In the antique collection, ancient currency belongs to gold stone, and the mold that makes ancient currency belongs to miscellaneous, which is basically two different things.
So, the question is, is the value of the ancient coin high, or the value of the ancient coin mold is high?
Such a problem cannot be generalized, but it can be said that the preciousness of the ancient coin mold as a whole far exceeds that of the ancient coin.
The picture above is a mold of Wang Mang's new dynasty Daquan fifty ancient coins, also called "Qian Fan" or "Mold", made of bronze, composed of two parts of perfect symmetry, which is only half of them.
The picture above is the "Zhuangquan Forty" Qian fan collected by the Liaoning Provincial Museum, which is also the coinage of Wang Mang's new dynasty, after Wang Mang became emperor, he always liked to talk about coins, and successively carried out four currency reforms, and successively issued "Six Springs and Ten Cloths".
"Six Springs" include Koizumi Naoichi, 10 Springs, 20 Young Springs, 30 Middle Springs, 40 ZhuangQuan, and 50 Large Springs;
The "five cloths" include 100 small cloths, 200 small cloths, 300 young cloths, 400 sequential cloths, 500 poor cloths, 600 medium cloths, 700 zhuangbu, 800 dibu, 900 sub-cloths, and 1,000 large cloths.
In the folk collection, if you are lucky, you can occasionally see it, and the forty books of Zhuangquan are one of the "fifty treasures" of ancient coins, and its money fan can be called a national treasure.
At this point, some friends may have to ask, why do they always talk about The Money Fan of Wang Mang's new dynasty, but other dynasties do not have money Fan?
Of course, there are, otherwise coins can not appear out of thin air, but compared with Wang Mang's new dynasty, the quality of the Money Fan of the Qin han and pre-Qin is much worse, in addition to copper, there are lead, pottery, mud, stone and other materials.
In the history of ancient coins, there is a saying of "two saints of money and law", one of which is the Northern Song Dynasty Huizong period, and the other is the new dynasty of Wang Mang.
Next, the time came to the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, the minting process underwent changes, the sand minting method began to appear, because the mold was not needed, so it was more convenient, quickly replaced the mold fan coinage method, and the money fan gradually withdrew from the historical stage.
Qian Fan, which has both economic, literary and historical and artistic value, is the target of collection, so the copper money fan since the Han Dynasty (especially the new Dynasty of Wang Mang) is very precious and cannot be sought.
By the way, such a collection, the antique market is basically not real, but don't spend that wrong money, have the strength to go to the auction to shoot it, this article is here, bye-bye!