中华货币文化源远流长,独具特色。自秦始皇统一货币、专用半两秦钱始,外圆内方的钱制便成为定制,在中国流传了两千多年之久。晚清以后,西方资本主义势力侵入中国,浸淫和破坏了中国自给自足的传统社会经济基础,并由此从根本上触发了中国传统制钱制度的生存危机。面对日益恶化的制钱流通环境,清政府也曾试图挽救,却仍然无法阻止制钱制度退出历史舞台的趋势和脚步,最终为新生的铜元制度所替代。到底是什么原因导致了我国传统制钱制度最终溃败的结局,本文考察和分析清末机铸制钱的产生与消亡过程, Chinese currency culture has a long history and unique characteristics. Since Qin Shihuang unified currency, dedicated half of the two Qin money, the money inside the outer circle became customized, spread in China more than two thousand years. After the late Qing Dynasty, the forces of Western capitalism intruded into China, soaking and destroying the traditional social and economic foundation of China’s self-sufficiency and thereby fundamentally triggered the crisis of existence in China’s traditional system of making money. In the face of the deteriorating environment of money-making and circulation, the Qing government tried to rescue it, but still failed to stop the tendency and pace of the money-making system from exiting the stage of history and eventually replaced the new-born copper system. In the end is what led to the final defeat of the traditional system of making money in our country, this paper examines and analyzes the generation and demise of machine-made money in the late Qing Dynasty,