The Southern Song Dynasty (June 12, 1127 – March 19, 1279) was the second period of the Song Dynasty, with Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) as its capital, known as the Southern Song Dynasty, the Ninth Emperor, who lived for 152 years. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the government's national strength was relatively weak, because it was in a quiet corner and military affairs were continuous, so the overall social environment was turbulent. Reflected in the coinage is that the coinage is relatively poor, the level of copper alloy smelting is not enough, resulting in most of the bones are not sophisticated, coupled with the fact that most of the Southern Song coins unearthed in the south are seriously corroded, and the good products are less, far less than the Northern Song Dynasty coinage before this. Next, we will look at the coins of the Southern Song Dynasty one by one in chronological order.
On June 12, 1127, Emperor Huizong of Song's son Zhao Zhao established the state at Yingtianfu (present-day Shangqiu, Henan) as emperor for Emperor Gaozong of Song. In the same year, the year was set as Jianyan (the same year was also the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty Jingkang, but due to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jingkang era number only lasted until March), and the Jianyan money was minted. Jianyan money has Tongbao, Yuanbao and Heavy Treasure Money, of which Yuanbao Money is rare, Heavy Treasure Money is rare and Tongbao Money is more in existence. Let's take one by one.
Jianyan Yuanbao, minted rarely today, is currently found to have small flat copper coins and seal books on money, folding two iron coins. In the second edition of the "Encyclopedia of Ancient Chinese Money", there are rubbings containing copper coins and iron coins.
Jianyan Yuanbao, rare
The transaction price is the reference price of many years ago
Jianyan heavy treasure, minting slightly more than the yuan treasure money, for the folding of the three seal books, copper, iron coins are available.
Jianyan heavy treasure
The iron money rubbings recorded in the second volume of the "Collection of Ancient Chinese Money" can be ignored
Jianyan Tongbao has small flat, folded second, folded third and other copper and iron coins, money pattern seal book, letter book in pairs, casting a large amount, the edition is complex. Jianyan Tongbao Xiaoping has relatively small deposits, and the current transaction price of general goods is in the hundreds; the amount of folded two coins is more, the transaction price of ordinary products is smaller than dozens, and the beautiful products are around 100. Jianyan Tongbao's honorary product is "point construction", small flat fold two fold three have this version, the level is relatively high, the characteristics are also obvious, that is, there is a separate point in the upper left corner of the jianzi. It should be noted that only the letter money has this version, and the seal book does not.
Point to build
Small flat point built
Fold two points to build
The features of the dot construction are obvious and there are only scripted versions
Another good version of Jianyan Tongbao is Back River. This product was cast by Nishikawa, and there is a coin minting bureau marked with Sichuan characters on the back. Note that this edition has only the script version and no seal book.
Xiaoping backs the river
The third edition is a large sample of the Erbao True Book, the most obvious feature is that the middle of the Bao character is "Wang Er" instead of "Wang Jiao", and the overall font is also relatively unique.
Erbao's real book is very large
In addition, it is the iron mother, and the iron mother still maintains a high grade and high transaction price.
Iron mother, high grade and high price
Jianyan money is basically talked about here, other versions of the grade is not high, the price gap is not large, not to mention, tomorrow is Shaoxing.