Why are the ancient copper coins in China the most valuable?

Hello, China learned to cast bronze 5,000 years ago, and copper has become an indispensable production and living element for the development of our nation. For most of 5000 years, the status of copper was higher than that of gold and silver. Before the end of the Ming Dynasty, a country could live without gold and silver, but it could not live without copper. Many dynasties perished because of the shortage of copper. It can be said that a large part of China's history is the history of copper, rice, salt and iron, and it has nothing to do with politics, which serves copper and iron.

I don't like to answer what kind of money was the most valuable in ancient China. Since the Qin Dynasty, China people have not lived and worked in peace and contentment for many days. Even in the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, there were serious land annexation and refugees who gave up their household registration because they lost their land. We often praise these prosperous times because so many copper coins were cast in this period, but forget that there will still be suffering behind these huge copper coins.

The most valuable copper coins in China are nothing more than fifty treasures, but most of these fifty treasures appeared in the weakest era of our nation. In these turbulent times, because of the lack of copper, most vagrants have no copper coins available. Their lives are like dirt, and they live hopelessly in endless vagrancy all their lives. Some of them may have never seen what copper coins look like in their whole lives, and these copper coins have become the treasures we are talking about today. When we only care about how much these rare coins are worth, have we ever seen too much blood and suffering behind these huge treasures?

Copper coins are the history of China. If we only care about how much they are worth, it is not our original intention to play with coins. Every copper coin has a story of vicissitudes. It is more meaningful to feel the honor and disgrace of our nation through a small copper coin and understand the rise and fall of each dynasty than to know their RMB price.