Collection of Gods

Chapter 543: One or Two from Fengtian

"Little friend Tang, I bought this 1916 Yuan Shikai-like ten-yuan gold coin from the Hongxian era of the Chinese Empire at Guardian Auction House in 2008. At that time, the hammer price was 246 million. Now ten years later, according to the market valuation of this gold coin Is it worth it? Can you accept my offer of 400 million?”

"Thank you, Mr. Kong, for your love. I can accept this price."

"Since you accept it, then put this gold coin aside. Next is one or two red copper sample coins of the Qing Dynasty gold coins made in the last years of Guangxu Ding. There are only 5 of these gold coins in the world. I have 2 in my hand. You can I bought this piece at Poly Auction House in 2006. The hammer price at that time was 209 million. If you like it now, take it for 300 million.”

“The price is acceptable, thank you Mr. Kong.”

……

Kong Tingshan quoted five gold coins one after another.

In the past half month, Tang Yuan had people find out all the information on coins that had been hammered down by more than one million yuan by major auction houses in the past twenty years, and carefully looked through them all.

Regarding the price trend of the coin collection market, Tang Yuan still has a bottom line in his heart, so as long as the quotation given by Kong Tingshan is not too outrageous and is within a reasonable range, Tang Yuan will accept anyone who comes.

At this moment, Lin Xingwan, who was sitting next to Tang Yuan, was completely stunned. When she was looking at these gold coins, although she guessed that the value of these gold coins would be very high, she never expected the value of these gold coins. The value can be so ridiculously high.

A gold coin is worth 400 million!
It seems that since the beginning of Tang Yuan and Kong Tingshan's price negotiation, no gold coin has been priced below two million. When Tang Yuan faced these gold coins that were often quoted in the millions, he didn't even frown. Accept it directly.

"There are five gold coins in total, with a total value of 1350 million."

Tang Yuan looked at Kongting Mountain and said with a smile: "Mr. Kong, let's take a look at other treasures. I will settle the money together later."

"Since you want to see it, let's see the others."

After Kong Tingshan finished speaking, he took the tray and put the gold coins except the five gold coins selected by Tang Yuan into the safe again. Then he opened a safe again and took out many coins from it. The number was larger than the last time. More, nearly a hundred.

Last time it was gold coins, this time it was silver coins.

These silver coins are basically silver coins from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and many of them are sample coins. Because of their small quantity, exquisite casting technology, and profound historical significance, their value has greatly increased.

According to his previous habit, Tang Yuan still looked and picked.

Because the quantity was relatively large this time, it took Tang Yuan nearly fifty minutes to look through all the hundreds of silver coins, and finally selected the twelve silver coins that he liked more.

Then Tang Yuan and Kong Tingshan repeated the process just now. Kong Tingshan first took away three of the twelve silver coins that were not for sale, and then he quoted the remaining nine silver coins one after another.

In the 270st year of the Republic of China, the half-circle silver coin with the image of Sun Yat-sen was worth 1912 million; in 220, the "founding commemoration" silver coin on both sides of the Li Yuanhong statue was trial-minted, worth 210 million; in the third year of Xuantong, the Qing Dynasty silver coin with a long beard dragon was one yuan. Valued at 1926 million yuan; 190 Zhang Zuolin's commemorative coin of the Army and Navy Grand Marshal in the th year of the Republic of China, one yuan sample silver coin, valued at million yuan...

There are nine silver coins in total, with a total value of 1980 million.

At this point, Tang Yuan had won a total of 14 coins including gold coins, taking the lead in filling the first gap.

After Kong Tingshan put the remaining silver coins back into the safe, Tang Yuan's eyes showed a little expectancy and asked tentatively: "Mr. Kong, do you have any harder goods here?"

"how?"

"Now these high-quality coins are no longer enough to satisfy Tang Xiaoyou?"

Kong Tingshan heard this and joked with a smile.

Tang Yuan rubbed his hands and said sincerely: "Mr. Kong, I have heard for a long time that you are a master in the field of coin collection. It is rare for me to visit you once, and I really want to broaden my horizons." "Okay..."

"Since you said so, I'll bring it to you and take a look."

"If this place is compared to my private collection, then the coins I will show you next are all treasures."

Kong Tingshan turned around and walked towards the safe in the center of the wall of this room. When Tang Yuan came in, he discovered that there were six safes in this room, and the other five safes were all of the same style. There is something different about this safe.

Obviously, this safe has a higher security level than the other five safes.

Two minutes later, Kong Tingshan came back with the tray again. He saw ten coins spread flat on the tray. Each coin was covered with a protective cover made of special material, which looked extraordinary.

"garrulous……"

"It took me most of my life to collect these ten coins of this level. If ordinary people come to me, I won't show them easily."

After walking several times in a row, the consumption was still quite high for Kong Tingshan, an old man who was nearly eighty years old. He sat back on the sofa, pointed at the ten coins, and said to Tang Yuan.

In fact, just when Kong Tingshan put the tray back on the table, Tang Yuan's eyes fell on the ten coins, and it was difficult to look away.

"This is……"

"The legendary Fengtian Yiliang?!"

Tang Yuan carefully picked up a silver coin, with a hint of shock in his voice.

"Young Tang, do you know anything about Fengtian?"

When Kong Tingshan saw that Tang Yuan had revealed his origin, he couldn't help but smile even more.

"of course I know."

Tang Yuan stared closely at the silver coin in front of him: "Fengtian Yiliang is known as the first of the four heavenly kings of Chinese silver coins. Because it is extremely rare in existence, it was known as a legendary coin during the Republic of China. It can be said to be rare in the world. Unexpectedly Mr. Kong, you actually collected one."

"It's really not easy to collect this silver coin."

There was a flash of reminiscence in Kong Tingshan's eyes, and his voice was filled with emotion and nostalgia. Obviously, there should be some story behind his collection of this silver coin.

Tang Yuan said nothing more, because his attention was now focused on the legendary silver coin in front of him.

Fengtian Yiliang is just a common name for this silver coin. Its real full name is Guimao Guangxu Yuanbao Ku Pingyin Yiliang made in Fengtian Province. It was a product of the famous "two yuan dispute" in the history of modern Chinese currency.

In the 29th year of Guangxu's reign, due to the shortage of currency in circulation in Fengtian, the Fengtian authorities changed the name of the Fengtian Mint to the Fengtian Silver Dollar General Bureau. Following the emperor's order, silver and copper coins were minted, and a new set of disciplinary units was established. Yuan and jiao were no longer used. , are divided into discipline weight units, but Kupingliang, money, cents, and cents are the discipline weight units.

However, after the Fengtian Yiliang was issued, circulation soon became sluggish due to inconvenient conversions. There was also a debate within the imperial court over the issue of silver dollar units. In the end, the Qing government took into account habits and usage and promulgated the "Rules for the Establishment of National Currency", which officially Determine the national currency unit as "yuan".

At this point, the Fengtian Yiliang that had just been circulated became a top quality product in an instant.

(End of this chapter)