"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present". Today, what we see is a complete set of ancient coins for minting copper coins.
After this set of coins is fixed by a mortise and tenon structure, the molten copper can be cast into it, and it can produce 7 to 8 coins at a time, and it can be cast and molded at one time. After that, these coins were taken out and polished, which was the five-baht coin used in the Han Dynasty.
This complete set of bronze models in the collection of Pingxiang Museum is composed of male and female models. The upper part of the public fan is trumpet-shaped casting, poured into each money through the mouth, there are three pillars of male tenon on both shoulders and the bottom, the front of the female fan is five baht money, there are two words of "five baht" in the reverse engraved Yin seal book, the word "five baht" is neatly arranged in vertical rows on both sides of the perforation, the money is read from left to right, the handwriting is clear and regular, the two strokes in the middle of the word "five" cross and bend, the word "baht" is round, and the word "gold" is only half. After comparing the coin mold of this copper model with the sample money in the plates of the "Monetary History of China" and the "Dictionary of Ancient Coins", experts believe that the copper model is likely to be a private five-baht coin model minted by the people in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, the stock of the five-baht coin fan is small, although this is the private coinage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it can also reflect the social and economic conditions at that time, so it is also a rare precious cultural relic.
Lou Yuqing, a librarian of the Pingxiang Museum, said that as a tool that can be used repeatedly, the copper fan is of great value, similar to the mother money of modern banknote printing. The copper fan itself is extremely technical, and the copper coins are cast from the copper fan, so they are very valuable. In the Han Dynasty, there were coinage offices in many places, so copper models are found in various places in modern times, but it is very rare for a complete mother model and a public model to appear together.