"Jinyang Erjin" bridge foot cloth, a kind of Pingshou bridge foot cloth, cast in the Warring States period. The material is copper. Pingshou Bridge Foot Cloth In the middle and late Warring States period (about the 4th-3rd century BC), it was mainly cast by the State of Wei. The shape characteristics are: flat head, square shoulders or round shoulders, double enough to arc crotch connected, look like a bridge arch, so called "bridge foot cloth"
Bridge foot cloth, the main circulating currency of the State of Wei in the early and middle warring states, this cloth is evolved from the empty first cloth of the Spring and Autumn Period, its coin Wenji place name and Ji value jiwei, with '釿' as the monetary unit, there are 'two, one, half- and half-currency' three-class currency system, also known as '釿布'. Its currency value, size and weight are decreasing in turn, which is in line with the definition of 'child and mother's right', which is more convenient for circulation and use in the process of commodity trading, which is a major progress in the pre-Qin monetary system. Among them, the Jin Half-Plume, The Jinyang Yiyi, and the Jinyang Erzhu were designated as Zhao Bu; some were also analyzed as Wei Jinyang or Jinyang belonged to Wei Shi (later Zhao Zhan) Wei Zao.
Jinyang, ancient place name, present-day Yongji, Shanxi. Jinyang City is one of the famous metropolises in ancient northern China. The date of its founding is unknown, but the earliest date that appeared in the history books was 497 BC, when it served as the capital of the Zhao State, and at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Dong Anyu, a minister of the Jin Dynasty, built Jinyang City on the north bank of the Jinshui River at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin, on the east side of the Hanging Urn Mountain, on Saturday.
Today, the author exhibits a large bridge foot cloth of Wei Gong in the Warring States period "Jinyang Erjiao", which is born out of the pit, the old embroidery is reckless and reckless, and the bones are three points; the Qianwen Great Seal, the "Jinyang Eryi" four-character transmission, the coin head and foot are upside down, read from right to left, the writing is sprinkled, smooth and beautiful, the layout is dense and beautiful, the beauty is full; flat head, round shoulders, round crotch, the edge of the money face has a thin outline, and the back of the money is not written flat. The large bridge foot cloth "Jinyang Erzhu", in the Warring States Bridge foot cloth, is extremely rare, belonging to the ancient spring treasure. Height: 64·7mm, foot width: 37.9mm, thickness: 2·2mm, weight: 20.1 grams.
