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It is said that pottery coins are coins made of clay, some people may not understand, why use soil to make coins, I have heard it a few years ago, but recently read it in detail, to tell you about it.
Everyone knows that coins use metal, and only two countries in history, Germany and Japan, have made and used pottery coins. Yes, it was Germany and Japan during World War II, because of the lack of war resources, had to use all the metal to make military supplies, and the pottery coin was born at this time.
At that time in Manchukuo was close to the end of the War of Resistance, in 1945, after the test in Japan, it felt that pottery coins were feasible, so it began to be produced and issued in Manchukuo, but the experiment was tested, the data of the experiment was feasible, but the actual experience of use was very different. Let's see, everyone knows that ceramics are fired from clay. Ceramics are very hard and not afraid of wear, which has the characteristics of consumables, but firing ceramics requires a temperature of 1300 °, so the cost of production will be very large. So the Japanese lowered the temperature to 900 °, so that the soil was not actually porcelainized, but the state of the clay, that is, similar to the clay pots used by the ancestors thousands of years ago. The hardness is much worse.
Because the coin needs to be marked with words and patterns, then such a fragile product must not use a large tonnage die casting machine to press, so the surface text of the pottery coin is shallow, and the clay is red, so even if it is a new pottery coin, it also gives people a vague feeling.
Due to the lack of glazing process compared with porcelain, the waterproofness of pottery coins is very poor, and even moisture will damage the coins, the only advantage is that the weight is light, and it cannot be broken when it is dropped, and at most it is a corner or something. There are two denominations of pottery coins in five points and one cent, five cents are only 1.5 grams, and one cent is only 0.6 grams. Such coins are put in the pocket, go out in the rain, when you come back, it is not money, it is quite funny, you can imagine, such a thing will be recognized by the people?
So the original release time is not long, probably Kant 11 years 12 years two years, that is, around 1945, Japan surrendered not long ago, coupled with unpopularity, said that the circulation is not large, the data said that the plan to issue 20 million pieces, but to the time of Japan's surrender, it will also issue more than 2 million pieces, and very easy to damage, not easy to preserve, so the good products that can be seen at present are also very few, there may be some northeastern people in the family, some northeasterners have not seen it, as for the southerners may not have heard of it.
I really have one in my hand, it is left by the old man, the denomination is one point, but basically it has been blurred, vaguely can identify the middle denomination, as for the surrounding words are really not even magnifying glass can not see, the color of maroon, the surrounding damage, damaged place black, I heard that clay is a kind of soil in Liaoning Haicheng, because there is 6% of iron in this soil, it is reasonable to say that this mineral with high iron content should be taken to refine iron metal, perhaps considering the high cost, give up.
To know that Japan in the last period of time really did not have any resources, before the Japanese canned food we seized are the best trophy, used to the superior chief, because it is all canned meat, and later, the Japanese canned meat no one wants, because there is no meat at all, but pig blood and beef blood also added a lot of additives, is not something that can be eaten at all. Early Japanese cans can be exchanged for silver dollars and gold bars, the basic of the later period is to feed pigs, haha blindly said, in short, pottery coins are products under such conditions, there is not much practical value, but as a witness to history, it is still suitable for collection,
To be honest, there are not many pictures that can be found.
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