Have you ever seen any ancient currencies?

I have seen in ancient times, four baht, five baht, goods spring, goods cloth, Taiping hundred coins, ancient springs, Kaiyuan Tongbao, get a yuanbao, dumplings, treasure banknotes, gold and silver are called ingots, tattooed silver.

If I have seen coins from ancient times, they should be coins from the Qianlong period, and then I will see them now.

I've seen coins from the Han Dynasty, which were handed down from my grandfather's generation and still sit in my cabinet.

I've seen the same kind of copper coins as before, and the same kind of bronze coins.

I've seen copper coins from ancient times, and copper coins that seem to have been minted from copper in the past.

For example, if you have seen a copper coin in ancient times, you will find it very cute.

At my grandmother's house, I had seen a collection of ancient coins that had been collecting for a long time, and it was a collection of money, a love of antiques.

I've seen the kind of ocean in the Qing Dynasty, which looks ugly and worthless, so I think it's very earthy.

I only know that copper coins were used in ancient times, but I don't have a collection at home and haven't seen it.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Warring States sword coin, bronze knife coin.

I once saw ancient coins when my mother showed them to me when I was a child.

May I ask the master Da Zhou Tongbao, Zheng Yong Tongbao, Xiangguang Baofu, Xiangyuan Tongbao, what dynasty are these copper coins in my hand??? Thank you.

China's currency has basically been seen! There are few foreign ones!

I have a rare and beautiful ingot in the Northern Song Dynasty, how much can it be worth now?

China's currency not only has a long history but also has a wide variety of currencies, forming a unique monetary culture. In the pre-Qin period, the vassal states implemented different monetary systems: sword coins, cloth coins, and ring coins of different shapes were used in different regions.

After the Qin Dynasty unified China, China's currency was mainly in the form of ring money. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the world's earliest paper money appeared - Jiaozi. By the Ming Dynasty, ** became the most important currency in circulation.

FYI.

In the beginning, it was barter.

Later with shells.

And then with metal money.

The last banknote.

China has been using currency for 4,000 years and is one of the first countries in the world to use money. Whether it is natural currency, artificially created currency, or paper money, it has a long history in our country. From the 21st century BC until the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, natural seashells were the earliest currency in China.

People in the Central Plains have been exchanging natural seashells for goods, and later, with the development of productive forces, metal money and paper money were born.

1. Qin and Han dynastiesIn the pre-Qin period, natural seashells had the dual role of decoration and currency, and were the earliest known currency in China. By the Spring and Autumn Period, the monetary system was dominated by copper coins, and copper coins had already appeared on the market. During the Warring States period, due to the development of the commodity economy, money began to appear in the market generally.

In addition to ** is the currency of various countries, copper coins are the common currencies of various countries, such as knife coins, cloth coins, fatigue, leather coins, iron coins, etc.

2. During the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms also mainly had copper coins as the basis. After the Tang Dynasty, ** currency was gradually widely circulated, and the official currency in the treasury would be minted into ingots according to uniform fineness and weight for storage. Later, because a large number of copper coins and silver coins were very inconvenient to carry, in the highly developed Northern Song Dynasty, Jiaozi began to appear, which was the earliest paper money in the world, and compared with paper money in the modern sense, it was more like a bill of exchange.

Later, the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty and used the paper money of the Song Dynasty.

3. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the development of society, ** began to flow into China in large quantities and became as common currency as copper coins. During the Qing Dynasty, ** had become the main monetary unit of the country, and silver taels began to gradually appear in the homes of ordinary people. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, China minted its own silver coins, set up banks, and began to issue regular paper money.

It was not until 1935 that China implemented a fiat currency system and officially abolished the silver standard.

Dear readers and friends, do you all understand the development of ancient Chinese currency?

From the previous barter to the emergence of the Bronze Age, ancient currency slowly turned into copper coins. Paper money has been formed until now.

This may be traced back to the Shang Dynasty thousands of years ago, when at first it was bartered (exchanged for something equivalent with the other party) or shells as money, and later with the development of society, this method could no longer meet the needs of commerce at that time, and later copper and iron were used to mint money. But at that time, ** was not as developed as it is now, and the coins in various places looked different, until the emergence of Qin Shi Huang unified the currency! Later, it was found that the heads of various places minted coins, causing them to be rich and rival the country, disrupting the market The country took back the power of coinage, announcing that it could only be minted!

Later, ordinary currency was too bulky and inconvenient, and paper money ...... appeared

The original currency was gold and copper coins, and later people slowly evolved paper money because gold and copper coins were too heavy, and finally came to the modern renminbi.

From the TV series, we can see that silver was used in ancient times. Not only is silver large enough to take up space in your pocket, but it also needs to be weighed during trading, which is a cumbersome step. So it later evolved into paper money that is easy to carry. Today's electronic money is more convenient.

"Money" is a common name for currency in our country. It is a special commodity that acts as an equivalent in the exchange of goods and services within a particular country or economy, or in the repayment of debts. Why is money called "money"?

What is the origin of the word "money"? It turns out that in the long development of commodity exchange, commodities that play the role of general equivalents are not used at the beginning, but livestock first. However, there are differences in the size, fat, male and female, health and disease of livestock, and it cannot be divided, and it is not easy to carry and keep, so it is replaced by soybean grain.

However, using grain and silk as a general equivalent will also lead to the speculative phenomenon of "warming the grain for profit, and making thin silk for the market", and because of their different quality, the price is bound to cause trouble. In this way, over time, people trade goods with physical objects such as ** and production tools as general equivalents. In ancient China, there was a kind of agricultural tool, which was called "money" at that time, and "money" was originally the name of a kind of bronze casting production tool for farmland farming.

Because the peasant family had to rely on this tool for productive labor, and because "money" was easier to exchange than land and other goods, it was used as a medium of exchange for a long time, and then gradually evolved into money, and the name "money" was used. In the Han Dynasty, the feudal and superstitious rulers, out of the desire to accumulate wealth, renamed "money" as "spring", and "spring" became a loan for "money". It is more figurative to use "spring" to call money, no wonder some people use it as a metaphor:

The spring is gathered from all directions, and then flows wide in all directions. Therefore, until modern times, the borrowed word "spring" is still used, for example: coin collectors always refer to "spring friends".

We now see in museums and other places, and the "cloth coins" we see are much smaller than the "money" of agricultural tools, but they maintain the original form of "money". The 1980 edition of the fourth set of RMB Wu Yuan banknotes, when shining in the light, its watermark pattern is "cloth coin".