The Outline Of Baoqianmint

Baoqianmint is a mint in Guizhou province in the Qing Dynasty,which past it's probation at Bijie county town in the 8th year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty(A.D.1730)(for short Yongzheng 8th).After casting for 10 years,the agency was enlarged on its scale for its stable product performance:their furnaces were added from 10 to 20,and its production capability was increased from 36 mortises coins to 40 ones every year. After running 29 years,the Baoqianmint transferred into Guiyang city,capital of Guizhou province,because of shortcoming copper mine,and use Dian copper(Dian,abbreviation of Yunnan province).In Qianlong 35th(A.D.1770),Baoqianmint set up a office of 5 furnaces in Dading state(official residence of a county of Guizhou province),and in Guiyang city for 15 furnaces,and mostly use copper of Yunnan province.By the end of Qianlong,the price of coins of copper had being dropped gradually.In Qianlong 59th,Baoqianmint "stop casting forever",until Jiaqing 1st,the Baoqianmint came back casting coins of copper.During Emperor Daoguang,silver was expensive and coins of copper was cheap because of severity opium smuggling resulted a phenomenon of silver outlawing.Baoqianmint stopped casting coins because casting coins industry would have no benefit or lose money in business in Daoguang 4th(A.D.1824).Until Daoguang 23th,Baoqianmint was present to a superior for review and approval.During Emperor Xianfeng periods,in order to crackdown Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping Revolution(the largest of peasant uprisings in China's history inl851-1864 year),Qing dynasty government cast many kinds of big coins of copper including decades grades equal to 4 to 1000 small coins of copper while printed and issued paper money.Baoqianmint also cast coins of copper equal to 10 and 50 coins of copper but very short times.In the times of Emperor Tongzhi,a few of coins of copper were cast without even Baoqianmint cast.At the beginning of Emperor Guanxu,Baoqianmint collapsed for shortcoming of copper which comg from Yunnan provice so that the price of copper rise speedily.In Guangxu 14th(AD1888),every 100 jins copper sole at 10 taels of silver,and Guizhou offical coining department began to cast silver coins to market.After Guangxu 26th,copper coins which casted by machines from other provinces enter Guizhou and instead of the standard copper coins(made by the imperial mint during the Ming and Qing dynasties),and Guizhou never have restored to cast the square hole coins of copper.