wrong currency

Chapter 20 Mysterious Man

On the afternoon of the weekend, Ou Yiran entered Yaliang's shop according to the appointed time.

At that time, there was a customer talking about business inside, seeing Ou Yiran coming in, he generously asked him to sit there for a while.

After a while, the customer bought a few zodiac commemorative coins and left.Ou Yiran took out a few ancient coins he had brought for Yaliang to look at.

The first one is "Chongning Tongbao" Dangshi, which is exquisite in appearance. The surprising aspect is that there is a small hole of 1.5 mm next to the edge of the money just above the word "Chong", and there is a distinct inward rotation in the outline of the edge of the money on the back.This coin was exchanged by Ou Yiran for a small picture book "Railway Guerrilla" when he was a child.

The other is "Xuanhe Tongbao" in regular script folded in two, with no outline on the back, just like a flat copper plate.

The third is the Baochuan Bureau "Qianlong Tongbao" large-character and small flat money, with steep and straight mouths, as if carved on a copper plate.

Several ancient coins are all black and bright, which is what the industry calls black lacquer ancient.

There is a famous saying in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Exquisite Ancient City" that there is a famous saying in the big gold tooth that black rust is all precious metals.The oxide of silver in air is black.Copper oxide is patina.

Black rust, bright yellow edges, dull voice, slightly heavy.Ya Liang looked at each of them one by one, and said that he didn't understand why, and still needed to consult an expert.

Ou Yiran knew that there were crouching tigers hidden in the coin market, and there was an old gentleman among them who was one of the founders of the domestic ancient coin collection association.

He has visited that old gentleman's shop many times. In the shop of fifty or sixty square meters, the collection of ancient coins is dazzling, including gold, silver, jade, bone, copper, iron and lead, and all kinds of materials.

Ou Yiran once went to the Deshengmen Ancient Coins Museum. As far as the richness of the collection is concerned, the museum does not have the complete collection of the old man.

However, experts and scholars who belong to this type usually have a common problem. They are not close friends, so they are not easily appraised.

If a stranger goes to ask him to look at the coins, he will shake his head and roll his eyes, and he will definitely say that they are not of much value, but if you buy his ancient coins, he will say that they are very valuable.

It's really expensive. It's sold for three hundred elsewhere, but he can sell it for five hundred. It's no nonsense. Do you want to buy it or not.

Once on a weekend afternoon, Ou Yiran saw that there was only the old gentleman in the store, so he smiled and said, "Oh, the door is finally open today."

At that time, the old man was burning two furnaces of agarwood, sitting in front of a huge table and looking at a picture of jade wall on his mobile phone attentively. just came back."

Ou Yiran said: "Did you go on a trip, or did you go to a seminar?"

The old man smiled: "Take care of both."

"Then you have to open the door too. Can't your children or wife come and take care of you for a few days?"

The old gentleman probably needed someone to chat with, so he invited Ou Yiran to sit down for the first time.Sighed: "My wife doesn't understand anything. As for my daughter, she is a civil servant. If you give her money, you can give her any amount of money. If you want her to come here to help take care of it, there are no doors. Opening and closing is a pile of broken things." What's so good about rotten copper and iron?"

"Oh, then you should cultivate your grandson's interest, otherwise who will take over from you in the future?"

"I'm dissatisfied with you. My grandson followed his mother. He came here twice when he was in his teens. He has no interest."

"Oh, then you should worry."

"It's useless to worry, just go out when you can't do it."

"It's a pity, this is your life's hard work."

"Is there any way?"

"But these coins are priceless, who can afford them?"

"Naturally, someone will take over, and the big deal is to make less money."

"Oh, that's right." Taking advantage of the time when the old man was answering the phone, Ou Yiran got up to appreciate the collection in the store, and when he saw a "Daguan Tongbao" that was as black as ink, he remembered the collection in his hand.

At this moment, the old man had hung up the phone, and Ou Yiran wanted to throw a brick to attract others, and asked, "Is this Daguan [-]% off silver?"

The old man glanced at the coin, and answered irrelevantly, "That is a handed down coin. All kinds of rust colors can be imitated, but the handed down coin cannot be imitated."

Ou Yiran didn't hear the answer he wanted, rolled his eyes, and made another plan: "Why is there no price on this coin?"

The old gentleman said concisely: "Eight hundred yuan."

Ou Yiran was overjoyed, so he continued to reveal his background: "The character 'Tong' is obviously smaller than other characters, and it is still in italics."

The old man coughed dryly, then changed his words and said, "Oh, how could it cost more than a thousand!"

Ou Yiran smiled secretly, and thought: So you also have times when you don't know what to do?If it's made of silver, ten or more than a thousand can't stop it.

When he was considering whether to take it or not, a young young man came in with a smile on his face, holding a brocade box in his hand, put it on the table and asked the old man to give him palm.

When it was opened, it was a rusty bronze mirror with animal buttons.

It can be seen that they are very familiar and have a harmonious relationship.

But when Ou Yiran saw the bronze mirror at first glance, the traces of old work were obvious.

When he wanted to hear the old man's insights, he found that the old man's eyes turned to his face, and he gave the young man an irrelevant answer, but handed his mobile phone to the young man, and let him see the picture of the jade wall inside.

After seeing it, the younger generation asked humbly if the carving was an eagle.

The old man said it was Costin.

Ou Yiran saw that the old man was unwilling to show his true talents in front of outsiders, so he left.

Since then, handing down ancient times has become his mantra.

That was the time Ou Yiran had the most conversations with the old gentleman.

It was also after that time that he realized that the old man had no successors, and once thought of taking over the whole thing in his heart, but he was powerless.

As for wanting to ask the old man to look at the ancient coins in his hand, he is not sure about it.

That night, when Yaliang invited Ou Yiran back, the latter showed him the Weibo information on his phone and discussed it.

Ya Liang said: "This wrong coin has only been found so far, and the price is not high."

Ou Yiran told him his thoughts and asked him for advice: "I want to double the price when the other party contacts me next time?"

"To be honest, the price of 6 million yuan, let alone the domestic market, is rarely such a high transaction price in the international market."

"Oh, so you are familiar with the market?"

Yaliang and Ou Yiran clinked a glass, drank it all, and said: "I am in this industry, so I must be familiar with the market. Although this is the first time I have seen the wrong currency, the transaction price of the wrong version of the currency in the industry fluctuates from time to time. burst out.

Not long ago, colleagues in Shanghai sold a 600,000-yuan banknote with a large offset watermark at a price of [-]. "As he spoke, he generously opened the wrong coin from the phone's picture library, and let Ou Yiran appreciate it.

"Oh, it really is the big offset of the watermark. How many of this wrong coin have you found?"

"Two or three."

"This coin is a bit different, it will definitely affect the price."

"There are more than two coins with the same error. Naturally, the quality is high and the price is high. This is the first time you have discovered this wrong coin. It is an orphan. And the error is strange, which can give people unlimited imagination. Although the quality is not too good Okay, but since someone took the initiative to contact you, and the bid is so high, you can offer him a higher price."

"Oh, that's it." Ou Yiran was delighted secretly.Just thinking about what price to quote to the other party.Take advantage of the time to go to the bathroom.Ou Yiran logged into his phone's Weibo, and saw that the other party had left a message: Don't forget to contact me when you want to make a move.

So, he quoted a price of 600 million according to the plan, only paused for less than 1 minutes, and the other party replied, still so straightforward: no problem, set a time and place.

Ou Yiran couldn't help being stunned, while thinking about how to reply, Yaliang came back from the bathroom.So he asked Ji and him: "Look, the other party accepted the asking price of 6 million and asked me to set the time and place."

Ya Liang frowned after reading it: "If you don't even pay back the price, who is so rich?"

Ou Yiran didn't know why, but based on his intuition, he tentatively said, "Could there be room for the price?"

Ya Liang nodded, and said with a wry smile: "Theoretically, we can continue to increase the price. But in this way, it exceeds my bottom line."

"Oh, could it be that you are also interested in this?" Ou Yiran asked in surprise.

"He is a fellow of mine and a colleague. He is quite well-known in the Guangzhou collection circle. After you left that day, I sent him this picture.

After he saw it, he told me to find a way to buy it.To tell you the truth, the bottom line he gave me was 5 million.

After listening to your thoughts just now, I pre-increased the position by 1 million on my own initiative, and I guess he can accept it.

Hey, who would have thought that the buyer on the Internet would obviously have the momentum to beat me.It seems that I can only stay away. "

Ou Yiran's heart swayed when he heard it, he was both happy and worried.The joy is that this wrong coin is so popular, and the worry is that it makes it difficult for friends who have not met for a long time.

However, he is a person who never lacks determination, and has a keen sense of smell that is different from ordinary people.

Since someone bids a high price, and there is a great momentum to get it quickly, you might as well continue to get to the bottom and see what the highest price the other party can offer?
What is the logic behind the high price? He expressed his thoughts to Yaquan again.

Ya Liang agreed with his thoughts, and also clarified his position: "I have the same understanding as you, and I respect your choice."

Ou Yiran saw that the elegance quickly got out of the psychological shackles, nodded secretly, suddenly thought, and said with a smile: "If this is the case, why not choose an auction and let the people you like bid for it."

Yaliang once again agreed with his thoughts, and said with a smile, "Very good, not only can I sell it for a good price, but I can also explain to that Tibetan friend."

So Ou Yiran replied to the online buyers as planned: "I think you can guess that you are not the only buyer of this wrong coin.

Based on this, I will entrust the auction company to resolve this matter, and I will tell you the relevant information as soon as possible.

The other party was obviously waiting for his message, and immediately replied: "Okay."Remember to tell me as soon as possible.

The next morning, Yun Lei happily said that she would call her father over for dinner at noon.Ou Yiran knew that she wanted to share the joy, so he said that he might as well call Lu Ting and have a drink together.Lu Ting is Yun Lei's brother-in-law, an engineering technician.

The father-in-law lived nearby and came quickly. When Lu Ting came in, they had already exchanged ideas about the wrong coin. Lu Ting's joining made the discussion gradually heated up.

Interestingly, when my father-in-law heard that the wrong coin was so popular, he thought that he also had a 90-version two-yuan banknote at home. Seeing that the meal was still early, he rushed back to find his banknote.

When he handed the banknote to Ou Yiran with obvious expectation, he must be thinking in his heart, if mine is also the wrong banknote, then he will be prosperous.

Ou Yiran picked up the magnifying glass on the coffee table and looked carefully at the light.As expected, there was nothing wrong with this note, like those he had seen in the coin market.

He told his father-in-law about the result.

The face that was originally full of hope froze instantly.

Luting picked up the banknotes and looked at them with a magnifying glass, but the result was the same.He laughed and said, "If it wasn't for the rarity of this wrong coin, no one would continuously quote such a high price.

They are all big collectors in the industry, so they naturally know the value of it. "

Ou Yiran continued: "I checked the world's largest auction company's auction records for wrong coins on the Internet. One of the auctions sold for tens of millions was 1160 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other was 2980 million Hong Kong dollars."

"This coin is outrageously wrong, it seems to be entrusted with some unspeakable moral?"

It has to be said that Lu Ting's perspective on problems is quite unique. He can go from an ordinary wrong coin to a height that ordinary people can't reach.

And his analysis can't help but make Ou Yiran's eyes shine. Since ordinary people have this consideration, and there are many experts in the collection circle, there must be some people who hold such thoughts.

Could it be that the high prices quoted on the Internet are based on this logic?

If this is the case, it means that this wrong coin is no longer simply commercial in nature.

Following this line of thought, coupled with the previous discussion with Ya Liang, Ou Yiran still decided to hand over the wrong coin to the auction company for auction.

In this way, the choice of what kind of auction company has become a top priority. Whether to entrust a world-class company or to find a domestic counterpart, these need to be carefully considered.

(End of this chapter)