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Renminbi 200 yuan

Current: 1 two silver: around 80 yuan.

Due to the different monetary value of silver in different dynasties, the general equivalent exchange method is generally used to calculate the value of ancient coins. For China people, rice is an eternal commodity for people's livelihood. Based on the record of rice price in Taiping years, we can roughly calculate the monetary value of silver.

According to historical records, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two taels of rice of average quality. At that time, one or two ounces of rice was about 94.4 kilograms, and one or two ounces of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 kilograms. At present, the rice eaten by ordinary families in China is between 5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty1. Based on the median price 1.75 yuan, it can be calculated that one or two pieces of silver in the Ming Dynasty = 660.8 yuan.

If these two pieces of silver were obtained in the Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power would be higher. During the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhenguan, a barrel of rice sold for only five pence. Usually, one or two ounces of rice can be converted into 65,438+0,000 copper coins (also called consistency), so you can buy 200 buckets of rice. 65,438+00 ounces of rice is a stone, which was about 59 kilograms in the Tang Dynasty. Based on today's average rice price 1.75 yuan a catty, one tael of silver is equivalent to 46,600 yuan. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the price of rice rose to 10, and one or two ounces of silver = 2065 yuan.

What needs to be added is that before the Song Dynasty, the total amount of silver was too small and its value was too high, and it had not yet become a currency in circulation. It only exists in court decisions and accounting settlement, such as taxation, state payment and so on. Before the Ming Dynasty, copper coins were used in the market (paper money appeared in some areas of the Song Dynasty), and foreign trade was active in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only after the influx of foreign silver.