Wude Kaiyuan in Early Tang Dynasty
Kaiyuan Bao Tong
Qianzhuang is a high-quality Kaiyuan money written by Ou Yangxun, which is closely supervised by Qianjian. Its main features are: good front and back, complete outline, deep Qian Wen, pure copper and excellent casting.
The Moon Marks in the Mid-Tang Dynasty and Kaiyuan
It looks like fingernail prints, and there are quite a few unearthed. On the Kaiyuan Qian Wen, the moon mark changed Ou Yangxun's dignified and steady Kaiyuan Qian Wen into a slender and delicate pen. The prefix "Yuan" is horizontally elongated, and the first three strokes of the word "Tong" are continuous twists and turns, and then evolve into continuous twists and turns.
Kaiyuan in the Late Tang Dynasty
In the sixth year of Huichang (AD 846), the casting guild was located in Kaiyuan, with a diameter as large as Kaiyuan, and the names of countries were cast on the back, such as "Jing" and "Chang" in Yangzhou.
Xiaojing kaiyuan
Refers to Kaiyuan coins with a diameter of 265,438+0 mm to 23 mm These small Kaiyuan coins may have been privately cast by the people in various periods.