Who wrote the words on the ancient coins and why?

China has been using money since ancient times, and it is also one of the earliest countries in the world to make money. Coins were the currency of things in various dynasties in China. Because it is made of pure copper, it is also called copper plate. Words have been left on coins in past dynasties. The handwriting on the coin is different from the calligraphy we see now. Her brushwork is simple and dignified, and her handwriting is neat and beautiful, natural and tall. The earliest recommendation to write on coins began in the Qin Dynasty. When copper coins first appeared, after Qin Shihuang unified the Central Plains, he asked for unified measurement, so that cars on the same track could write in the same language. So in AD 22 1 year, Qin Shihuang accepted the suggestion of Prime Minister Reese, forbidding the vassal states to use ancient Chinese characters, and all of them used Qin Zhuan as a unified writing font, and printed this font on coins. So the first coin with characters appeared, the small seal half-divided coin, that is, the round square hole copper coin with a weight of 1 1 g and a diameter of 32 mm used by Qin State.

The development of coins reached the Western Han Dynasty. After Wang Mang's reform, there was the fourth monetary system reform, which abolished large and small money. Jiang Da's penny was changed into two pieces of cloth and cargo springs, and Wang Mang changed the words of ten pieces of cloth and cargo springs into garter marks. The garter needle seal is a small seal, also known as the garter needle seal, and its nib is as sharp as a garter needle.

The words on copper coins are generally mentioned by big shots. The most like the copper coins we see now appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Kaiyuan Bao Tong was the most representative currency in the Tang Dynasty, and Bao Tong was a kind of yuan copper coin, which only began to exist in the Tang Dynasty. Due to people's use in the early Tang Dynasty, the five baht of Sui Dynasty was used in Tang Gaozu for four years because of its small size and easy mixing. Rectify the chaos. Money. So Bao Tong cast Kaiyuan. Replace the currency used in the sui dynasty. The original Kaiyuan Bao Tong was written by a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Ou Yangxun wrote it. Still use the Qin dynasty. Copper coins with round square holes are required to weigh one or two per ten pence and one or two per penny. In the later dynasties, the fonts on coins were specially inscribed by famous calligraphers at that time, and some coins even belonged to the monarch.