At the end of primitive society, the currency first appeared was physical currency. Generally speaking, nomadic people use livestock and animal skins to realize Functions of money, while agricultural people use grain, cloth and silk textiles, farm tools, pottery, seashells, pearls and jade as the earliest real currency. Ancient Chinese coins originated in the Xia Dynasty (with Shell money as the exchange unit at first), originated in the Shang Dynasty, developed in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and unified in Qin Dynasty. After a long history of more than 4,000 years, they have created more than 70 world records. Not only that, the integrity of China's coin system, the richness of its categories, the clarity of its context and the breadth of its connotation are incomparable to any other country. Rare ancient coins are the real objects of History of money and the testimony of history. Copper coins in the Qing Dynasty followed the system of the Ming Dynasty, mainly making small coins. Xianfeng is the most complicated copper coin in Qing Dynasty. Qian Wen is divided into Tongbao, Chongbao and Yuanbao, with different face values and different money bureaus. The Qing Dynasty used silver for most of its private businesses, money for a small sum, and money and silver in parallel.
"Xianfeng" was the title of Munjong in Qing Dynasty. The reign of Xianfeng coincided with the climax of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's revolutionary movement. At this time, in order to survive, the Qing government in seething popular discontent made a big fuss about coin casting and passed the financial crisis on to the common people. "Xianfeng Tongbao", "Hsienfung treasures" and "Xianfeng Yuanbao" coins were introduced one after another. Hsienfung treasures was cast during the reign of Xianfeng in Munjong in the Qing Dynasty, with direct reading of regular script in facial script, memorizing Manchu script, memorizing Manchu and Chinese script, memorizing values in Chinese and memorizing weight. Because of its early casting time and wide circulation area, it is also a valuable coin that Gu Quan lovers have been most concerned about and devoted |