“宋纸币版”的再检讨

Reconsideration of the Song Dynasty Printing Board for Paper Money of the Song Dynasty

本世纪30年代，日本著名钱币学家奥平昌洪出版了他的钱币学名著《东亚钱志》，书中发表了一块中国古代铜质纸币印版。长16、宽9．3厘米(图一)。奥平氏将这块版归人宋代，称为“会子铜版”。在此之前，罗振玉曾于1914年出版过《四朝钞币图录》，收录了当时可称宏富的古纸币有关发现品(包括纸币、铜版，铜印及照片)17件，已是洋洋大观，但所谓四朝者，金元明清。宋朝纸币文物，当时还未有闻。

The publication of a bronze printing board for paper money in East Asian Numismatics in Japan in the 1930 s shocked Chinese numismatists.However,its nature has remained unraveled until today.In the late Northern Song dynasty,jiaozi,a paper money in northwest China,was widely used,hurting badly the so- called yanchao or money connected with salt.What's worse,the bad situation of the salt factory in Xiezhou made it impossible to cash yanchao with salt.In the forth year of the Chongning reign period when the salt factory was repaired,the government issued new yanchao and qianyin,the former for payment to the revenue and the latter to replace jiaozi.The very board in cpiestion was made to print qianyin,which unfortunately functioned for only half a year due to the chaos in the monetary market.However,the board is the earliest tangible evidence to paper money in the would.