There are forty-eight liang of Yuanbao in the Ming Dynasty. The "Ming Yuanbao" was cast in the early years of Jiajing. This Ming Dynasty ingot is 48 liang of silver ingots in the year of Ding Chou. The two ends of the silver ingot are round and solitary and uplifted upward. It is as high as a ship. The whole silver ingot is in the shape of a horseshoe with slight rust on the outside. There are three lines of regular script inscriptions on its face: on both sides are also printed "Ding Chou year" and "forty-eight Liang", on the left is "made in the year of Ding Chou", on the right is "forty-eight Liang", and in the middle are four regular script large characters "Ming Dynasty ingot", The middle part of the word "Bao" is written in Yangwen from the second "Wang". This is the inherent characteristic of silver ingots in the early Ming Dynasty., According to the actual measurement, the shape of this silver ingot is relatively standard, the shape is unified, the surface is concave, the water ripple formed after casting cooling can be vaguely seen on the ingot surface, and the bottom seat is slightly convex and concave in the shape of honeycomb.
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