燕齐圜钱的比较研究

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

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。

There are certain similarity in such aspects as the form, characters of the round-coin with a square hole which Yah 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.