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The history of the Baohe Bureau in minting coins in the Qing Dynasty

Today share Henan in the Qing government rule, it minted a situation of coins, Henan minted Qing Dynasty coins from the fourth year of Shunzhi, that is to say, Shunzhi four years in Henan Kaifeng Province set up a minting bureau called Kaifeng Fu Bureau, because six years ago the nearby Huaiqing has more copper resources and coal resources, so the Kaifeng Fu Minting Bureau directly moved to Huaiqing Province, at that time was set up a total of 18 furnaces for minting money, the coins minted are Shunzhi Tongbao Manhan River, there is shunzhi Tongbao back word river.

The history of the Baohe Bureau in minting coins in the Qing Dynasty
The history of the Baohe Bureau in minting coins in the Qing Dynasty

In the Kangxi period, the mint of Henan began to stop and open again, and the coins minted at that time were also the Manhan River of Kangxi Tongbao, and in the seventh year of Yongzheng, Huaiqing Province, Henan Province began to mint Yongzheng coins, that is to say, Yongzheng did not mint for one to six years, from seven years to mint the Manhan River, to nine years it stopped, a total of more than two years of minting, so the existence of Yongzheng Tongbao's Baohe Bureau is still relatively small.

The history of the Baohe Bureau in minting coins in the Qing Dynasty

To Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang three dynasties Baohe Bureau also did not mint money, so we can not find Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang Baohe Bureau coins, to Xianfeng four years when the Baohe Bureau began to mint when thousands, when five hundred, when hundred, when fifty, when ten grades of big money, basically did not mint small money, so everyone now look at the Xianfeng Tong Baby River Bureau copper coins, generally are trial minted coins, so it is very small, but the Baohe Bureau's iron tongs are still relatively many, I am talking about small flat money.

The history of the Baohe Bureau in minting coins in the Qing Dynasty

Because it is from Xianfeng four years in October in the vicinity of Hebei, began to recruit money craftsmen, buy iron resources to build a coinage furnace, began to mint iron money, so Xianfeng Tongbao's small flat money Baohe Bureau iron money is still relatively much, to Guangxu 24 Baohe Bureau on the start of construction, when a total of ten furnaces began to mint money, so it minted a lot of money, you can also pay attention to the Guangxu Tong Baby River Bureau's back star, back moon, back mark of the existence is very large, to the last year of Guangxu began to stop minting Since then, the Baohe Bureau has withdrawn from the stage of history and began to mint the copper dollars and copper plates of the Baohe Bureau, which is the history of the Henan Baohe Bureau minting coins in the Qing Dynasty.

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