What is the symbolic meaning of coins?

Coins represent the beginning of a fate, a starting point of happiness. Life is peaceful, single-minded and smooth sailing, so in a sense, coins represent eternity.

Coin: Money made of metal. It has a history of thousands of years in China. The earliest metal coin is the Baode copper shell of Shang Dynasty, which has been more than 3,000 years. Metal coins have the advantages of convenient use, wear resistance and long circulation life. In addition to its own monetary function, it also has a high artistic appreciation and value preservation function.

Coins can be roughly divided into ordinary coins in circulation; Metal commemorative coins for circulation and precious metal commemorative coins for collection? . Among them, precious metal commemorative coins, commonly known as gold and silver coins, are expensive and have a small circulation. Due to political, economic and foreign exchange earning considerations, the state is now focusing on developing the international market in sales, and at the same time, it has begun to cultivate, base itself on the domestic market and promote it on a large scale throughout the country.

Commemorative coins and collector's coins: The word commemorative coins has been popular for a long time and seems to be synonymous with collector's coins. In fact, there is a difference between the two. Commemorative coins are special coins issued by sovereign issuers to commemorate someone, something, something, and its purpose is to give full play to its propaganda function with the help of coins as a mass media.

But commemorative coins can be circulating coins or collecting coins. As far as its use is concerned, circulating currency seems to have more publicity advantages. Most of the collection coins in the world today are commemorative coins, but the connotation of collection coins is wider than commemorative coins. It should include: commemorative coins, zodiac coins, scenic coins and various theme coins.

It seems difficult to apply the concept of commemoration to all kinds of theme coins, but there is no doubt that they belong to collection coins, that is, they are sold by sovereign issuers at a price higher than the face value, and are generally made of precious metals or ordinary metals, with limited circulation and announced to the public. Generally speaking, each coin has only a specific issue year.