At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the price of copper rose sharply, and people spent their money on copper to obtain several times the profit. There was a money shortage in the market.
Due to the suspension of minting money in Guangdong Province, the market for money production is running out, and the circulation of small amounts is very inconvenient.
In order to save money from the shortage and influenced by Hong Kong copper coins and foreign currencies, in June of the 26th year of Guangxu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Deshou and the former governor Li Hongzhang, approved the Guangdong Province to imitate the Hong Kong Tongxian casting mechanism copper coins.
Therefore, the casting of machine-made copper coins in the Qing Dynasty began with Yin from Guangdong Province.
Then Hu Jian, Sujiang, Sichuan and other provinces successively imitated copper coins.
Copper coins are made of 97%--98.3% red copper, 0.1% white lead, 1% tin and other combinations. Each coin weighs two coins and is used to make ten coins.
In the center of the front are "Guangxu Yuanbao" and "Baoguang" in Manchu, surrounded by a bead circle, and the inscription on the upper edge is "Made in Beihu Province".
The lower margin period value text is "when ten";
The "flying dragon" picture and bead circle are cast in the center of the back, with the English date "KWANGTUNG" on the upper edge and the English number "O" on the lower edge.
There is also a Guangxu Yuanbao at that time, with "Guangxu Yuanbao" on the front, Manchu characters and the name of the household (or province) on the outer edge, and twenty characters for making money on the bottom.
In particular, red copper trial coins are even rarer, and their market value has not reached less than tens of thousands of yuan.
Of course, there are very few other copper coins from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, such as Xuantong coins, Guangxu coins, and some relatively worthless coins from the Republic of China.
At that time, the copper coin bureau used a set of seven, ten and seventy copper coins imitating the Jiahe Copper Yuan Bureau to mint coins.
Therefore, many sample coins were tried to be minted that year, because there were many other small-scale printings.
Therefore, the central Chuanbei Hu Jian copper coin in poor condition has a very low value.
The obverse image of the copper coin produced in the 80th year of Xuantong has the seven characters "Made in the year of Xuantong".
The reason why that rare copper coin appears is entirely because it was cast accurately, so it can be considered a wrong version of the coin!
Therefore, seeing that he did not have the copper coins of the 80th year of Xuantong in his hand, he suggested that he check carefully to see if there were no trial mints of white copper or red copper.
I only saw the money face: "Guangxu Yuanbao" in Chinese in the bead circle, "Made in Qichuan Official Bureau" in the lower circle, and "Each coin is worth seventy cents" in the upper circle.
The copper coins minted in Sichuan Province have also attracted much attention in the coin collection community.
This kind of copper coin has a deep mold, exquisite imprinting, natural and even coating, and a bright copper sheen on the bottom of the plate.
Of course, the price is also cheap. It has appeared in the auction house again, and the first price was 470,000.
In particular, the Xuanbashi Wenshao you have seen is made of brass, while the white copper and red copper trial coins are treasures coveted by coin collectors.
Of course, the most precious one should be the Guangxu Yuanbao seventy-wen copper coin made by the Sichuan government.
The following year, the government ordered the provinces along the rivers and coasts to allow imitation casting.
The number was increased to four in the past, and the output of the "Guangxu Yuanbao" copper coins cast was moderate.
When the Sichuan Copper Yuan Bureau first imitated copper coins, they did not change the Manchu character "Baofu" from "Baofu" to "Baochuan", which resulted in a very small mistake.
Therefore, the scarcity and preciousness of those trial coins in the collection market are very low, and their market value has also increased.
This similar coin appeared in the 2014 Shendu Poly Auction Company, Autumn Auction (7.17-18), Miscellaneous Special Auction.
Copper coins with the word "Baochuan" in Manchu in the center and that kind of quality are extremely rare, and the one Qi Guanpeng saw was extremely beautiful, so it was even more rare.
Qian Bei: The center is a dragon picture.
The front of the copper coin has the pattern of Hu Jian, and the back has the Chinese characters Zhongchuan and the year number.
At the subsequent auction, a relatively poor-quality Sichuan-backed Qiguan copper coin with a reddish-brown center sold for a low price of 1 yuan. It was a 1909 Jiyou Xiaoqing copper coin with the seven-character "Bian" in the center.
, which is a trial coin.
In the center is a dragon pattern, and on the back is a dragon pattern and the words "One Liang".
The Sichuan Copper Coin Bureau was established in the 74th year of Guangxu's reign, not in 1902. Copper coins were minted in August of the following year.
Therefore, the elders of Quanjie regarded it as a treasure of copper coins from the Qing Dynasty;
If not, this is not a considerable amount of wealth!
Since then, copper coins have been minted all over the country.
Officials from the Copper Yuan Bureau of Qianchuan Prefecture discovered this and immediately recast it.
Beihu Province pioneered the creation of copper coins in my country. In the following fifty years, copper coins were produced in large quantities. The total number should be tens of billions, and a large number of them still exist today.
It is in rough condition and is considered a treasure.
Maybe he was a moldmaker at the Tongyuan Bureau of Sichuan Prefecture at that time, and he knew Manchu.
Chen Wenzhe saw such a copper coin among the collections of these tomb robbers.
Because machine-made copper coins are better cast than square-hole copper coins, they are popular among merchants and circulate smoothly.
Privately minted ordinary copper coins that are not officially cast are of low value.
Among them, the value of trial coinage of white copper and red copper is very low.
In addition, the Sichuan government bureau made Guangxu Yuanbao worth seventy copper coins each. This kind of Guangxu Yuanbao was made by the Sichuan government and was worth seventy copper coins.
Among modern copper coins, it is rare that the price can reach one or four hundred thousand.
For example, at an auction last year, the price of a red copper Xuanba Shiwen trial coin was as low as 70,000 yuan.
Chen Wenzhe looked at the copper coin carelessly. It was a gold coin and a silver coin. It was a copper coin. Among the copper coins, the precious one was rare.
In the 17th year of the Republic of China, the Chuanbei Hu Jian 70-Wen Copper Coin was minted by the Mint of Sichuan Province, with a face value of 70 Wen.
That kind of copper coin has a smooth edge and was trial-cast at the Mint Bian Factory of Du Branch. It has not yet been issued. It has a large mintage and is extremely rare in the world. So far, more than seven coins have been seen.
Because this copper coin was issued earlier, its condition is relatively rare, and those made in Sichuan Province are generally in poor condition.
Jiahe Copper Yuan Bureau was established in the 78th year of Guangxu.
Among the Guangxu Yuanbao, the rarest one is not the Shuanglongshou coin made in Guangdong Province: it weighs one tael in Kuping and is worth collecting.
Although the market value of trial coins is not very low yet, as the market conditions change, its value may continue to rise.
Therefore, copper coins were cast in different places at that time, which is the most obvious feature that distinguishes copper coins from the same time.
This is a Guangxu Yuanbao made by the Qichuan government. The starting price was 780,000. After several rounds of bidding, it was finally sold at 2.68 million.
It is understood that a large number of trial mints of white copper and red copper are produced, among which red copper trial coins are the most rare.
The copper coins issued in the 80th year of Xuantong (1902), issued during the Guangxu period of the Xiaoqing Dynasty, are among the best of your country's modern coins.
In October of the 80th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1904), the Kaifeng Bureau began to build a factory. The scale was small, with only eight coin minting machines.
Among them, the 70 copper coins built by Hu in Chuanbei in the 17th year of the Republic of China and the 100 copper coins minted in the 19th year of the Republic of China are both very precious.
That kind of thick copper coin was trial-cast by the Jincheng Mint Factory of the Du branch. It has not been issued and is extremely rare in the world;
Therefore, that kind of copper coin is very common. In addition, that kind of copper coin has fine copper quality, good color and rough appearance. It seems that it is well preserved, so it is a treasure among coins.
Chen Wenzhe knows a few things, such as the trial minting of seventy-note copper coins of the Xiaoqing Dynasty in the eighth year of Xuantong.