In recent years, with the continuous heating up of the collection fever, in the antique market, the collection investment of ancient coins is attracting the majority of investment enthusiasts with its unique charm. Coin auctions around the world also often spread the news that the auction prices of rare ancient coins have reached new highs, and all kinds of people and horses in the society and various floating funds also want to participate in the collection and investment of ancient coins. The number of coins in the antique market determines their price, "things are rare and expensive"; it depends on whether the age is long, the length of circulation time, but also the amount of existence. In the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), the Hubei Silver Dollar Bureau cast four editions of "Guangxu 30 years hubei province made great Qing silver coins Kuping one or two".
At that time, the "Hou Party" (led by Empress Dowager Cixi), which advocated "two" as the silver coin unit, and the "Imperial Party" (led by the Guangxu Emperor) who advocated the "circle" as the silver coin unit, were holding their own views on the "two" or "circle" of the silver coin.
Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang at the time, who had rich political wisdom, was well aware of the inconvenience of "one or two silver coins" in actual circulation and use and the convenience of "one round silver coins", and opened a four-edition Guangxu Thirty-Year Great Qing Silver Coin in Hubei Province at the Hubei Provincial Silver Dollar Bureau. The curved coin on the front of this coin is engraved with nine Chinese characters of "Guangxu Thirty Years Made in Hubei Province", which is the official standard italic script of the Great Qing Dynasty (the same as the one or two coin fonts created by the Fengtian Machine Bureau in the twenty-fifth year of the Great Qing Dynasty, and there are other mechanism coins that are also for this standard font, so I will not list them all)," and the four Chinese characters of "Great Qing Silver Coin" engraved in the middle ring bead circle (the bead circle has 92 round beads, and the bead spacing layout is not very tight), and the font is larger.
The four Chinese characters "Kuping One or Two" are engraved between the lower coin paths, and from this point of view, these Chinese characters are also composed of three different groups of fonts. The back of the coin has a clear bead ring on the reverse of the coin, whether it is a pattern or in Chinese, English and Manchu, and has many different features; the silver cake brush marks are clear, and there are many gossamer-like vertical and horizontal positioning line segments.
13 English characters of "HU-PEH PROVINCE" are engraved on the upper coin road. The casting is exquisite, the bottom of the plate is flat, and it is a uniform one-color paste, which is quite well preserved. It is very collectible; recently our company collected a sichuan copper coin with good quality: compared with the founding commemorative coin of Sun Statue and the silver dollar of Yuan Statue, the circulation range of Sichuan copper coins made by the military government is narrow, and the circulation and survival volume naturally cannot be compared with the first two.
For this reason, fewer people are exposed to Sichuan and fewer researchers. However, this does not mean that the research value and market value of Chuanyang are not high, and the economic laws and collections have always been based on the law of "scarce things are precious" as the standard. As a special currency of a special historical period and local government, the military government currency has the dual functions of military currency and civilian currency, is a product of history, has irreplaceable cultural relics value, and is a witness of history. This Sichuan copper coin is minted with a bead ring on the front, and the four characters inside the bead circle are "Sichuan copper coin". The central motif is a delicate hibiscus flower, symbolizing the City of Rongcheng. The upper ring of the bead circle is the land, and the lower edge is the value of the currency. The central motif on the back of the coin is a large seal "Han" character, which represents the meaning of the new government Han and highlights the meaning of expelling Tartar slaves. There are eighteen small circles around the word "Han", symbolizing the eighteen provinces that responded to the Xinhai Revolution. The upper edge is cast in age. The most rare thing about this coin is that the coin material contains gold, shining golden light in the sun, showing a thick and old-fashioned pulp, the color is very natural, full of traces of age and a strong sense of historical precipitation, with a high collection value and investment value.
In the second year of Xuantong (1910), in order to unify the national currency system, the Qing government promulgated the "Currency System Regulations" in April, determining that the name of the national currency unit was "yuan", with silver as the standard, one yuan as the main currency, and four kinds of copper coins of one, five, one and two cents as auxiliary coins. The General Mint specially commissioned the Mint in Vienna, Austria to design a mold, in which the copper auxiliary coins, except for a short circulation of one centimeter, are all specimen coins, and the remaining quantities are rare, with thick and thin blanks and a variety of copper specimens. The center of the front of the copper dollar is the pattern of the dragon, surrounded by a small bead circle, and the four Chinese characters of the "Great Qing Copper Coin" are respectively written on the upper and lower left and right; the center of the reverse side is the wheat ear pattern of the face value, and the small bead circle surrounds the wheat ear pattern and the denomination, and the upper plutonium is "Xuantong Nianzuo" Four Chinese characters, and the text below is the amount of the corner of the silver coin exchanged. Therefore, this set of coins is intact and has a high collectible value, worth 3.77 million.