As of February 22, the collection price of an ordinary Yuan Datou silver dollar is between 55 and 7 yuan.
The price of the ordinary version of "Yuan Datou" with a face value of one yuan was around 6 yuan in 25, and it rose to around 12 yuan in 26, but now it is less than that in 2 yuan. The "Yuan Datou" with a face value of 5 cents has also risen from 3 yuan in 25 to 5 yuan.
Yuan Datou was one of the major currencies in circulation during the Republic of China. "Yuan Datou" is a colloquial name for Yuan Shikai's series of coins. To be precise, it is called "Yuan Shikai's elephant carrying golden harvest silver coins". In order to rectify the monetary system, the Beiyang government drew a silver coin. In February of the third year of the Republic of China (1914), it promulgated Article 13 of the Regulations on National Currency and decided to implement the silver standard system.
Extended information:
In the collection market, Yuan Datou in the Republic of China and Long Yang in the central edition of the Qing Dynasty are the most common silver coins. According to the casting years, the most concerned editions can be divided into three years, five years, eight years, nine years and ten years of the Republic of China. Among them, the five-year version of the Republic of China, with Yuan Shikai's sideways head on the front and wheat ears and a circle on the back, has less casting volume and higher market price. Another is that Sun Yat-sen's head is sideways on the front, and Sun Yat-sen's portrait is a silver coin commemorating the founding of the People's Republic of China with the words of wheat ears and a circle on the back.
there are two other categories, one is the ship version of "Yuan Datou", with the words "Yuan Datou" on the front and the words "double sailboats" and "one circle" on the back. The other kind is "Han" coins and silver dollars. The front is "Sichuan Silver Coin" and "One Yuan", and the back is eighteen circles around the traditional Chinese character "Han". According to the casting place, there are local silver coins from Tianjin, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Gansu and Sichuan.
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