In recent years, more and more people are interested in shareholders, especially ancient coins, with the broadcast of various film and television dramas about grave robbery and archaeology. Not long ago, it was exposed by the media that a teenager in Liaoning was obsessed with ancient coins and spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy them. Some netizens began to think about why some people collect ancient coins and what role ancient coins play in historical research. Ancient coins actually represent a kind of culture in contemporary enlightenment, which can reflect people's spirit and thoughts when casting coins in ancient times, and then reflect the social economy and historical culture of an era. ?

China's research on ancient coins has a long history. In recent years, many research achievements have been made in monetary culture, national characteristics, political and economic characteristics and artistic characteristics. When we get an ancient coin, the first thing we see is patterns and words. The patterns on ancient coins are often the embodiment of a national culture. On the back of the square hole money, there are some suns, moons, stars and some plants and animals. Different patterns represent different national cultures. People represent history and culture. In the pre-Qin period, the seal script was mostly used, and after the Qin dynasty, the seal script was mostly used, followed by official script and regular script. We can study the calligraphy art of different dynasties from the characters of ancient coins.

In addition to the words and patterns on the surface, we will also study the materials of ancient coins. We first used shells as coins, which is today? Is it expensive? 、? Cheap? The word "equality" is the reason why the word "Bei" is biased. Later, there was smelting technology, and coins were cast with various metals. Therefore, ancient coins with the same material can help us to study the development of smelting technology and casting technology in different periods, and then draw the degree of scientific and technological development in different dynasties. ?

In fact, the study of ancient coins not only plays an important role in our study of history, but also increases our recognition of our own culture, thus enhancing our cultural self-confidence. At the same time, the ancient coin system can also provide some reference for our economic development today.