燕齐圜钱的比较研究

战国晚期燕国和齐国铸行的方孔圆钱在形制、钱文等方面有着诸多相似之处,二国之圜钱联系密切。燕国圜钱的铸行晚于齐国,在币值的分等和铸造技术等方面也不如齐国进步。齐国圜钱为三等币值,燕国为二等币值;齐币已使用当时先进的叠铸技术,而燕币的铸造尚不见此法的应用。可以认定燕国圜钱是受到齐国圜钱的影响后产生的,这同齐襄王退燕以前燕国刀币对齐国货币强烈影响的态势有所不同。

A Comparative Research of the Round-coin of Qi and Yan in the Period of the Warring States

There are certain similarity in such aspects as the form,characters of the round-coin with a square hole which Yan and Qi cast in the later period of the Warring States,the connection of the round-coin between two countries was close.The Yan's round-coin casting was later than Qi's,and was not as good as Qi's in the view of the value grade of the money and casting technology,etc.The former carried out the second-class value system of money while the third-class carried out in the Qi State where the advanced pile-up-casting had been occurred already,then we can assert that the Yan State was influenced by Qi,and learned from its money system to casting round-coin,this situation was different to the influence on the knife-shaped-coin from Yan in the later period of the Warring States before the Yan's army retreated from the Qi State.