What ancient coins looked like

There are many kinds of ancient coins, in different forms, but most are round, square-hole copper coins; of course, also paper money.

1. Shell.

Shell is China's earliest currency, a lot of value-related words, most of them are inseparable from the "shell". Late primitive society to the Xia, Shang, Zhou era, the main form of money is the physical currency, the wider circulation of natural shellfish.

2, round square hole copper money.

After the Qin unification of the six countries, political unity requires economic unity as a basis, Qin Shi Huang followed the trend of development of history, in the unification of the written word, weights and measures at the same time, but also the unification of the currency. The first one was the "gold" as the upper coin, with abrasion as the unit, and the lower coin was the round copper coin with square holes. This square-hole round money has been the main form of Chinese currency for more than 2,000 years.

3, Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Kaiyuan Tongbao money is China's earliest Tongbao money, the historical impact is very far-reaching, by the back of the "Republic of China Tongbao" as we know it. According to the test Tang Gaozu Wude year 621 years cast "Kaiyuan Tongbao" money, the end of the Qin and Han dynasty since the weight of the baht and two named coinage system, and created the Tang and Song dynasty after the "text" as the unit of the year, Bao Wen system of copper coins.

4, paper money

The two Song dynasty produced paper money is the world's first paper money. This paper money is a symbolic currency, it is the product of the development of the social commodity economy to a certain stage, and at the same time with the progress of paper and printing technology is also related. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were mainly jiaozi (交子) and in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were huizi (会子) and guanzi (关子). Jiaozi and guanzi were the common names for bills, securities and exchange coupons. And whether the value of the currency is stable to become a barometer of the economic and financial situation.

About ancient coins

China's various periods of ancient coins have weathered the storms of four thousand years of history, a long history, a wide range of its different shapes, a large number of varieties, to create more than seventy of the world's largest, which is unparalleled in the world of any one country.

Coins can be said to epitomize the historical development of a country. Chinese ancient coins in its long process of development has gradually formed a unique oriental coin culture system, so its value is more and more people found, ancient coins are also more and more people's collection.

Coins are not only a means of commodity exchange, but also a special cultural carrier, which is a special commodity and an exquisite artwork, and also a reflection of the political, economic, cultural and artistic conditions of each country in each period. Chinese coins, for example, from thousands of years ago, the development of shellfish, cloth coins to today's beautifully printed, advanced counterfeit imitation technology of paper money, and then to "a card to go all over the world" of electronic currency ...... currency changes condensed thousands of years of historical process.