光绪二十八年(1902年),经山东巡抚袁世凯奏请,山东获准铸造铜元。获准之时,袁世凯已调任直隶总督兼北洋大臣,时任山东巡抚周馥主持铸造事宜。此时,周馥的儿子周学熙任北洋银元局总办,故山东铸造铜元的币模由北洋银元局提供,其版式模仿北洋铜元式样,仅是把“北洋”二字变更为“山东”而已(图1)。正如周馥在奏折中所称:“仿北洋模式,改刻山东字样。”铸造数月后, Twenty-eight years Guangxu (1902), by Yuan Shikai, governor of Shandong, Shandong allowed to cast bronze. When approved, Yuan Shikai has been transferred to the Governor of Zhili and Minister of the Northern Ocean, when governor of Shandong Zhou Fu presided over casting. At this point, Zhou Fu’s son Zhou Xuexi Ren Northern Bank of China chief office, so the mold for casting copper in Shandong provided by the Northern Silver Bureau, the pattern imitation of the Northern bronze style, just to “Northern” change “ ”Only (Figure 1). As Zhou Fu said in the memorial: “Imitation of the Northern model, change the words of Shandong. ” Cast a few months later,