清末苏州铜元局马洪德，陈佐鄂清代末年，处于内外交困的清政府，为了应付铜价飞涨、民间熔毁制钱为铜，出现钱荒的局面，于光绪二十六年（１９００年）批准在广东创铸铜元。次年十二月二十四日（旧历，下同）清政府见铜元民间称便、获利甚厚，即谕令沿江沿海各省督抚筹款仿办，搭铸通行，并要求福建、广东、江苏等省“将所铸铜元赶紧各解数十万元投交户部”①。于是，“裕苏官银钱局”以及后来的苏州铜元局应运而生。苏州铜元局概况在《大清德宗景（光绪）皇帝实录》（光绪二十九年二月）卷５１２第７６８页载：“辛亥……署两江总督张之洞等奏，江苏钱价日贵，民用日艰，拟设官银钱局，行用官钱票，并添机增铸铜元，报可。”当月，在陆元鼎等人的直接主持下，选定苏州盘门内梅家桥，建立裕苏官银钱局，不久又改为铜元局（铜币旧厂），后铜元局停铸后改为巡警总局②。自光绪二十九年（１９０３年）二月起苏州建厂（旧厂）试铸铜元，于光绪三十年（１９０４年）二月初二日开铸当十铜元；同年十月，又在苏州胥门外枣市桥原“华利砖瓦公司”的基础上，添购民地建造新厂，并自光绪三十一年五月开铸，至十月二十五日停铸（旧厂至光绪三十二年五月十二日停铸，新厂后来变成了“苏州电气公司”）。苏州铜元局 At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the bronze bureau of China, Ma Hongde and Chen Zuo’e, the government of Qing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, confronted with difficulties in coping with the soaring price of copper and civil meltdown and making money for copper, was approved by Guangdong Chuangxin (1900) for twenty-six years (1900) Copper coins. On December 24 of the following year (the Lunar New Year and the same below), the Qing government found that the people of the Qing Dynasty called the copper monarchy very profitable. That is, they ordered the governors of the coastal provinces along the river to make imitations and make castings, Jiangsu and other provinces “will cast bronze quickly resolved each of hundreds of thousands of dollars to vote in the Ministry of households” ①. As a result, “Yu Su official silver” and later the Suzhou Copper Bureau came into being. Suzhou Copper Authority Overview In the “Qing Dynasty Zong King (Guangxu) Emperor Record” (Guangxu twenty-nine February) Volume 512, p. 768 contains: “Xinhai ... Governor Zhang Erdong Jiang et al, Jiangsu Daily Premium , The civil hardships, proposed to be the official banking bureau, official money tickets, and add machines to add copper, reported that. ”In the same month, Lu Yuanding and others directly under the auspices of the Suzhou door selection Meijiaqiao established Yu Su official silver, and soon changed to the copper bureau (copper old factory), after the copper bureau stopped casting changed to the Patrol Administration ②. Since the Guangxu twenty-nine years (1903) in February from the Suzhou plant (the old factory) try to cast bronze, in the thirty years Guangxu (1904) on the second day of February cast when the ten copper; in October the same year, in Suzhou Based on the original “Beverly Brick Company” in Qiaodao Juzao Shiqiao, the Company purchased a new plant from the people’s land and started casting from May 31 of Guangxu to stop casting on October 25 Guangxu thirty-two years on May 12 stop casting, the new plant later became “Suzhou Electric Company”). Suzhou copper bureau