The currency of the Republic of China refers to a series of banknotes, silver dollars and other currencies circulated in China during the Republic of China period, and the currency was issued from 1912 to 1949. In 1914, the Beiyang government introduced the national currency regulations, which determined that the silver dollar was the currency of the Republic of China; in 1935, the National Government began to issue legal tender. During this period, various provinces, warlords, and separatist regimes also issued their own currencies.
According to this provision, in December 1914 and February 1915, a silver coin was minted by the General Mint and the Jiangnan Mint, and the face of the coin was engraved with the head of Yuan Shikai, commonly known as "Yuan Tou Coin" or "Yuan Datou". This new silver coin, novel in style, uniform in shape, weight, color and legal weight are not more than 3 ‰. Therefore, after the issuance, the people are willing to use it, whether it is a treaty port or a mainland, it can pass smoothly.
Yuan Datou ordinary coin above (obverse) is a five-point portrait on the left side of Yuan Shikai, cast on the "Three Years of the Republic of China" Chinese traditional, has a high historical and cultural research value, implying the ideological hope of "democracy, republicanism, constitutionalism and constitutional monarchy".
Below (on the back) is the pattern of Jiahe, which was called the strange grass that grew in ancient times, and the ancients took it as an auspicious sign. It also refers to the growing and vigorous rice. The Book of The Fate of the Micro Sons is published: "Uncle Tang has obtained he, and the mu is the same, and he offers the sons of heaven." Minting on the coin implies that the country attaches importance to nongsang and takes the people's livelihood as the basis; its other idea takes the harmonic sound of its home and the meaning of "home and all things"; the rulers on the coinage have the vision of Guotai Min'an and auspicious ruyi, and the folk collection, which means the auspicious treasure of "home and all things", so it has a high collection and research value.
When the Republic of China was founded, because the currency system had not yet been established, except for Sichuan to re-mint the Great Han silver coins, fujian to re-mint the Chinese yuanbao, most of the major mints still used the former Qing steel mold to mint silver coins for circulation needs. Due to the chaos of the currency system, Chen Jintao, minister of finance of the Provisional Government, submitted a letter to President Sun Yat-sen on March 11 of the first year of the Republic of China, minting 10 million yuan of commemorative silver coins for rectification, which are commonly known as "small heads".
At that time, the number of Sun Yat-sen founding commemorative coins was extremely limited, especially the six-pointed star was now extremely sparse and had a high preservation value, and at the end of 2015, at an auction coin auction in Hong Kong, a well-preserved Sun Yat-sen founding commemorative coin was finally hammered at 5 million yuan after many rounds of bidding. These two commemorative coins of sun yat-sen's founding are in perfect condition, which is of great historical significance and collection value. It is a very rare and excellent collection.