China's ancient currency is very rich, monetary history, to shell coins, knives, cloth and other minted, material to, gold, silver, iron, lead coinage, as well as paper money and ethnic minority coins, ancient books, China's earliest currency, there are gold, silver, copper, jade, shells, turtle shells, etc., the original use of cargo shells, quasi-date shells, silk shells, sea shell shells, about 3 cm long, about 2 cm wide, the late Shang Dynasty to grind off the back of the shell, called the grinding back, also appear imitation shells, there are copper bone stone mussels and so on. Cloth coins, cloth coins are derived from the agricultural tool shovel evolution of copper coinage, shovel-shaped copper coins are one of the early forms of cargo scarves in China, characterized by copper shovels, large body shape, thicker coins, hollow parts, empty cloth mainly in three forms, flat shoulders, oblique shoulders and shrugged shoulders, the coin body minted three vertical lines, there are words, mainly numbers, dry branches, celestial signs, objects, place names and symbols, etc., to Zhou, Zheng, Wei, Jin and other countries' currencies. Knife coins, knife coins mainly include Yan's knife coins and Qi's large knife coins, Yanguo's minted knife coins, there are needle head knife coins and sharp head knife coins, needle head knife, back into an arc, the blade is concave, long handle front two vertical lines, the handle end has a ring, the tip of the knife is sharp as a needle, round money, after the middle of the Warring States period, countries mint round hole round money. The half two coins minted during the Warring States period of the Qin Dynasty, the specially made money face and back are not very smooth, some money is also stained with copper stains, the flow channel into the copper juice when minting is relatively wide, Qin and Han copper coins, Qin and Han half two coins are implemented to the whole country, after the Han Dynasty destroyed Qin, there are eight pearls and half two and five cents minted by Lü Houshi, and when Emperor Wen cast four beads and half two, minted five beads of money, thus ending the casting of about 200 years of half two coins, creating a five-baht coin system of about 500 years. New Mang coins, the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang seized the power of the Han Emperor, the founding name of the country is New, a series of retro reforms have been taken, for the currency has been a total of four times reformed, copper coinage such as, Daquan fifty, a knife flat five thousand and so on. Three Kingdoms, two Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Sui Dynasty currency, lasted more than three hundred years, is the ancient Chinese war frequent period, at the same time coexisted 30 regimes, folk exchange to millet, salt rice, some places to use old money, also minted five pearl coins, this period of coin varieties are many, more chaotic, Sui unified, and then minted five baht coins. Such as Yong'an five baht, Changping five baht, Yongtong Wanguo and so on. Tang Five Dynasties Copper Coins, Tang Dynasty is the peak period of feudal economic and cultural development in China's history, the currency Jingji prosperity, issued in the early Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Tongbao, the exchange of commodities has taken a role in promoting, truly becoming a model of money making in later generations, with the exchange of foreign materials and cultures, Kaiyuan Tongbao spread out of the country, the five dynasties and ten countries of the divided regime, minted a lot of copper coins, generally very exquisite, such as, Kaiyuan Tongbao, Qianfeng Quanbao, Qianyuan Heavy Treasure, Jianzhong Tongbao, Dali Yuanbao, etc., written by the famous Ouyang Yuanbao at that time, Qian diameter 2.4 to 2.5 cm, wear width 0.7 cm, silhouette width 0.2 cm, weight of about 4.5 grams, five generations and ten kingdoms, such as, deyi yuanbao, Shuntian yuanbao, Kaiping Tongbao, Tianfu yuanbao, Jianyuan Tianfu, Hanyuan Tongbao and so on. Two Song Dynasty copper coins, the Song Dynasty is very prosperous, handicraft commercial market towns have sprung up in large numbers, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty Kaifeng Province has 35 towns, Jingdezhen was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, indicating that this period is rich in commodities, commercial development, the number of circulating currencies is very large, the Song Dynasty coins feature the year number as the money, the two Song Dynasties changed the year number more than 50 times, there are also more than 50 kinds of money, each kind of money has a true, grass, subordinate, seal, gold body of a variety of books, as well as yuanbao, Tongbao, heavy treasure, such as the Southern Song Dynasty's Jiading iron money has seventeen or eight names, plus the texture is different, The most varied and varied coins are also the favorite coins of enthusiasts. Such as, Song Yuan Tongbao, Taiping Tongbao, Zhidao Yuanbao, Jingde Yuanbao, Chunhua Qian's Iron Mother Qian, Jianyan Yuanbao and so on. Liao, Western Xia, Gold, Yuan Copper Coins, the regime established by the ethnic minorities in the north, some of them are remote, some of them do not have much soft amount of money, some coins are minted after melting new money, so they use their own ethnic characters to mint copper coins, many of which belong to the rare treasures of the sea, which are very valuable parts of China's monetary history, such as Tongquan Goods, Kaidan Shengbao, Dan Patrol Treasure, Bai Tie YuanBao and other year-number coins, Zhenglong Yuanbao, Dading Tongbao, Dade Tongbao, such as Gui'er, Guangsan, Wufu, Jishi, etc., when the ten coins back Eshi, Shiguang, Gui Ten and other less shellfish. Ming and Qing copper coins, the last two dynasties of China's feudal society in the Ming and Qing dynasties, a long time, the political situation is unified, the economy is developed, commodity exchange is more prosperous than the previous generation, the types of minted currencies are not as complicated as the two Song Dynasties, the general Ming and Qing coins are neatly shaped, the writing is rigorous, the Ming Wei peasant rebel army, the Qing Dynasty Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, etc., the number of copper coins is quite large. For example, Hongwu Tongbao, Fold Two, Fold Three, Fold Five and Dang Ten, Fifth Grade, Yongyong Tongbao, Baode Tongbao, Jiajing Tongbao, Longqing Tongbao, Wanli Tongbao, Taichang Tongbao, Qizhen Tongbao, etc. Qing Dynasty Dashun Tongbao, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zhixianfeng Tongbao, Tongzhi Tongbao, Guangxu Tongbao, Ancestral Money, Mother Money and Sample Money Left Behind by Qing Dynasty Copper Coins, The Number of Ancestral Money is Increased, Ancestral Money is carved, Very Rare, Mother Money and Sample Money Are Minted Thick and Thick, Mother Money is Thicker than Sample Money, and the Quantity is Much Less Than Circulating Money.
