由於幣制尚未建立，除四川改鑄大漢銀幣，福建改鑄中華元寶外，主要的造幣廠，大都仍沿用前清鋼模鑄造銀幣，以供流通需要。由於幣制混亂，臨時政府財政部長陳錦濤，於民國元年3月11日呈文大總統孫中山，鼓鑄10萬元紀念銀幣以為整頓。
圖案采用大總統孫中山肖像，以後的通用銀幣再改花紋式樣。孫中山令財政部行文，同意鼓鑄紀念幣，並命令其余的通用銀幣新花紋，“中間應繪五谷模型，取豐歲足民之義，垂勸農務本之規”，訓令財政部速制新模，分令各省造幣廠照式鼓鑄。不久，財政部就頒下新模給江南(南京)、湖北、廣東等造幣廠依式鑄造，這就是“中華民國孫中山像開國紀念幣”的由來。
The commemorative coin of the founding of the Republic of China was chosen by 17 provincial representatives in Nanjing as the interim president of the Republic of China after the 1911 Revolution on 29 December 1911. A commemorative coin coined by the drum at the founding of the Republic of China.
As the currency system has not yet been established, except for Sichuan and Fujian, the main mints still use the former Qing steel mould to cast silver coins for circulation. Due to the confusion of the currency system, Chen Jintao, Minister of Finance of the Interim Government, on March 11, the first year of the Republic of China, presented to Sun Yat-sen, President of Wen University, to coin 100,000 yuan of commemorative silver coins for rectification.
The design is based on the portrait of Sun Yat-sen, President of the People's Republic of China. Sun Yat-sen ordered the Ministry of Finance to make commemorative coins by drumming, and ordered the rest of the new patterns of common silver coins. "Five grain models should be drawn in the middle, taking the meaning of being rich and full of the people, and admonishing the rules of agriculture as the basis." He instructed the Ministry of Finance to make new models quickly and ordered the provincial mints to follow the drumming pattern. Soon after, the Ministry of Finance issued a new model for the mints of Jiangnan (Nanjing), Hubei and Guangdong, which is the origin of "Sun Yat-sen of the Republic of China like the founding commemorative coin".
