DangBaekJeon result, DangBaekJeon became bad money, and SangPyeongTongBo became good money. This is related to Gresham's law, which is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". The casting of DangBaekJeon was stopped in April 1867. The next year, its distribution was stopped because of an appeal from Choe Ik-hyeon(Hangul: 최익현, Hanja: 崔益鉉), a janglyeong(Hangul:장령, Hanja: 掌令) in Joseon Dynasty. He insisted that DangBaekJeon affected adversely to all classes of the society in the past two years. After its distribution had stopped, DangBaekJeon was exchanged with SangPyeongTongBo or China money(Hangul: 청전, Hanja: 掌令) and was used in iron. Dangbaekjeon
Gresham's law been noted much earlier, in the 14th century, by Nicole Oresme. In the year that Gresham was born, 1519, it was described by Nicolaus Copernicus in a treatise called "Monetae cudendae ratio": "bad (debased) coinage drives good (un-debased) coinage out of circulation." Copernicus was aware of the practice of exchanging bad coins for good ones and melting down the latter or sending them abroad, and he seems to have drawn up some notes on this subject while he was at Olsztyn in 1519. He made them the basis of a report which he presented to the Prussian Diet held in