最早参观西方机器制币的中国人赖茂功读《中国钱币》１９９１年第３期程卫红编译《伯明翰造币厂铸造的清朝样钱、广告钱、功牌、纪念章》一文颇感兴趣。该文述及１８６６年清官员“品春”或“品图仁（译音）”到欧洲访问造币厂事。读此使我想起我国最早到法国、英国参观机器制币的人和事，简述如下，或许能引起集币爱好者的兴趣。清政府第一批派遣赴西欧游历的官员是斌椿及随员四人，时在同治五年（１８６６年）。斌椿字友松，汉军正白旗人，生于１８０４年。随行者是其子广英及同文馆学生凤仪、德彝、彦慧。他们于１８６６年３月７日离开北京，５月２日到达法国马赛，他们先后游历了法国、英国、荷兰、汉堡、丹麦、瑞典、芬兰、俄国、普鲁士、汉诺威、比利时，至８月１９日离马赛回国，在欧洲近四个月。所见所闻，斌椿著有《乘槎笔记》一册。对在巴黎、伦敦参观造币厂均有记述。在巴黎参观造币厂时在１８６６年５月１２日。《乘槎笔记》载：（三月）二十八日，命广英等往看造钱，用火轮法，以水气冲激推机，命进退铁管中。机之一端，连大轮之枢，以运动长轴。轴置屋梁下，分系韦条，运千百小轮。大轮转则轴转，轴转则众轮俱转。轮有横直，各适其用，工匠分司之。钱质成圆，无孔。一一平其轻重，无纤芥 The earliest Chinese people who visited the Western machine coin Lai Mao Gong read “Chinese coins” 1991 the third period Cheng Weixong compiled “Birmingham Mint foundry like the Qing Dynasty money, advertising money, power cards, medals,” a article of interest. This essay refers to a visit to Mint by a Qing official in 1866, “Pin Chun” or “Pin Tu Ren (transliteration)”. Reading this reminds me of our earliest to France, the United Kingdom to visit the coin machine people and things, briefly described below, may be able to arouse the interest of coin lovers. The first group of government officials dispatched to visit Western Europe during the Qing government was Bin Chun and his entourage, who lived in Tongzhi for five years (1866). Bin Chun word Friends of pine, Han is a white flag, was born in 1804. Accompanied by his son Kwong Ying and students in the same school Fung Yi, Yi Yi, Yan Hui. They left Beijing on March 7, 1866, and arrived in Marseille, France on May 2. They traveled to France, Britain, the Netherlands, Hamburg, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Prussia, Hannover, and Belgium on August 19 From Marseilles to return home in Europe for nearly four months. Seen and heard, Bin Chun with a “ride 槎 notes” a book. There are accounts of mint visits in Paris and London. When visiting the Mint in Paris on May 12, 1866. “Take notes” contains: (March) on the 28th, life Guangying waiting to see the money, with the steamer law, to push the water vapor impulse, life and death in the iron tube. One end of the machine, even the hub of the big wheel, to exercise the long axis. Shaft beam house, the Department of Wei Road, transport thousands of small round. Large rotation is the shaft rotation, the shaft turn is all round of rotation. The wheel has horizontal and vertical, all suitable for use, craftsmen branch. Money into a circle, no holes. One by one level its weight, no fiber mustard