While we pay attention to the four editions of the banknote, we cannot ignore a delisted coin, that is, a chrysanthemum dime.
The theoretical amount of chrysanthemum is the largest in the old three flowers, but in real life, it is really difficult to find a good chrysanthemum corner, one is the most basic currency in life, the circulation is large, the natural loss is serious, and the second is aluminum-zinc alloy, light weight, soft texture, easy to wear and tear caused by scratches.
A special chrysanthemum corner
1. Special material
Aluminum-zinc alloy, easy to wear, which also leads to the circulation of chrysanthemums a corner of the good rate is much less than peony and plum blossoms.
2. Unprecedented inner nine-square edge design
From ancient times to the present, no coin is designed with nine square edges inside, perhaps the designer referred to the reason why the nine was respected in ancient China, but this also increased the difficulty of coin minting, because the nine-sided type is an odd side type, and it is inside the round coin, so the consistency of the front and back sides of the coin is difficult to grasp.
3. High relief pattern
The pattern of the chrysanthemum dime coin was defined as a chrysanthemum high relief at the beginning of the design, which requires the chrysanthemum dime coin to reach a certain thickness [up to 2.4 mm thickness], in order to ensure that the high relief in the stamping process presents a strong and distinct three-dimensional sense of prominence, and this is also the reason why the chrysanthemum dime coin is made of aluminum. Due to the softer aluminum material, it is easier to shape a variety of shapes and patterns in coin minting.
But things have two sides, precisely because the aluminum material of the corner of the chrysanthemum, but it is extremely serious to increase the consumption rate of the coin, the corner of the chrysanthemum once the box is unpacked and unwinded into the market, it will not take a lot of time to circulate and consume beyond recognition, forcing the central bank to continuously recycle and re-mint the chrysanthemum coin of the New Year number.
It is precisely because of the huge amount of damage and consumption in circulation that the coins issued at the beginning of the hundreds of millions of coins have a large collection and investment value.
4. Unconventional size
Whether it is a coin or a modern birth of paper money has a very obvious law - the size and weight of the coin is proportional to the size of the denomination, from the earliest shell coins, knife and shovel coins to the later copper dollar, RMB coins, basically all currencies follow this logical law.
Only the chrysanthemum corner is a special case, the old three flower coins, a dime coin in both diameter, thickness is greater than the plum blossom five corners, this perverse feature, naturally become many like to study the numismatic version of the friends are keen on the topic, after the big chrysanthemum corner stopped minting, the orchid dime coin once again returned to the law of determining the size of the coin according to the denomination.
Collectible value
As a pioneer of the delisting of the four editions of the coin, chrysanthemum corner can be said to be one of the most familiar and commonly used coins, it was issued for a total of ten years from 1991 to 2000, and the dime issued in 2000 was only 360,000 pieces according to statistics, the number is very small, this coin only appears in the binding gift box and does not participate in circulation, presumably with its delisting, the price will also rise.
In fact, the 2000 chrysanthemum corner has been optimistic, especially with the increasing market consumption, the market can sell the 2000 chrysanthemum dime coins limited, so for everyone, the 2000 chrysanthemum corner will be a good collection choice.