我国铜钱体系自成一体,自春秋中后期开始,至清末沿用不绝,约有二千五百多年的历史。在此期间,钱币制造技术也不断地改进和发展,从钱币的铸造方法看,可以将其分为两类方法:范铸法和机制法。范铸法自春秋至清末,是我国古代使用时间最长的钱币制造方法,唐代以前基本使用硬模铸造,唐以后母钱翻沙铸钱法开始盛行,一直延续到清末。清光绪年间西方的机器制钱法引入中国,引 China’s copper coin system is self-contained and has been in use since the late Spring and Autumn of late Qing Dynasty. It has a history of over 2,500 years. In the meantime, coin manufacturing technology has also been continuously improved and developed. From the coin casting method, it can be divided into two types of methods: Fan casting method and mechanism method. From the Spring to the Late Qing Dynasty, Fan Zhuangfa is the most used coin manufacturing method in ancient China. Before the Tang Dynasty, the basic use of hard-mold casting began after the Tang dynasty began to flourish, till the late Qing Dynasty. During the Qing dynasty, the western machine-made money law was introduced into China