Chapter 605 - Reaching Ying Wei (1/2)

Chapter 605: Reaching Ying Wei

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There were three types of currency in the Great Han Eold, silver, and copper coins Copper coins were an alloy of copper, aluminium, lead, and nickel The production of copper coins were coed by the imperial court The local authorities and the wealthy did not have the right to manufacture copper coins That would be a heavy crime, and it was rare for anyone to want to take such risks

But gold and silver coins were different These tere precious h gold and silver, they could ets This would create a lot of chaos Quite a few greedy people mixed metals that easily ets

In practicality, there were a lot of drawbacks to using natural gold nuggets and silver pieces as coins This was very detrixi Prefecture for example, the merchants had to have keen eyes and use their senses to feel if the weight and color of the gold and silver they got were genuine when receiving pay they would do eigh the gold and silver on the scale to confire, then the oould often use iron scissors and cut the silver into sood, then when the merchants saw it they could either not take it or take it at a discount This would cause a lot of discord Often, people would fight over one graood the quality of the silver was

The imperial court couldn’t deal with such matters so they could only let it be

There was also a sold coins on the old and silver coins It’s just that when soold, they made it into the shape of the copper coins These coins were very coarse and eighted differently Many of theevity, fortune, happiness, and such words that the wealthy families used to flaunt their status

The wealthy and elite of the Great Han Eold and silver coins, but for Yan Liqiang, turning gold and silver into coins contained a huge fortune, or the power to make money

If the coins the Qiyun Protectorate Office released flowed in theto accept and the credibility was built up, their prospects would be huge

However, no one in the Great Han Eht of forging coins, but they didn’t have the technology to do so

But for Yan Liqiang, this wasn’t a problee coins A hydraulic press printingto make since he had the blueprint in his brain Thieine and didn’t have complex parts while it was also durable and effective The ones he saw in his past life could still be used after 100 years of use

Yan Liqiang had already envisioned the coins he would release All the coins would have the primary value of one unit as the foundation One silver piece was ten silver coins, and one gold piece was ten gold coins This was easy to use and calculate…