简城村Jiancheng Cun (Jiancheng Village)

不明，这块金币是张缪纯同志在自己院内挖红薯窖时发现的。金币距地面约2米。《左传》记载：“（鲁）昭公十一年（公元前531年），楚子城陈、蔡、不羹。使弃疾为陈、蔡公”。《河南通志·卷五十二》：“定陵城在舞阳县城北，《左传》楚筑不羹即此”。这些文献记载说明，此地就是春秋时期楚国的北方军事重镇东不羹城旧址。解放后，地下出土文物十分丰富，其中有陶涵管、金块、金粒、铜壶、朱砂、楚式铜剑、铸剑范、楚贝、半瓦当、石斧等重要遗物。这次“郢爰”的出土，更说明了这是楚筑东不羹城的旧址。因此，这块“郢爰”的铸造时间，下限可能在公元前530年春秋中晚期。

This gold piece was discovered by Comrade Zhang Miaochun while digging a sweet-potato cellar in his own courtyard. The gold piece was found about 2 meters below the surface. The Zuo Zhuan records: "In the eleventh year of Duke Zhao of Lu (531 BCE), the Viscount of Chu built walled cities at Chen, Cai, and Bugeng, appointing Qiji as governor of Chen and Cai." The Henan Tongzhi (Gazetteer of Henan), juan 52, states: "The city of Dingling is north of the Wuyang County seat; the Zuo Zhuan's reference to Chu building Bugeng refers to this place." These textual records indicate that this location is the former site of Dongbugeng, the northern military stronghold of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period. After Liberation (1949), abundant artifacts were unearthed underground here, including pottery drainage pipes, gold lumps, gold grains, bronze hu vessels, cinnabar, Chu-style bronze swords, sword-casting molds, Chu cowrie shells, half-round roof-tile ends (ban wadang), and stone axes, among other important finds. The discovery of this "Ying Yuan" further confirms that this is the former site of Dongbugeng built by Chu. Therefore, the casting date of this "Ying Yuan" piece likely has a lower bound around 530 BCE, in the mid-to-late Spring and Autumn period.