The Ming Dynasty Tianqi Tongbao Coin is a copper coin minted by Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty during the Tianqi period, which is an important period in the history of Ming Dynasty coins. In the first year of the Apocalypse, Taichang money was minted. In the first year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Xizong re-minted his father Guangzong's year name "Taichang Tongbao" money, which was minted in advance in August of that year, and then cast the Tianqi Tongbao Money, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, he set up the Hubu Baoquan Bureau, known as "Qian Fa Tang", and from then on, the head of the Household Department minted the money.
Three years after the Apocalypse (1623), due to the dictatorship of Eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs, Emperor Xizong, who loved carpentry work, rarely pro-government, resulting in political corruption and financial deficits, coupled with the need to resist the continuous attacks of Houjin in the north, requiring a lot of military expenditure, so a large amount of money was minted, and a large number of money stoves were set up in various places, and the number was very large. "When it is, the beginning is all over the world, and the money and interest are heavy", when the apocalypse set up 156 furnaces in the country to cast the "Apocalypse Tongbao", the annual casting volume reached more than 2 million, so it led to the variety of Apocalypse money seen today, and the good and bad were uneven. The complex period of the Ming Dynasty's money system, that is, starting from the Wanli Dynasty, experienced the beginning of the Expansion of the Apocalypse Dynasty, and became uncontrollable to the Chongzhen Dynasty.
According to today's numismatic studies and physical discoveries, the Ming Dynasty Apocalypse Tongbao coins have a discount value of Xiaoping, folded two, folded thirteen and so on. The back not only has a light curtain, but also has many varieties such as the Star Moon Text, Ji Zhong, Ji Shi, Ji Bureau, Ji Di and so on. Judging from the analysis of the face text, at that time, the thirteen political departments of the whole country, the Southern Zhili (Nanjing) and the Northern Zhili (Beijing) were likely to have almost all minted Tianqi Tongbao coins. Among them, in Xiaoping Qian, there are back work (Figure 1, diameter 26.2 mm, weight 4.2 grams), Household, Xin, Yuan, Zhejiang, Yun, Zhen, Beijing, Mizi and other Discipline Bureau Jidi Money. Mr. Tang Shifu explained in the "Ancient Chinese Coins": Gong and Hu refer to the two parts of the work and household, Beijing is Nanjing, Zhejiang refers to Zhejiang, Yun refers to Yunnan, the new is the guide, the North New Factory, the secret refers to Miyun, the town refers to Jizhen, and the hospital is the Inspectorate.
In addition, among the heavy discipliners, such as one dollar, one dollar and one cent, one dollar and two cents, and the new one dollar and one cent, one dollar and two cents are extremely rare. Usually seen back work, back home money, back work, upper household production is more refined (generally about 25 to 26 mm), there are money collectors and researchers believe that it is the North Directly under the Ministry of Works and households. Due to the slightly smaller diameter of the back worker, the workman on the back is exquisitely made but different from the back worker, and most of the Izumi friends believe that it is likely to be cast by Nan Zhili. Consulting the "Daming Spring Spectrum" will carry the Apocalypse Tongbao back to the salary, according to the shape system is divided into regular work, retired work, senior worker, flat worker, stacking work, reverse work and many other editions. Due to historical reasons, due to the lack of a large number of systematic direct documents in the current study of Ming Qian, the exact determination of the minting place is not completely clear.
The author recently stumbled upon a different salary from the ordinary Apocalypse Tongbao (Figure 2), the lime pit mouth of this money, 25.4 mm in diameter, weighing 3.81 grams, the money is read directly, wrapped in mottled red spots, vigorous and powerful fonts, the entire coin is in a straightforward state. Careful comparison with the general back of the "work" money is different, is that the back of the product to wear the "work" word is not only huge, the third horizontal length of the word has been worn, very peculiar, but also with the ordinary back of the word money is different, so decisively pay money into the bag.
The author consulted Ding Fubao's "Ancient Money Illustrations of Past Dynasties" and "Ancient Money Dictionary", Sun Zhonghui's "Concise Coin Dictionary", Hua Guangpu's "Chinese Ancient Money Collection" and other fountain spectra and found that most of them are not contained, and only in Liu Zheng's "Daming Quan Genealogy" as a creative object, named "Giant Worker" version. Check the transaction records of related websites, and there is little relevant information. Most Ming Qian players believe that the face text is similar to the two major coins of the Southern Apocalypse Eleven, and it is initially concluded that this money is minted by the Nanjing Money Bureau.
Network consulting Luo Weiwei and other Ming money collection and research experts, most of them said that similar versions of coins are rarely unearthed, it is likely to be the ministry of works to mint coins, there is a trial minting nature, relatively rare, it has an important physical reference significance for the study of the Ming Dynasty Apocalypse money minting line and the development of editions.