自新中国成立以来，中国的国民经济水平和文化软实力不断提高，越来越多的人开始关注极具文化传承和高回报率的艺术品收藏投资。在2005以来，诸多珍贵古玩艺术品价格节节高升，尤以中国高古瓷器和清代、民国古钱币最为突出。2017年，中国将文化艺术品发展重要问题放在了全国民众的面前，激起了新一轮艺术品投资热，艺术品交易市场不断升温，各类珍稀而极具历史文化考究价值的藏品市值飞涨，民国三年袁大头便是钱币市场上一个典型的代表。

民国三年(即1914年)国民政府为了统一币制，解决军费开支，也为了提高袁世凯的个人政治地位而发布了《国币条例》，规定了民国三年袁大头一元银币为本位币，其标准重量为七钱二分，成色银九铜一，统一由天津造币厂铸造(后在南京、广东、误差、甘肃造币厂陆续铸造)，并统一流通，因这些银币皆铸有袁世凯的侧身图像而得名。钱币虽小，却是一个时代社会经济、政治、文化演变的重要见证，具有极高的文物价值和历史纪念意义。并且，袁世凯统治时期很短，袁大头虽发行量较大，却也因为时间和地域限制无法大面积流通，后由相关部门收回重铸，以及岁月的演进等因素，导致珍品袁大头的数量大大减少。

近日有幸徵集到了一枚保存完好的中华民国三年袁大头。如上图所示，正面为袁世凯侧面像，上缘书“中华民国三年”，“民”字中有一“点”，意"民主、共和、宪政及君主立宪"之思想希冀；钱背中央汉字“壹圆”字样，周围环两条嘉禾纹饰，左右交互，下系结带。

该枚银币虽已有“百年高龄”，但品相甚佳，钱币自然包浆，边缘线条粗细均匀，间距也疏密一致，人物、字迹等清晰有度，生动自然，十分精美，有很高的艺术观赏价值和收藏投资价值。

袁大头代表了中国近代的货币文化，历史纪念意义重大。且银属于贵金属，收藏风险小，虽然近五年来袁大头市值涨跌不停，但依然维持在一个相对稳定的价位。业内人士认为，随着中国对传统文化和艺术品金融发展的重视不断加强，袁大头的收藏在未来依然有很大的价值空间。如此枚保存完好的袁大头实在不多见，值得珍藏！

英文翻译：

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's national economic level and cultural soft power continue to improve, and more and more people begin to pay attention to the art collection investment with great cultural inheritance and high rate of return. Since 2005, the price of a lot of precious antique works of art rises day by day, especially with China ancient porcelain and Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China ancient coins are the most prominent. In 2017, China put the important issue of cultural and art development in front of the national public, which aroused a new round of art investment heat, the art trading market is heating up, and the market value of all kinds of rare and highly valuable historical and cultural collections is soaring. Yuan Datou is a typical representative of the coin market in the three years of the Republic of China.   In the third year of the Republic of China (1914), the national government issued the "National Currency Regulations" in order to unify the currency system, solve the military expenditure, and also to improve Yuan Shikai's personal political status. It stipulated that Yuan Datou's one-yuan silver coin in the three years of the Republic of China was the standard currency, and its standard weight was seven cents, nine copper silver and one copper. Unified by the Tianjin Mint casting (later in Nanjing, Guangdong, Shiyi, Gansu Mint casting), and unified circulation, because these silver coins are cast with Yuan Shikai's side image, so named. Although the coin is small, it is an important witness of the social economy, politics and cultural evolution of an era, and it has a very high cultural relic value and historical commemorative significance. In addition, Yuan Shikai's reign period was very short. Although Yuan Datou had a large circulation, it could not be circulated in a large area due to time and geographical restrictions. Later, it was recovered by relevant departments and recast, as well as the evolution of time and other factors, leading to a great reduction in the number of treasures of Yuan Datou.       Recently had the honor to collect a well-preserved Republic of China three years yuan big head. As shown in the figure above, the front side is the profile of Yuan Shikai. The upper margin of the book reads "Three Years of the Republic of China". There is a "dot" in the word "people", meaning the ideological hope of "democracy, republic, constitutional government and constitutional monarchy". The central Chinese character "one circle" on the back of the money, surrounded by two Jiahe decoration, left and right interaction, under the knot belt.   Although the silver coin has been "a hundred years old", but the appearance is very good, the natural coating of the coin, the thickness of the edge line is uniform, the spacing is also consistent, the characters and handwriting are clear, vivid and natural, very exquisite, and has a high artistic appreciation value and collection investment value.       Yuan Datou represents the monetary culture of modern China, and the historical commemoration is of great significance. And silver belongs to precious metal, collect risk is small, although nearly 5 years yuan big head market value rises and falls ceaseless, but still maintain in a relatively stable price. Industry insiders believe that with China's increasing emphasis on the financial development of traditional culture and artwork, Yuan Datou's collection will still have a lot of value space in the future. Such a well-preserved yuan big head is really rare, worthy of collection!