How many silver dollars are left in the world?

Many people think that there are many people left in the world, but in fact there are not many. From the following statistics on the number of silver dollars, we can roughly judge how many people still exist.

Before 1. big head casting (1889- 19 14), the amount of various silver dollars was 220 million yuan.

According to the statistics of Bank Weekly, from the time when Zhang Zhidong started casting silver coins in Guangdong in the 15th year of Guangxu, to the end of 19 13, the national * * * silver coins were about 220 million yuan. According to other data, when 19 15 first introduced new coins, people investigated the amount of old coins to be exchanged: silver 2000.

2. During the period of Beiyang Government (19 14- 1928), the amount of various silver dollars was11300 million yuan.

According to the statistics of the quantity table of silver dollars destroyed during the Beiyang government, by 1928, the Yuan Datou of each factory was about 107 billion yuan. In addition, it is estimated that the total amount of silver dollars not destroyed at the end of the Qing Dynasty will not exceed1300 million yuan, because casting new coins, especially as national currency, requires a unified monetary system and recycling old coins for casting, which is also the reason why the National Monetary Regulations stipulates that 90% of silver is actually cast. If the color is high, the new coins will be collected or destroyed privately and cannot be circulated.

3. During the Kuomintang period (1928- 1935), before the reform of legal tender, the amount of various silver dollars was15-1700 million yuan.

1927 After the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Kuomintang government stopped casting "Yuan Tou Coin" and changed it to Sun Yat-sen's founding commemorative coin, commonly known as "Xiao Tou", which was handed over to mints in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin, Zhejiang and Sichuan to cast drums. The exact number is unknown. According to the data of the largest Tianjin Mint in China at that time, 90 million pieces were cast. Calculated by the mint's and Tianjin Mint's coin-making capacity, the total number is about 300 million pieces.

After 1933, the Kuomintang government "abandoned two coins and changed them into yuan", and the recovered old coins were uniformly cast by the Shanghai Central Mint. During the period of 1933- 1935, Chuanyang produced147,442,329 pieces.

Bank Weekly estimates that the total amount of silver coins minted in China is1627.225 million yuan, the amount of foreign currency circulating in China is estimated to be 80 million yuan, and the total amount of silver coins circulating in China is1707.225 million yuan.

Four, after the cancellation of circulation to before the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) (1935- 1949), the existing amount of various silver dollars was 560 million yuan.

1934, the United States promulgated the Silver Act and implemented the policy of buying silver at a high price, resulting in a large amount of silver dollars flowing out of China. According to A Brief History of China's Modern Economy, Shanghai's silver reserves (accounting for 30% of the country's total reserves) fell from 547 million yuan to 276 million yuan. Enterprises with tight money suddenly closed down, and the Kuomintang government was forced to carry out currency reform, issue paper money and abolish the circulation of silver dollars. By the end of the Japanese blockade in 1938, the accumulated export of silver was1044.5 million yuan, which is only normal official statistics, and does not include a large number of smuggling under the control of Japan. At that time, the ratio of silver dollars to silver ingots in circulation in China was about 8: 1. During this period, most of the silver dollars and silver ingots were destroyed by the United States and became the national reserves of the United States.

1935 during the reform of legal tender, the Kuomintang government recovered about 300 million silver dollars from the people. By 1948, when the Kuomintang government reformed the currency system again, it was estimated that there were 550 million silver dollars left in China, and about 20% of the silver dollars were recovered by issuing "golden coupons".

1949, before the Kuomintang government moved the capital, it resumed the silver standard system, re-manufactured and issued silver coins exactly like the twenty-third edition, and entrusted the United States and Shanghai to cast about 43.6 million pieces.

1949, the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan, taking away about 32 million silver dollars (another way of saying it is 55 million yuan), excluding 500,000 senior officials and rich people who moved to Taiwan.

Five, the number of silver dollars that can be seen now is less than 80 million.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the government completely banned the circulation of silver dollars and recycled them in large quantities for a long time. Some people say that according to bank statistics, 480 million yuan has been recovered, so the silver dollar that can be seen in the collection field is less than 654.38+0 billion, which may be between 50 million and 80 million. The number of local privately cast and post-cast triangular elements is not enough to affect the overall scarcity of silver elements, and there is also a lack of statistical data.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the recovery of silver dollars was relatively thorough. In order to maintain the status of the RMB, the people's government completely banned the circulation of silver dollars as currency, and for a long time artificially depressed the value of silver dollars through low-cost recycling, which made the people feel that silver dollars could not be used as currency and had no collection value, and almost all of them were recovered by the government. After the reform and opening up, the remaining part of the silver dollar was destroyed into various silver ornaments, leaving little. As for the whereabouts of the silver dollar recovered by the government, there is no information to study. There is a post on the internet that about 470 million pieces have been recycled, most of which are used as industrial raw materials. At present, there are about 50 million pieces of silver dollars in the private sector, and at most there will be no more than 80 million pieces. 20 10 after a round of goods sweeping, the price of silver dollars quadrupled, which also shows that there are not many silver dollars left in the private sector.