When some people complain that they are poor, they will say that they want to break a dollar into two halves. Today, this sentence must be a joke, because if you split the money in half, you can't spend it, but there was a dynasty in history that really did this, splitting the copper coins into two to spend. This era is the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the currency circulation was still very chaotic, and there was no unified copper coin. Moreover, at this time, wars often occur, and various regimes are constantly competing. So at this time, prices are getting more and more expensive, and the value of money is not so high. In ancient times, copper coins were generally made by the government, but at that time, the coins kept by the government became smaller and smaller, and the manufacturing process was very rough.

Therefore, many folk workshops began to make copper coins privately. Some workshops cut a five-baht copper coin, so that one copper coin becomes two and circulates in the market together with the officially made coins. This also caused the chaotic currency circulation in the market at that time. Many people still used the cut money for personal gain, but the price was borne by the people. The fact that these currencies can circulate in the market is enough to show that the economic situation at that time was still very chaotic. The value of money is not high, and prices are also high. Because the political situation at that time was unstable and the economic development was not good, the people also lived a poor life.

Therefore, the inaction of the government and the underdeveloped technology of casting money are the reasons for this phenomenon. In the later dynasty, many rulers paid great attention to the development of public welfare of casting money, that is, they were afraid of the recurrence of chaos that was not conducive to market order, and also dealt a blow to the chaos of private casting money, and offenders were severely punished.