At present, most of the currency in circulation is paper money. Although paper money is not only used in modern times, it is also a very important currency in modern times. But in ancient times, the most widely used currencies were silver and copper coins, and we often saw a lot of silver when watching costume TV dramas. But is the ancient silver really the same as we thought? The result must surprise you.

In fact, ancient silver is very irregular, not as smooth and full as on TV. When people use it, they pay more attention to weight than appearance. The regular shadows people see on TV are mostly official coins, so they look much better. Although silver was a very important currency in ancient times, its value was also very high. Ordinary people can have a few silver dollars, even if they are rich. Most people still use copper coins as currency, because the value of this currency is relatively small and the transaction is more convenient. Many people may ask, silver is so valuable, is there a unit to measure it? If you release it now, how much is a silver or two worth? In fact, there was a set of standards in ancient times, but the standards of each dynasty were different, so we could not accurately estimate the value of a silver ingot.

In the history books about the Song Dynasty, there is a stone of rice, which we can get by conversion. At that time, a silver or two was probably worth how much it is now. 2000 copper coins can probably be converted into one or two pieces of silver, so we will use this as the unit of valuation for conversion. In Song Dynasty, the price of rice was about 300~600 yuan per stone. One tael of silver can basically buy 3~8 taels of rice. One stone of rice in the Song Dynasty was about 65 kilograms, so according to the current rice price, one or two pieces of silver is equivalent to about 900~ 1900 RMB.

In the Tang Dynasty, the value of one or two pieces of silver was different from that in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty only cost about 5 pence, and 10 bucket was a stone. In the Tang Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 1000 pieces of copper coins, which means that you can buy almost 200 dou meters. If calculated according to the current rice price, one or two pieces of silver can probably top more than 4 thousand yuan. So in ancient times, families who could spend money were not very poor, because from this situation, only wealthy families could have money.

Through the records of ancient materials, we can probably get the present value of one or two pieces of silver. Through conversion, we also know that the value of silver is still very high, unlike many robbed in TV dramas.