It's also silver. What's the difference between broken silver and silver ingots?

The difference between broken silver and silver ingots lies in their different denominations, which are generally used in different occasions. Before and after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, people traded gold and silver. After Hongwu issued precious paper money in eight years, the court ordered many times that people should not buy or sell gold and silver, and offenders would be prosecuted. However, the price of silver is still the standard for the government to issue paper money and mint money.

After Ming Yingzong acceded to the throne, he relaxed the ban on using silver, ordered rice and wheat to be converted into silver, and reduced various items of accepting paper money, using rice and silver as paper money. Since the Ming Dynasty, the price has been calculated in silver. Judging from the gold price, rice price and silk price of silver, the purchasing power of silver in Ming Dynasty was much higher than that in Song and Yuan Dynasties.

In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Jin Yiliang was about 12 San Qian, and in the Ming Dynasty it was 624 yuan and seven cents. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, one meter and one stone in the south of the Yangtze River was worth about 128 silver cents, while it was only nine cents and four cents in the Ming Dynasty. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, a silk horse was worth about 125 taels of silver and seven cents, but it was only six cents in the Ming Dynasty. According to the comprehensive calculation of this price, the purchasing power of silver in Ming Dynasty is about twice that in Song and Yuan Dynasties.

But there were still no silver coins in the Ming Dynasty. Silver used as currency is mainly cast into boat-shaped silver ingots (silver ingots) with both ends facing upwards. Silver bars and yards are rare, and small transactions use broken silver. Silver ingots vary in size, and one ingot of Dayuanbao weighs as much as 52 taels.

There are also 20 Liang. There are words such as casting place, weight and silversmith's name on it. The words on the small ingot are a little different. The weight of silver ingot and broken silver is uneven, and the color is also different. It is not convenient to weigh and identify the color every time you pay.

/kloc-in the 0/9th century, there were three kinds of silver in Beijing: broken silver, silver ingot and silver dollar. Broken silver and silver ingots are "made in China" and have different colors. Taking granular silver as an example, the author calculated the standard weight of one or two pieces of silver: 37.3 1g, and the weight of pure silver contained in one or two pieces of silver: 34.9g g. ..

The way to get broken silver is to cut the whole silver ingot into pieces for later use. Many people will crush the whole piece of silver directly, or pinch off this small corner on the whole piece of silver. If the ancients traded, if it was a small market or stall, they basically traded with copper coins. Unless you proudly kept the change, people wouldn't give you money, but if you went to a place that needed money, most shops had scales.