清朝灭亡之后，1912年4月袁世凯出任大总统。北洋政府鉴于当时铸币、纸币十分复杂，流通的中外货币在百种以上，规格不一，流通混乱，折算繁琐，民众积怨，同时也想借助货币改制以解决军费问题，便决定铸发国币。袁世凯为了提高自己的统治地位，把他的头像铸于币面，“袁大头”由此而来。

“袁大头”在货币收藏界被称为银元之宝，它是中国近千种近代银币中流传最广、影响最大的银元品种，也是近代中国币制变革中的一个重要角色。

民国三年袁大头

背嘉禾二本，左右交互，下系结带，中铸“壹圆”二字。这些年，在银元收藏界，有一个名字，始终不乏耳闻，那就是“袁大头”，特别是这几年，随着金银价格走强以及市场的火爆，许多老银元的市场价格都有了多倍的涨幅，其中部分版本特殊，品相良好，存世稀少的珍品，更是不可估量。

嘉禾”，美禾，茁壮之禾，硕大之禾，祥瑞之禾也。东汉许慎《说文》云：“禾，嘉谷也。以二月而种，八月始熟，得时之中，故谓之禾。”王充《论衡·讲瑞篇》云：“嘉禾生于禾中，与禾中异穗，谓之嘉禾。”古人多以“嘉禾”为祥瑞之物，与甘露醴泉并称。如班固《汉书·公孙弘传》云：“甘露降，风雨时，嘉禾兴。”也就是生长得特别茁壮的禾稻，古人视嘉禾图案为吉祥的象征。

在中国钱币上就有嘉禾图案，现在国徽上就有，最典型的嘉禾纹样就是“袁大头”上的背后的嘉禾图案。

银币边齿规整，压痕明显，表现压力十足。

银币压力：由于清朝自民国使用英国进口造币机器，压力高达五十吨，这个技术直到民国结束也未被超越，所以国内仿制银币多为图案模糊不清，内齿相连，并齿，所以很多专业的钱币收藏者，一看钱币说是压力不足，就变相的说是仿品，真品银币，图案清晰，无论是边齿，还是内次，都十分规整，且不会出现相连，并齿的情况，内齿长短一致，整齐划一，不会出现长短不一的情况，边齿也不会有斜齿，或者齿痕极浅的情况，因为仿币是用一种小型的设备，围着银币边缘，滚上一圈，我们称之为滚齿，很多阴阳齿等特殊齿轮是后滚出来的，在钱币边缘形成一圈滚痕，所以我们看钱币首要的就是看它的压力是否足够，线条是否清晰，没有瑕疵，多余的痕迹。

袁大头中的极品民国三年袁大头，这一年的袁大头发行量最少，因为他在当时是一个错版的存在，一般的袁大头都是七个字，多了一个‘造’字，在所有袁大头中只有民国三年的袁大头是没有造字的，民字是多一点的，这也是与其它钱币很大的一个区别，我们可以看到袁大头人像胸前与内齿接触的地方是少一个内齿的，这也是内行人鉴定钱币真假重要的一点，这枚钱币整圈就少这一个内齿，当时的目的就为了来防伪的，而后期仿制的钱币是没有注意到这个细节的.

钱币收藏历来就讲究：藏‘绝’三年袁大头是整个袁大头系列里的一‘绝’其收藏价值极高，而且钱币第二侧重点就是看品相，这枚银币，包浆自然，整体规整，字体清晰，图案精美，无任何磕缺，变形，品相完美，细看银币左右有着明显的银撮，一个集字一个十字交叉的银撮记号，这些银撮是当时流经钱庄所做的记号，属于开门银币的表现，此银币综合来看，属于馆藏级别的银币，极具收藏价值。

英文翻译：After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai became president in April 1912. In view of the complexity of coinage and paper money at that time, the circulation of more than 100 kinds of Chinese and foreign currencies, different specifications, chaotic circulation, complicated conversion, public resentment, and also wanted to solve the military expenditure problem with the help of currency reform, the Beiyang government decided to coin national coins. In order to improve his ruling position, Yuan Shikai cast his head on the currency surface, from which "Yuan Datou" came.

"Yuan Datou" is known as the treasure of silver dollar in the currency collection circle. It is the most widely spread and most influential silver dollar variety among nearly one thousand kinds of modern silver coins in China, and it is also an important role in the reform of the currency system in modern China.

The republic of China three years Yuan Datou

Back jiahe two, left and right interaction, under the tie belt, cast "one round" two words. Over the years, in the silver collection area, has a name, is not always hear, that is "big head" yuan, especially in recent years, as the gold and silver price strength and market, and many there were more than the market price of the old silver dollar rise, some of these special version, good appearance, only rare treasures, is immeasurable.

Jiahe ", the United States and wo, wo healthy, huge wo, auspicious wo also. Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in his Shuo Wen: "He, Jia Gu also. In February and planted, in August beginning to ripe, in the time, so that the grass." Wang Chong "on heng · lecui" cloud: "Jiahe was born in he, and he in the different ear, called jiahe." The ancients take "Jiahe" as a auspicious thing, and the Ganlu Li Spring. For example, ban Gu's "Biography of Gongsun Hong in the Book of The Han Dynasty" said, "When the manna falls, the wind and rain, jiahe xing." In other words, the rice grows particularly strong, and the ancients regarded the pattern of Jiahe as a symbol of auspiciousness.

There are jiahe patterns on Chinese coins, and now there are on the national emblem. The most typical Jiahe pattern is the jiahe pattern on the back of "Yuan Datou".

The silver side teeth are regular, the indentation is obvious, and the pressure is full.

Silver coin pressure: Since the qing dynasty republic of China, use the imported version machine, pressure up to 50 tons, the technology until the end of the republic of China, also not be transcended, so domestic imitation silver to design more blurred, internal tooth is linked together, and teeth, so a lot of professional coin collectors, a look at the coin, pressure is not enough, is a disguised form of replicas, genuine silver COINS, the pattern is clear, both side of tooth, Or within time, very neat, and there will not be connected, and teeth, the tooth length is consistent, uniform, there will be no length is differ, there will be no edge of helical, or teeth marks very shallow, because imitation coin is made of a small device, around silver edge, roll in a circle, we call the roll teeth, Yin and Yang are a lot of teeth after special gear is rolled out, A circle of rolling marks is formed on the edge of the coin, so the first thing we look at the coin is to see whether the pressure is enough, whether the lines are clear, without defects and redundant traces.

Big head, big head in need three years of the republic of China yuan yuan this bulk circulation of at least one year of yuan, because he was a wrong version of the existence of general yuan big head is seven words, more than a "made" word, in only three years of the republic of China of all bulk yuan yuan big head there is no word, word is a bit more, this is also with the rest of the money, a big difference between We can see that the front of yuan Datou's portrait is missing an internal tooth where it contacts with the internal teeth, which is also an important point for insiders to identify the authenticity of the coin. The whole circle of this coin is missing this internal tooth. At that time, the purpose is to prevent forgery, and the later imitation of the coin does not pay attention to this detail.

Coin collection has always been exquisite: Hid 'no' three years of big head big head series is the yuan yuan a 'no' in the very high collection value, and coin the second focus is see appearance, this coin, patina natural, whole is neat, clear font, beautifully designed, cutting without any deficiency, deformation, quality perfect, look around silver has obvious pinch of silver, and a set of word a silver cross pinch of mark, These silver handfuls are the marks made by flowing through the bank at that time, which belong to the performance of opening the silver coin. In a comprehensive view, this silver coin belongs to the collection level of silver coin and has great collection value.