China Coin Museum

China Coin Museum

Founded in 1992, China coin museum is a national Coin Museum directly under the head office of the people's Bank of China. The museum is located in No.17 courtyard, xijiaomin lane, Xicheng District, Beijing. Among them, the former Beiyang Baoshang bank and the former Beiping branch of the central bank are national cultural relics protection buildings, which are the physical witness of the development of China's modern financial industry.

Adhering to the tenet of serving the central bank and the society, and adhering to the mission of promoting the currency culture, the China coin museum is mainly engaged in the collection, display and research of ancient and modern currency and banking history. It is the affiliated unit of the China Coin Society and the Committee of the China coin and banking Museum, as well as the main member of the International Committee of numismatics and the international monetary and Banking Commission It is the governing body of icomon.

The museum has a rich collection, and successfully held such influential exhibitions as "ancient Chinese coin casting craft Exhibition", "anti fake currency Exhibition" and "red regime currency Exhibition". Chinese coin is a well-known magazine at home and abroad, which has a wide influence in the industry. The museum presided over the development of "ancient Chinese silver ingot casting technology", "ancient Chinese coin casting technology research" and other topics, and achieved fruitful results, respectively won the first and second prizes of National Bank Science and technology development.

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Development history

Founded in 1992, China coin museum is a national Coin Museum directly under the head office of the people's Bank of China. The museum is located in No.17 courtyard, xijiaomin lane, Xicheng District, Beijing. Among them, the former Beiyang Baoshang bank and the former Beiping branch of the central bank are national cultural relics protection buildings, which are the physical witness of the development of China's modern financial industry.

Adhering to the tenet of serving the central bank and the society, and adhering to the mission of promoting the currency culture, the China coin museum is mainly engaged in the collection, display and research of ancient and modern currency and banking history. It is the affiliated unit of the China Coin Society and the Committee of the China coin and banking Museum, as well as the main member of the International Committee of numismatics and the international monetary and Banking Commission It is the governing body of icomon.

The museum has a rich collection, and successfully held such influential exhibitions as "ancient Chinese coin casting craft Exhibition", "anti fake currency Exhibition" and "red regime currency Exhibition". Chinese coin is a well-known magazine at home and abroad, which has a wide influence in the industry. The museum presided over the development of "ancient Chinese silver ingot casting technology", "ancient Chinese coin casting technology research" and other topics, and achieved fruitful results, respectively won the first and second prizes of National Bank Science and technology development.

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Main collection

The exhibition in the China coin museum includes "the display of Chinese currency of past dynasties", "the exhibition of Chinese ancient coin casting technology" and "the exhibition of the history of the people's Bank of China". The "exhibition of Chinese ancient currency" is located on the second and third floors of the current exhibition hall of China Coin Museum (the former Beiyang Baoshang bank). It is composed of "exhibition of Chinese ancient currency" and "exhibition of Chinese modern currency". It is the earliest basic exhibition of China Coin Museum and is always on display to the public. The "exhibition of Chinese ancient coin casting technology" is located on the first floor of the current exhibition hall of China Coin Museum The exhibition hall is a special exhibition developed by the China Coin Museum. The exhibition of the history of the people's Bank of China is located in a hall like building in the China Coin Museum. It is an exhibition of the history of the people's Bank of China based on the exhibition of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the people's Bank of China. It is a vivid review of the history of the central bank.

There are more than 300000 ancient and modern coins and other cultural relics related to coins in China Coin Museum. According to the six categories of ancient coins, gold and silver coins, paper money, minority coins, foreign coins, money models and cultural relics related to coins, the collection and safekeeping of them are arranged.

Academic value

In the collection of China Coin Museum, there are many precious cultural relics with high academic value, such as the Shang Dynasty copper imitation shell unearthed in Zheyu, baodelin, Shanxi Province, the golden shell and silver shell unearthed in Zhongshan, Hebei Province, the silver cloth unearthed in Fugou, Henan Province during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Warring States "half circle" unearthed in Shaanxi Province, and the complete Chu gold plate, copper coin plate and the Song Dynasty jiudiezhuan "Huangsong Tongbao" ”Gold foil in Liao and Jin Dynasties, Daming Tongtong Baochao issued by Zhongshu Province in Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 52 gold ingots, etc. there are precious coins issued in China's ethnic minority areas in past dynasties, such as hankha DITI coin of Liuzhu and 24zhu, tuqishi coin, Uighur coin, Chahetai gold coin, silver ingot of Jin Dynasty "Cheng'an treasure" unearthed in Heilongjiang Province, and "Yuande treasure" of Xixia Dynasty The central Tibet region and Xinjiang region are the most abundant in coins; there are coins issued by the people's political power in various revolutionary periods, such as the coins issued by the peasant association during the first Civil Revolutionary War, the coins issued during the second Civil Revolutionary War, the Anti Japanese War and the Third Civil Revolutionary war. Among them, some coins issued by guerrilla areas are also systematically collected in the museum. After the establishment of the people's Bank of China, various sets of RMB samples, gold and silver and other commemorative coins are the characteristics of this museum.

Other cultural relics related to coins are also collected in the China Coin Museum, such as various coin models, including copper shell model, empty head cloth model, five baht coin model, molds, machines and tools of modern machine-made silver coins, banknote version of paper money, as well as coin tree, sword, and Puman related to coin culture.

There are also coins from more than 100 countries in the world in the China Coin Museum, among which gold and silver coins and modern paper money from various countries in the 19th century account for a large proportion.

The numismatic literature is also a collection item of the Chinese Numismatic Museum. The museum has collected more than 13000 books and 5000 periodicals, which provides necessary conditions for the study of numismatics and the history of money.

Academic research is one of the three major tasks of museums. Since its establishment, the museum has been engaged in the following aspects: the theory of numismatics, the origin of Chinese currency, pre Qin currency and currency characters, alloy materials of coins of previous dynasties, the corrosion and anti-corrosion of ancient Chinese banknotes, people's regime currency, gold and silver commemorative coins, the simulation of ancient Chinese model casting process, the research on the casting process of ant nose coin of Chu state, the casting process and origin of sand casting method, the protection of cultural relics exhibited in the museum, and the protection of coins A lot of research work has been done on the scientific identification of currency cultural relics. More than 100 papers have been published, and many papers have won awards. Several monographs have been published or will be published soon. The museum maintains academic exchanges with relevant institutions in more than ten countries and regions around the world, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada and Japan. It regularly conducts academic exchanges with relevant domestic institutions and holds academic lectures from time to time.

Practical information

Opening Hours

Tuesdays to Sundays, 9:00-17:00 every day (ticket sales stop at 16:00) and closed on Mondays.

Ticket information

Ordinary ticket: with ID card

Retired personnel: voucher free

Student groups: free of charge, but advance booking is required

Primary and secondary school students: free ticket with student card

Traffic information

Bus routes

Take a bus to Qianmen station, or get off at Qianmen West and Tiananmen station.

Metro

Exit C of Qianmen station of Metro Line 2, 50m Northwest

Address: 17 xijiaomin Lane

Longitude: 116.39495

Latitude: 39.902051

Tel: 010-66081385

Official website: http://cnm.com.cn

Ticket information: 10 yuan

Opening hours: 9:00-16:00 every day

Ticket sales will be suspended at 15:30 and closed on Monday.

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