19世纪初期清代铜钱产量与当时银贵钱贱关系的考察

Investigation of relationship Between Output of Copper Cash in Early Qing Dynasty of 19th Century and the Phenomena of Silver Expensive but Copper Cash Cheap

世纪初至鸦片战争前的数十年间,清政府平均每年生产-余万串铜钱,投放商品货币市19200210场。但与此同时,通过对外贸易顺差收入、粤海关税银收入、清政府库银减贮等形式,中国商品货币流通领域内源源不断地进入大量白银,从而使中国商品货币市场纹银与铜钱间的数量比率基本保持平衡。这说明世纪初期19铜钱生产数量与鸦片战争前的银贵钱贱之间没有因果关系。

During the decade from early 19th century to the Opium Wars, the government of Qing Dynasty produced over 200 to 210 strings of copper cash averagely in a year, and put them into market after that. But meanwhile, large amount of silver entered the circulation field of Chinese commodity currency continuously through the income of foreign trade surplus and Guangxhou Customs taxes, and the reduction in silver stock of Qing Government, thus making the quantity ratio between fine silver and copper cash basically balanced. This shows that there is no causality between the output of copper cash produced in the early 19th century and the phenomena of silver expensive whereas cash cheap before the Opium Wars.