Seven Silk Road copper coins unearthed in Sigi

When villagers in Hongtai Village took soil and filled pits beside a fortune, they dug 17 pieces of “copper children”. According to Su Zhengxi, the Wenji librarian of the Xiji County Numismatic Museum who arrived at the scene, these "copper children" are coins and copper from the ancient Silk Road, each measuring 2.35 centimeters in diameter and 0.25 centimeters thick. It is a cow pattern, 3 of which have foreign languages. According to copper and patterns, the experts judged the coins used by the Guishui Dynasty of Central Asia in the same period as the Han Dynasty. This was the first time that the currency was discovered in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Only Xinjiang in China had discovered it.

Su Zhengxi introduced that in the past, Xiji County had discovered the Silk Road numismatics. The county numismatic museum had five or six Silk Road coins. However, these numismatic coins were discovered when mixed with other numismatic coins. This time it was discovered separately. The quantity is still the first time in our district. Historical records indicate that Xiji County is the northern section of the eastern path of the Silk Road, but there has been no significant discovery to prove this. This 17 precious frosted money has become a proof.

It is understood that the Silk Road is not only a trading road but also a money road. The circulation of the Silk Road money not only took on the functions of money, but also formed the money culture of the Silk Road. Wang Min Township is located in the south of Xiji County, in the Liupan Shanxi Province, about 45 kilometers away from Xiji County, and is connected to the east of Taiping Township, west of Hepingfeng Town and Xingping Township. Among them, the town of Yangmu, which is located in Taichung Township, is the original city site of Lund County, and the Han Dynasty was the famous city in this area. It is a necessary place on the Silk Road, and merchants frequently communicate with each other.