In the late Shang Dynasty, bronze shells also emerged.

In the West, the Lydians of Asia Minor were considered the inventor of metal coins.

The copper shells in the Shang Dynasty were hundreds of years earlier than the Lydian coins, and can be called the earliest metal coins of mankind.

As a currency, copper shells have durability and value ratings that are more suitable for circulation.

The unilluminated copper shells cast in bronze do not deviate from the original shell shape and are divided into hollow and solid two types.

The ventral surface imitates shells to create a groove, divided into straight or curved teeth, and the tooth patterns can be vaguely visible.

The back is raised without decoration.

Some people have a small hole in it to make it easier to wear a few shells together.

For the shell coins of the Shang Dynasty, although nearly 7,000 natural sea shells were unearthed at one time in Fu Hao's tomb in Yinxu, Anyang, at present, the value of these natural sea shells is not very high, but they are not very common in the collection market.

Copper shells from the Shang and Zhou dynasties are currently hard to encounter in the collection market.

What Chen Wenzhe saw were naturally fakes, and there were really many gold coins in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, gold shells appeared again, which was to wrap an extremely thin layer of gold foil on the surface of the copper shells. It was not only beautiful, but also added value reflection.

It turned out that Chen Wenzhe bought a whole set from this prodigal son in Xiaohai City, but that time, what I saw was a lot of gold coins.

The "Chu Xiaoguan Zou" unearthed from the tomb of Liu Sheng, King Jing in Zhongshan, Beihe City, has a very mature gilding technique.

There are still many gold coins in the entire version, so it is a big deal that these tomb robbers are willing to sell them.

There were more gold coins in the Song Dynasty, while there were even fewer gold, silver and copper coins with no collection value.

The eight-style book of Chunhua Yuanbao is also known as the "eight-style money-set".

Therefore, in the minds of many collectors, the gilded shell has no certain status and mystery, and its collection value can be said to be evident.

The "Chunhua Yuanbao" written in the following book is all read in a row, divided into eight styles: official script, running script and cursive script, all of which are imperial pens.

Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, the ancients had mastered the craftsmanship during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

It was a long time ago, imitations appeared in both Xiangjiang and the mainland.

That kind of process is also called fire gold plating, gold coating, gold plating, gold plating, gold plating, flowing gold, etc.

Now that money is circulating too much, and there are very few fakes!

Therefore, no experts and scholars believe that the initial time of the gilding process should be set in the late Spring and Autumn Period or the early Warring States Period.

After all, it is gold. Even if you are afraid of being discovered as an ancient coin, you can't melt it into special gold bars and take action.

Below the perforation is the Lord’s “Virusa Buddha”, sitting cross-legged under the lotus throne, giving the “Dhistorical Seal”.

Like "Chunhua Yuanbao", "Yu implies the meaning of official script, the writing is steady, thick and dignified, and the writing is subtle.

There is no other type of official script, which gathers at eight points next to the character "Chun" and "Shui". Therefore, the numismatic community calls it "Shrinking Chunhua", and its casting volume is very large.

For ten young people, Chunhua money that has risen and risen in the spring city of Hainei, so I have to avoid being mixed with fish eyes.

For example, among the cultural relics unearthed from the Chu Tomb in Changtaiguan, Xinyang, the shapes of "die" and gilded copper belt hooks are not as stylish as the early Warring States Period.

The strokes of the cursive seven-body dots and strokes fly, the pen moves dragons and snakes, and the pen is smooth and elegant, and the opening and relaxation are not as smooth as a horse gallops, and the elegance is not as elegant as a Jin and Song style.

Those who can possess bronze products are symbols of power and wealth.

According to historical records, when the iron coins were cast, they stopped after only one year of age.

Let’s talk about this kind of gold coins on the back of Buddha. This is more than 2,000 people found in the Temple Pagoda of Qitai Mountain in the spring of 1988.

In 2020, the one who won the first prize in the coin auction was a gold offering of "Chunhua Yuanbao" and "Eight Buddhas".

The Chu Kingdom gold coins are the earliest gold coins in your country. They are cut and weighed when used, so what you find now is basically broken!

If a minister can receive the rewarded copper shell, it will be of great honor.

There are not many money scattered yet, and it is said that the things in the hands of collectors and spring merchants in the country are rarely suspected to be handicrafts.

In the spring of 1988, a construction team in Fuping County, which was undergoing repair operations at the Zhongtai Dingyanjiao Temple in Qitai Mountain, dug several batches of Chunhua Yuanbao money on the foundation.

That's because the casting is too expensive, so the amount of Chunhua Yuanbao is very large, which is one of the folk coins, and is particularly worthy of your attention.

Chunhua Yuanbao is a kind of Northern Song Dynasty coin. It was minted in the first year of Chunhua (990 AD) of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. It has eight kinds of gold, copper and iron.

When the news unearthed from Qitai spread, the vast amount of money in the market had not been included in the foresight.

The gold coins are about 24 mm in diameter and weigh about 12 grams.

Although the gilded copper shells that have been treated in this way have gone through vicissitudes and have not peeled off in a few places on the surface, they still look luxurious and dazzling, which makes people feel lovely.

I think that if there are some bad images in China, I will find it not a single nest. Even if Cheng Ningrui checks the collection of a group of tomb robbers, he can find a small batch, and he thinks that there are very few things.

The seventh common type of gold coins, if it is not Chu gold coins.

It is not a technique to apply the mercury agent made of gold and mercury to the surface of the copper ware, and evaporate the mercury before cooling, so that the gold firmly adheres to the surface of the copper ware.

For gilded shells, the specific production step is to cast copper shells and then gilt the whole body on the copper shell layer.

Gilding is a metal processing technology that was summarized and created by the working people in production labor in ancient times.

There are eight Buddha statues cast on the back of the coin. Judging from their sitting posture, they are supposed to be the Eight Saints of Huayan, also known as the Eight Saints of Sakyamuni.

The iron coins with only ten were cast by Zhao Anyi, Zong Zhengduoqing of the seventh year of Chunhua, and was cast in various prefectures along Sichuan and Shaanxi.

It cannot be said that if you can’t make preparations for storing those gold coins, why not just do it?

This is the gilded shell coins of the Warring States Period, which is the very conspicuous ancient gold coins that Chen Wenzhe saw at first sight.

Because the bronze at that time was still regarded as the best material.

The overall picture forms a picture of "Manjushri and Seven Bodhisattvas of Samantabhadra assisted the Dharmakaya Buddha in preaching the Dharmakaya". During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it seemed that they still mastered the gilding technique.

The money is as small as a big flat, with one person on the right and one on the left.

Apart from those two kinds of gold coins, none of them were very famous in the Song Dynasty, but the common gold coins were not the Chunhua Yuanbao-backed Golden Buddha that Cheng Ningrui had obtained later.

It can also be divided into large flats and 10 taels of money.

After the gilded shells, there are many transactions in the market, because there are few existences and few are not available, so the collectors who have played with the young coins have never seen the real thing.

Chunhua Yuanbao and gold coins were found on Mount Qitai, Xishan. It was offered money to the royal family in Chunhua, and it was widely circulated.

Looking at his money writing, I saw that the graceful and elegant man had charming dance, plump and vigorous, giving people a beautiful enjoyment and making people savor it.

In fact, compared to my gold coins, Chu gold coins are really very common.

The Buddha statues on the right and left side of the mouth are "Manjushri" and "Samāah" seven Bodhisattvas.

At that time, all the people present were snatched away, and a total of 1,343 were recovered (another saying 1,341) were recovered.

The face of this money is written as "Chunhua Yuanbao", and the front is engraved with "Four" above the top of the capital.
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