Today, I would like to share with you the concepts of money samples, carved mother, mother money, iron mother, and sample money in Qing Dynasty coins. Before we understand them, we must know how Qing Dynasty coins were minted.
First of all, let’s look at a picture. Older friends in the countryside should have seen it. There are some sand-casters making some daily necessities in the countryside. Generally, aluminum materials are used because the melting point of aluminum is relatively low, and the cost is relatively low. , The method they used is the sand-finding method, which is the same as the principle of coin casting.
Let’s look at this picture again. This is simulating the sand casting method. First, two such wooden boxes are used to press the shape of the fine sand with a coin mold. The front and back sides are present, and then the pressed front and back sides are pressed. There will be a channel for pouring copper liquid in the middle of the box together, and then the molten copper liquid will be poured in.
Then after it cools down, open the box and it looks like this in the picture. Generally, this is called a money tree, and then the coins on the money tree are cut and polished, so that a coin is cast out. This is the method of sand casting money. .
Let’s talk about money samples. The money samples are usually carved from ivory, high-quality mahogany, lead or tin. They are sample money before the carved mother. The carved mother is used to cast the mother money. It’s less samples than the engraved mother. I’ll say that it’s easier for everyone to understand. From the material of the money sample, we can know that the money sample is a softer material than copper, which makes it easier to engrave. Before engraving the bronze mother First use these materials to find the feeling. If the carving results are good, then go to the bronze carving mother like this. We can also understand the money sample as a drawing, so that everyone can understand it easily.
Let’s talk about the engraving mother. Look at the coin in the picture. It is the engraving mother. The engraving mother is not cast, but hand-carved. You can see this from its name. We can clearly engrave the coin. You can see the hand-carved knife marks on the mother. The carved mother has a thick and exquisite body, and the characters are upright and strong. The ground seal is flat and presents a mirror effect, so as to ensure that the casted mother’s money will not be rough. The role of the carved mother is for casting. Mother money.
That is to say, the money made by using the carving mother as a mold and using the sand casting method is the mother’s money. The city of the carving mother is very rare, and the mother carving is a very important physical file, which is kept by the country at that time. At that time, it was absolutely not. Outflow, a carved mother can forge more money per mother, and then use these mother money to forge sub-money. These sub-moneys are the ordinary money we usually see and are also called working money. In this way, we probably Understanding the relationship between them, the mother Diaodiao is equivalent to the grandmother of the son Qian, so the mother Diao is sometimes called the grandmother’s money, and the mother’s money is equivalent to the previous mother.