Research on Qin and Han Coins

Author: Jiang Ruoshi
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Publish Date: 1997-04-01
Features: Qin and Han coinage are the collecting objects of, and the study of Qin and Han coinage is also an important topic in the research of economic history and monetary history. Among them, the issue that concerns people and is entangled is the dating and classification of Qin and Han coinage. This is the foundation of the study of Qin and Han coinage, but it is also a difficult problem to solve. For example: Did half-bai coins exist before the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty? If they did, how could they be distinguished from the half-bai coins after the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty? The most commonly cast coin in the Han Dynasty is the five-bai coin, so how should the numerous five-bai coins be dated and classified? Etc. All of these are problems that have long troubled the research of economic history, monetary history, and coin collectors. Mr. Jiang Ruoshi is an older generation of archaeologists in our country. As early as the 1950s, when he led the excavation of the Han tombs at Shao in Luoyang, he proposed the dating and classification standards for the five-bai coins of the Han Dynasty. Today, this standard has been accepted by the archaeological and coin communities, and has even become a benchmark for dating tombs during archaeological excavations. Mr. Jiang has been tirelessly researching Qin and Han coinage since the 1950s, and this book is a collection of these research achievements. Mr. Jiang has also used archaeological excavations that can be dated to determine the dating and classification of Qin and Han coinage, employing typological methods, combined with coin molds and literature, to conduct a comprehensive study. Due to the scientific methodology, his research achievements not only surpass those of predecessors but are also far ahead of the current level today.