Jilin Province makes silver dollars
First, the reason for the establishment of the factory in Jilin Province
During the Guangxu years, China and the Tsar entered a period of contention between you and me, and in the seventh year of Guangxu, wu Dayi, the minister of Qincha, approved the establishment of a machine bureau on the north bank of the Songhua River outside the provincial city, to put it bluntly, it was an arsenal, in order to prevent the Russian invasion, the Jilin area at that time lacked silver dollar circulation, usually the shops themselves issued money tickets, and these money tickets could only be exchanged for materials that could not be exchanged for silver, so that the price of silver rose over a long period of time.
Second, China's first set of mechanism coins
The first set of mechanism coins in China was a "Jilin Changping" silver coin minted by the Jilin Machinery Bureau at the end of the Qing Guangxu Decade (1884). "Jilin" in manchu is the meaning of "shipyard", the local weight unit of silver is used to use "factory flat", so this set of silver coins is commonly known as "Jilin factory flat". Silver coins are divided into five equal denominations, namely one or two, seven dollars, half two, three dollars and one dollar.
"Jilin Changping" pattern is unique, above the front of the coin is a circular "Shou" character, two Han dragons on both sides, there is a large square in the center, there is a "Guangxu Ten Years Jilin Machinery Bureau Supervision" words, the font is a seal script; the back center has a smaller square than the front, the inner standard weight, according to the weight of the plutonium "factory flat one or two", "factory flat seven coins", "factory flat half two", "factory flat three coins" and "factory flat one dollar" and other words, the font is used in the book, the four manchus around the coin, there are four Manchu characters above and below, indicating the value of the coin, Because silver coins are not officially issued, the stock is very small, and "factory flat one coin" is even more rare. This set of silver coins was the first official mechanism silver coin designed by the Chinese themselves, carved and molded by themselves, and pressed by their own coinage machine.
Among them, there are two versions of "Factory Level One or Two":
1, the Mao version (that is, the dragon body has hair), because the coin is too precious, the auction market in recent years is relatively small, the picture is selected from the rare catalogue of mechanism coins, the following is selected from the Chinese Guardian compilation "Numismatic Master Ma Dingxiang";
2, the hairless version is also called the light dragon version, that is, the dragon body is hairless, we compare and refer to the hair version of the above figure, a comparison can be seen;
There are also two versions of "Factory Flat One Dollar":
1. The "one" version in large capital;
2, the ancient character "弌" version, this version did not find a picture, nor did it find the market to see the examination, the above several silver dollars are really rare, if you see in the market, you must be careful, do not hold the dream of getting rich, into the "National Treasure Gang" ranks; it can be said that the above silver dollars we can not see, once there is a genuine appearance, it is enough to sensational the coin circle!
It can be said that "Jilin Changping" is the product of the Qing court's reaction to the aggression of Russia, and China's first mechanism silver coin is very precious in both historical value and collection value!
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