In the current era of developed networks, we have more ways to pay, you can use cash, you can use mobile phones, but in ancient times, the way of payment was very single, and you can only use copper coins and silver. In film and television dramas, we often see that the silver used by those people is like a yuan treasure, white and shiny, and it looks very clean. But the silver in history is really the same as the TV series. In fact, the real shape of ancient silver is really different from television.
Silver in the mainland Han Dynasty began to circulate as currency, silver is a rarity, the value is much larger than copper coins, it is inconvenient to carry out, so most people use broken silver, one or two silver in ancient times can buy a hundred pounds of pork. It's worth a lot more than the money you have now. And the real silver in history is not at all as shiny as the TV series, and it looks good. It is a neatly shaped silver, and occasionally there will be some shapes with thin ends wide in the middle, because the purity is not high, so most of the silver has a lot of impurities, the color is not very good, most of them are dull and mottled.
Moreover, the silver circulating in reality is even more uneven on the surface, and the pits that are bitten are all human tooth marks. The ancients could not identify silver with the naked eye, and could only be distinguished by this stupid method, so the silver in reality looked very ugly and the surface was uneven. Experts also said that silver with tooth marks can be regarded as real silver, because this is the main way for the ancients to test the authenticity of silver, the texture of silver is soft, if you bite a tooth mark, it should be real silver.
But the main circulation in ancient times is broken silver, in ancient times there is a special silver scissors, that is, the scissors, the sword is like the tool used to weigh now, can weigh the actual weight, to trade, generally like in the TV series, after eating the silver to go that kind of situation, in ancient times is still difficult to exist. The ancients generally broke silver on the body, who can not bring 50 pairs of silver to eat buns, if there is a situation that can not be found, the store will also cut a small strip on the big yuan treasure, and then weigh it with a scale.
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