars produced by the Shanghai Bund Central Mint in 1946, which uses imported semi-automatic gold bar pressing mills, and the gold color selected is also stronger than that produced by other factories, and the gold bar specifications and quality are also relatively rich, not only have one, two, five, twenty-two and other standards, but also five coins, two two, three two and other types.
The large yellow croaker of the Shanghai Central Mint, with a long design, is about four inches long and about five minutes wide, and looks like a small gold brick, and the front pattern of the gold bar is carved with the head of Sun Yat-sen, and is cast with the words "Made by the Central Mint", and the back is cast with the words "weight, color, number, and so on. It is said that when the Chiang family dynasty lost taiwan, it distributed a number of large and small yellow fish to the hidden agents as activity funds in an attempt to wait for the comeback of time, but these lurkers did not play much of a role except to add some creative materials to the playwrights.