在清朝时期，货币、纸钞、铜币并行而存，直至嘉庆年间开始发行新式银元，但是光绪年间所铸金、银币更多。并且洋务运动对铸币业的影响也是不可忽视的。两广总督张之洞于1887（光绪十三年）年率先在英国订购全套造币机，开始了机制银元和铜元的制造。

宣统银币的制作工艺水平非常高，其观赏性也很高。造币总厂还根据《币制则例》规定，于宣统二年试制以圆为单位的大清银币一套。公元1911年（宣统三年）重新制模，试制宣统三年大清银币，主币的蟠龙图案版别非常多，计有长须龙、短须龙、大尾龙、反龙、曲须龙及签字版等诸多不同版别。宣统三年大清银币，新币刚试铸成功，正逢武昌起义，于是大部分新版银币胎死腹中，只留有少量样币。

重26.77g直径38.99mm厚2.30mm

近日征集到宣统三年大清银币曲须龙版一枚（如上图）。这枚钱币虽然不大，却表现出极强的“个性”和“艺术身价”。仔细观察，钱币的一面分为内圈和外圈两部分，内圈用繁体字刻有“大清银币”这四个楷体字，外圈则是满文与汉文的结合体――上方印有满族文字，下方刻制着清代皇帝的准确纪年――“宣统三年”这四个小字，满汉文字共同围绕在“大清银币”之外，其背面曲须龙胡须弯弯曲曲呈波浪状，隐藏在云海中若隐若现。

清朝宣统皇帝在位期间，铸币师们分别通过纯熟的技法和精良的手艺，最终将令人瞩目的大清货币铸造完成，并推行于市场。时至今天，经过几百年历史更迭的许多古钱币已经失去了它们原有的流通和支付功能，但却因存世量稀少而火热走俏于藏品市场。

这些集考古价值、艺术收藏价值和科学研究价值于一体的精品钱币，立即变成钱币爱好者和钱币藏家们非常亲睐和珍惜的对象，在这种热浪的推动下，其市场拍卖价值也随着这些人的关注而变得急速走高。

英文翻译：

In the Qing Dynasty, currency, banknotes and copper coins existed in parallel, until the Jiaqing reign began to issue new silver dollars, but during the Guangxu reign, more gold and silver coins were cast. And the influence of the Westernization Movement on the coinage industry can not be ignored. Zhang Zhidong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxu, took the lead in ordering a complete set of coinage machines from Britain in 1887 (the 13th year of Guangxu Emperor), and began the manufacturing of silver and copper coinage. The production level of Xuantong silver coin is very high, and its ornamental value is also very high. Mint General Factory also according to the "currency rules" provisions, in Xuantong two years to try to produce a round for the unit of the Qing silver coin. In 1911 AD (three years of Xuantong) re-model, trial production of Xuantong three years of Daqing silver coin, the main coin of the dragon pattern is very many, including long beard dragon, short beard dragon, big tail dragon, anti-dragon, Qu beard dragon and signature version of many different versions. Xuantong three years of Qing silver coins, new coins just successful casting, just at the Wuchang uprising, so most of the new silver coins were stillborn, leaving only a small number of samples.   Recently, Xuantong three years to collect a silver coin Qu Xilong version (as above). Although this coin is not big, but show a strong "personality" and "artistic value". Look carefully, one side of the coin was divided into two parts of the inner ring and outer ring, inner ring with traditional characters engraved with the four "qing silver" regular script word, outer ring is a combination of manchu and Chinese - with the manchu words above, below the seal of the qing dynasty emperor accurate calendar, the four small "xuantong three years", the Chinese text around the outside of the "qing silver" together, on the back of the piece must be dragon beard winding is wavy, hidden in the sea of clouds.   During the reign of Emperor Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, coinminters, through their skillful techniques and sophisticated craftsmanship, finally minted the remarkable Qing coins and introduced them into the market. Today, after several hundred years of historical changes, many ancient coins have lost their original circulation and payment functions, but they are hot and popular in the collection market due to the scarcity of existence. These collections of archaeological value, art collection value and scientific research value in one of the fine coins, immediately become coin lovers and coin collectors are very close to the object of the look and cherish, under the promotion of this heat wave, the market auction value also becomes rapidly with the attention of these people go high.