Text│ Shan Lingyi
Five baht for chicken eyes
The currencies of successive dynasties have had small money, that is, shoddy and inferior money, which is a concentrated manifestation of social unrest, rising prices, and currency depreciation. For example, the yu pod half two (diameter 12 mm) in the early Western Han Dynasty, and the unscripted money (15 mm in diameter) minted by Dong Zhuo at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty are all inferior small coins, often the money is light, the weight is insufficient, the font is blurred, and there is no outline, which is called goose eye money or chicken eye money. A goose-eye coin minted by Liu Songjing and the first year of the Southern Dynasty is the lightest coin in Chinese history, and it is also the lightest square-hole round money in the world.
Due to the seriousness of private minting, the more the money was minted, the smaller the money became, and Liu Ziye, the deposed emperor of the Southern Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, re-minted two baht coins in the first year of Yongguang (465), and the style was changed to small. In the autumn of August, it was changed to Jinghe. In less than a year of liu ziye's reign, he had minted three kinds of small money: "two baht", "Yongguang", "Jinghe". The official money minted by the imperial court, whenever it circulated, the people immediately imitated the casting, and it was thinner and smaller than the official money, had no outline, and was not processed and smoothed, and was called "Lingzi" and "Jingye" and so on. Shen Qingzhi, a general in Zhenbei, believed that "if it is forbidden to cast copper into instruments, and if it is opened, it will be turned into wealth", and proposed to open a money bureau, level its quasi-standard style, and control the people to cast money. In September of the same year, Liu Ziye adopted Shen Qingzhi's suggestion to "open the door of the people to mint money", stipulating that the people should provide copper materials themselves and mint copper coins in the official money office according to certain standards. As a result, as soon as this door is opened, the money and goods are changed randomly, and the quality of the private money is difficult to guarantee, and the dry money is less than three inches long, which is called goose-eye money, which is inferior to this, also known as ring money. The "Song Shu Yan Jun Biography" says that this money "does not sink into the water, is broken at will, the market is not counted, 100,000 yuan is not profitable, 10,000 rice is bucket, and commercial goods are not good." It can be seen that goose's eye money is not only insufficient, but also very low in value. The Zizhi Tongjian Chen Ji Chen Ji'er records: "At the end of liang, there was chaos, iron money was not good, and the people used goose-eye money privately." Nails, recast five baht money, one is ten of goose's eye. "Yongguang Money was issued for only five months, and Jinghe Money was only three months long, and very little survived, setting a precedent for an emperor to change the Yuan yuan twice in the same year to cast two kinds of year money." Different from the minted money, although the Yongguang money is light and thin, it is still relatively exquisite in craftsmanship, and the qianwen adopts the small seal variant Xueye seal, which has a slender and graceful gesture, has a high historical value, and is also listed as one of the fifty treasures of Guquan. Although the goose-eye money is small, it can provide an extremely important basis for studying the social changes, economic policies, and coin minting in The Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, and also provides historical and physical evidence for the study of Chinese and world currencies.
Ring money
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