Specifically speaking about the history of the Gansu Mint, Gansu has a long history in minting coins, but the beginning of the minting of machine-made coins in Gansu will be after the Republic of China, until the 15th year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1926 , Liu Yufen, the general of the National Revolutionary Army, transported the machinery and equipment set up by the Tianshui guard Kong Fanjin in the Tianshui Mint to Lanzhou, and established the Gansu Mint.
I also talked about Kong Fanjin when I shared copper coins before. If you have any questions, you can check the previous articles. At that time, the main focus was on casting copper coins, and at the same time, the Gansu version of Yuan Datou was also cast. It can be seen that Yuan Datou in the third year of the Republic of China was not cast in the third year of the Republic of China, but since 1926.
So why is the Gansu version of Yuan Datou more popular than the regular version? A very important reason is that its casting volume is much smaller. The reason is that there is a very short supply of silver in Gansu. When the silver dollar was made, two people had to be mentioned, one named Ma Tingxiao and the other named Ma Tingxiang. Ten thousand liang, this provides a sufficient source of materials for the initial casting of the Gansu version of the silver dollar.
Later, in order to ensure the continuous storage of raw materials, silver was purchased from various banks to be minted. The Gansu Mint stopped work in 1935, and restarted in 1948 to mint a batch of silver coins. This is a simple history of the Gansu Mint. .