光绪三十年(1904年)八月,河南巡抚陈夔龙以“豫省银贱钱荒”为由,奏请朝廷在豫设局开铸铜元。随后,在开封南门外机器局内附设铜元局,并向美国新泽西州的汉立克纳浦厂(Ferracute Maching Company)订购造币机器。十月二十日,铜元局开机试制(图1)。河南是铸造铜元较晚的省份之一,铜元局仅有造币机器6具,后来扩增至9 Thirty years Guangxu (1904) In August, the governor of Henan Province, Chen Jilong, asked the court to set up a bronze coin at the bureau in Henan Province on the grounds that “hegemony was a waste of silver in the province.” Subsequently, a copper bureau was attached to the boarding machine outside Kaifeng South Gate and a coin-counting machine was ordered to the Ferracute Maching Company in New Jersey, USA. On October 20, the copper bureau started trial production (Figure 1). Henan is one of the provinces where copper late is cast, with only 6 coinage machines and later 9