Casting money workshop ruins

Unearthed coins are provided by the archaeological team of Jilin, Bai Zhirong and Zhou Xiujiang.

The Institute of Archaeology of Inner Mongolia recently announced a new archeological achievement – ​​the discovery of a 2000-year-old Han Dynasty coin-processing workshop site within the ancient city of Holo-Chaiden in Hangjinqi, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, and the clean-up of 7,000 kilos of ancient coins. Based on approximately 200 calculations per kilogram, an initial estimate of 1.4 million.

Our reporter has followed up with the archaeological team for two consecutive days in an effort to uncover information behind this ancient city and piles of ancient money.

As a result of theft, the site of a complete cast money workshop

In August 2012, an ancient numismatic cellar stolen from the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage occurred in the ancient city of Holo, Chaldeon in Hangjin Banner. While the criminals were being brought to justice, the rescue excavations of the stolen pits of the Department of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Hangjinqi Cultural Relics Management Office were also carried out in an orderly manner.

The excavation was completed in October 2013. A total of three coins were discovered here. After excavation and public security recovery, it has unearthed more than 7,000 kilograms of ancient coins. Most of these coins are "money fountains," and there are also a few "Great Spring 50", "Koizumi Naichi", "Shibu", "Buquan" and "Five Scorpions".

The surprise of Chen Yongzhi, director of the Inner Mongolia Institute of Archeology, was that he thought it was only a cryptocell, but they also discovered four coin kiln sites. The kiln chamber plane is mainly rectangular. The kiln chamber has a fire pit, a fire tunnel, a kiln door, and a drainage ditch. Four kiln sites were distributed in an orderly manner, and a billeting site was found near the kiln site. Archaeologists also discovered pottery, bronze ware, ironware, stone tools, a large amount of copper-iron slag, and animal skeletons.

An important basis for judging whether to make a money workshop is to see if there is a money fan (abrasive tool). They soon discovered more than 150 pieces of money (Taomufan) and more than 20 pieces of Taofan in the kiln room and nearby cultural layers. Among them, there are 9 money fans in the exact year. There are words such as "March of the First Year of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", "Zhong Guan Gong..." and "Great Spring 50" and "Koizumi Straight One." The "Founding Country" is the year of the king, that is, the year 9 AD.

Although the exact year of the money fan is incomplete, it is very precious, because it is customary to cast money and then “destroy” it.

Lian Jilin, director of the First Research Office of the Inner Mongolia Archeological Institute, was the captain of the archaeological team. The team he led accurately determined that they found a complete site of the Han Dynasty cast money workshop. The time should be from the later Han Dynasty to the Xinyi period (AD From the first 110 years to about 14 AD.) The time span is more than a hundred years.

At the same time, they inferred that most of the copper coins unearthed here have been half-remained and have not been polished and polished. They should be deposited directly in the three-dollar cellar after being minted at this place, and have not been used in circulation. This money-making workshop, which sculpts, casts, and holds a dragon, should have been constructed as a unified plan. So complete, it is the first time in the country.

At present, the excavation area of ​​the entire cast money workshop has been covered by a steel housing cover.

The history behind ancient money

Even Jilin briefed the reporters on the "Half-Year", "Five Margins" and "Great Spring Fifty," "Koizumi Straight One," Qianfan, "Hot Springs," "Shibu", "Buquan" and "Buquan" unearthed from this excavated Western Han Dynasty. From the perspective of copper coins such as Wuyi, it was once again proved that Wang Shuo’s monetary reform was a special period in the history of ancient Chinese coins.

Even Jilin said that Wang Shuo’s currency reform has had a great influence on the history of ancient Chinese currency. Wang Shuo made four major changes in the currency system in less than 20 years. In the period of inhabitation, Wang Hao began to cast a knife with 5,000 strokes, 500 swords, and 50 large springs. In the first year of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the second currency reform was carried out. The wrong knife, sharp knife, and five money were spent and the Koizumi value was cast. First, in parallel with Daquanquan fifty, at the same time, “another fifty doctors were sent to cast money in the county.” The excavation confirmed that the Ordos region had already minted institutions and locations at the time and coined multiple currencies at the same time. It changed the system that the county country cannot cast money during the Han Wudi period.

Why do the coins of this period are called "springs"? There is a saying in the collectors community. Because Wang Xi believes in Wei Weizhi’s study, he took Liu Xing’s world, and “Liu” was composed of “卯, gold, and a knife”, so he avoided the word “Liu,” and he also avoided the word “gold, knife”. The word "golden" uses the word "spring" instead.

Wang Shuo’s currency reform failed due to many and complex confusions, but due to the unique shape and sophisticated production of coins, it has always been a favorite for collectors. One of the most famous is the "five-knife", commonly known as the wrong knife. “Beauty people gave me the wrong knife, why should I report Yingqiong Yao”, it can be seen as the ultimate collection of ancient money. Unfortunately, this archeology did not find it.

Studying ancient Chinese coins can be said to be a required course and hard work for archaeologists. Because ancient coins are often accompanied by unearthed relics, and these coins have year-and-year texts, it is an important material for their speculation.

According to the director of the First Research Office of the Inner Mongolia Archeological Institute, Jilin Researcher, the amount of ancient money in China is large, and the variety of items is widespread and rare in the world. Ancient Chinese coins bear and reflect the history of ancient Chinese politics, economy and folk custom. Its exquisite calligraphy and casting techniques are unique to Chinese charm.

Chinese coinage began in Shang and Zhou and was unified in Qin. The archaeological discovery, unearthed in 1971 in the Tomb of the Shang Dynasty in Baode, Shanxi Province, is the originator of the Chinese copper coin and the earliest discovered metal coin. After the "Qin Baner" unified currency, Tianyuan Place became the common form of ancient Chinese coins. Compared with the irreducible coins in the past, the “Hanwuyi” has been standardized and standardized for more than 700 years. In the year 621 AD, Tang Gaozu spent five months in a row and opened Kaiyuan Tongbao, which completely separated the name of the coin from the weight of the coin and evolved into symbolization, abstraction, and credit. The Chinese coin entered the stage of the Year of the Year. The casting of various kinds of iron money in the Song Dynasty made Qianwen's art a crowning achievement. True, grass, priests, chanting, and all kinds of writings were involved in Qian Wen's writings. He was enthusiastic for many calligraphers and even the emperors at that time. The Ming and Qing dynasties were gradually attributed to silver ingots and silver coins.

There are many ancient Chinese coin names. According to the “Annals and Foodstuffs, Number Two Coinage”, “Since the inception of Taiyi, there was money. The Tai’s and Gaoyang’s were gold, and there were Xiong’s and Gao Xin’s goods, and Tao Tang’s said Spring, the cloth of merchants and Zhouren, the knives of Qi people and monks. "Visible, goods, springs, cloths, knives, etc. are all other names for money. Among them, the use of money as a "spring" refers to the "flowing" (flow spreading) of "springs." From the names of copper coins such as “Great Spring 50′′, “Koizumi’s Straight One”, “Mount Spring”, “Shibu”, and “Buquan Spring” unearthed in this excavation, all these words are arranged in an array.

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October 26, 2024