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| Section Vgold and currency First, gold 1. Early monetary gold Gold silver, small size and value, beautiful color and luster, stainless steel is not bad, not too difficult to split, it is appropriate to the ideal metal for money. Less gold and silver production in ancient China, only part of the role of monetary functions. Gold and silver used as currency, according to ancient records have beenwhich is about history. Historical Records , said of currency, gold for the third grade, or yellow gold or white silver or red copper , there are third-class gold, gold, the platinum was in pure gold for the next . 41 pipe also said, Zhu Yu Wang for the currency to gold for coins, a knife under the cloth as currency. 42 Han is the view that the early Western Zhou Dynasty gold currencies has been a certain shape, there are statutory monetary system, it said The Housefor Zhou won nine law, confusion and re-pound of gold ... ...retire Alsofirm. 43 However, these claims also lack of archaeological evidence, however, Shang and Zhou replica watch cartier roadster dynasties, the role of monetary gold in the role, which we can be sure, in the Anyang and other places have been unearthed bronze bay and bay package. Spring and Autumn Period, gold is an important social and economic life has been one of the currencies, and early use of cartier replica watch copper coinage in parallel. Payment of a big deal at that time, the use of state-to-state contacts are gold, the feudal aristocracy, big business the sale of precious luxury, multi-Price to gold, such as the Chollima, like bed, sword, jade goblet, white fox fur, are denominated in daughter of the above. It is said that cartier there is a Korean-American, the price is very expensive, leaders can not buy it, after the Qin to spend 3000 gold to buy 44. Landowners, businessmen and property are often denominated in gold, boast of a house of gold. Tributary rulers, gift, reward, bribery also use gold. Such as wind, said Qin Wei, Hao Chen Bribe lords, but the 300,000 gold, and the leaders can do. 45 At that time, the lords of the copper coinage States - cloth, knives, iron and others have won a certain flow range, subject to geographical restrictions, and the gold can be access in all countries, not constrained by national borders and become an international currency. Gold as a currency, is a unit of weight of the weighing currency. Unit of gold, there are two, one burden , with two 16 First, Peter y, 22 kg. In fact the two are often a mix of units. Chu gold units called Yuan , so Chu gold currency, called the Yuan or Lukin. Chu is a prolific gold country, so future generations have unearthed the largest gold yuan. Yuan payment form, was originally a round cake or sheet-like 46, no inscriptions. Lead is also found in modern package cake to gold foil, silver foil of47, indicating that gold yuan at the time it is very common in a popular currency. Later, Jin Yuan in the development of sheet metal or the gold seal printed on the cake box and a small number of inscriptions, when used in accordance with the needs of the small box scuttling to pay the balance weighing. Inscriptions usually the word first, Yuan word, first name or names, such as Ying Yuan , Chen Yuan, special Yuan , Yuan , Lukin and so on. Ying Yuan to the most often, because for the Chu capital of Ying. Lukin is a seal of Lukin in small round gold printed sheet, which is about the late Chu gold coins. Lukin word is that this currency after refining furnace, pure golden mean. This is because the power failure State of Wei Chu, Ying Yuan currency declined to use the word Lukin to maintain monetary credibility. Based on a kind of laboratory analysis, Ying Yuan general gold for 97-98, 94-95 for Lukin. 48 Kim Chu Yuan in circulation at the same time, the northern countries called the exercise of a coin, won gold. Cake shaped like a round, concave at the bottom of the surface uplift, and some like a horseshoe, are engraved with the letter and said the weight of digital symbols. However, few physical artifacts. Early gold currency on the purchasing power of the few ancient records, but also the lack of comparison. Tube has been recorded, Su Ping Jia 40, the 4000 Jinja. 49 could be considered a value of 40 copper coins Su Shi, and equal to 4000 pound of gold coins. Tube that, a gold-yi, the best nightalso. Without payment of its silk, silk quarter of 33, when a system-yi not used its silk fabric, fabric by the storm, when 100 a-yi 50, we can see each piece silk price 14 baht half the value of gold, cloth of gold price per piece together five baht. In this regard, but also the need for further excavation and research. 2. The prevailing monetary gold | ||
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