Today, let’s talk about the Daquan Fifty Coins minted by Wang Mang. We talked about the Daquan Fifty Coins before but did not subdivide them. Then the Daquan Fifty Coins are the longest casting time since Wang Mang usurped power. Money is a relatively common species.
In the early days, the Daquan 50 rule weighed 12 baht, and 12 baht is equivalent to about 8 grams now, but the 50 thick ones we see now weigh more than ten grams, and the thin ones are even two to three grams, three to four grams. Everyone knows that Daquan fifty is equivalent to a big money as fifty. That is to say, a Daquan fifty should be exchanged for five baht money at that time. So at that time, Wang Mang’s purpose for making big money was very obvious. The wealth of the people.
The weight of a large spring fifty is equivalent to two and a half of the weight of five baht in the Western Han Dynasty, but it has to be used as 50 five baht coins. Every time a large spring fifty is issued, it will deprive the people of 47 and a half five baht. Money, so this also led to strong opposition from the people at the time. At that time, the Wang Mang regime stipulated that anyone who hid five baht in private and did not exchange it into Daquan Fifty would be regarded as a prisoner and enlisted in the army.
So at that time, people had no way to cast a lot of privately cast Daquan Fifty. Its weight was two or three grams as we just said. In fact, it is not much different from five baht money, and even lighter than five baht money. This avoids it. The wealth in his hands was searched by Wang Mang’s regime, but nowadays, people who play Daquan Fifty are not too few. Now people mainly play with the weight of Daquan Fifty in addition to appearance and pits.
In fact, it may also be related to half-two, that is, the heavier the weight, the higher its current market economic value. I hope that when you play such coins in the future, you can play according to the market conditions.