Gansu National Coin And The History Of Behind

Gansu has a long history and splendid culture, is a stage of commodity trade, cultural exchange, ethnic migration between ancient Western nations and the Central Plains Dynasty, is the throat and golden section of the ancient Silk Road, even is the bridge and the key of foreign exchange of the Central Plains Dynasty; those minority living its territory has made a positive and outstanding contribution for the development and prosperity of ancient Chinese civilization. All kinds of currency which they used and circulated in ancient times is the history witness and physical miniature of the political ties, economic exchanges and cultural collision between different nations. There are Xixia coins casted by the Xixia Dynasty dominated North, also has all kinds of coins casted by the northern nationalities regimes such as Liao, Jin and Yuan; especially since the opening of the Silk Road, those coins used and circulated by Western nationalities, such as Turgi s, Chagatai, Karakhanid, are frequently found along the Silk Road in Gansu. The national currency of Gansu has its characteristics:continuity, diversity, blending nature, cherish, nationality, etc., showing a colorful, rich and varied characteristics. In this paper, through in-depth researching the ancient national currency used and circulated in Gansu and, to provides an important physical evidence for prosperity and the rise and fall of historical national relations and the Silk Road trade.