golden escape

Since meeting Mr. Chu, Fang You has been receiving new knowledge of antiques every day. Mr. Chu's personal teaching, as well as his self-study in books, have made him more and more knowledgeable about antiques.

Fang You also cherishes this hard-won opportunity. Even when he went as far away as Pingzhou last time, he still carried a few books given to him by Mr. Chu. These books were not given by Mr. Chu casually, but were systematically Verification, books that can only be studied after he has learned to a certain stage.

During the Warring States Period, different countries used different coins, such as the knife coins, shovel coins, etc. unearthed in the tombs of the Warring States Period. After the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries, they unified the currencies, using gold as the currency, and round coins. Copper coins with square holes are the lower coins. So far, copper coins have been used by various dynasties in China for more than two thousand years.

Copper coins are round on the outside and square on the inside, which corresponds to the legend that the ancient people believed that the sky was round and the place was round, so the copper coins came from this, and they were also called Brother Kong Fang by people.

Fang You gradually kept up with Ye Yuqing, but looked at the copper coins over and over again. If such a powerful aura can be gushed out, then the age of the copper coins is definitely not trivial.

Some of the copper coins looked brand new, some were engraved with Qianlong Tongbao, and some were engraved with Kangxi Tongbao. Even if Fang You didn't need to look at it, he knew that these copper coins were newly mined, and they were not worth three yuan.

Suddenly, Fang You's eyes fell on one of the copper coins. This copper coin was hidden on the back of the bow under the purse, and it looked faintly visible, as if the person who made the purse was afraid that others would see it.

However, this looming appearance, paired with the purse pendant, makes people feel a little different. Fang You immediately picked up the pendant, and Brother Kong Fang with some copper embroidery on it came into view, and he couldn't help shaking his head and smiling , no wonder it will be hidden behind the bow. As for the appearance of this copper coin, if others see it, I am afraid that this purse will not be sold.

Fang You picked up the bow at the bottom of the purse and looked carefully. There was copper rust, which proved the age of the copper coin. He was very clear about this. Antiques should not be judged by their appearance. It is dilapidated.

Just like the fragments of the Ru kiln he found in Liuzhou Iron Rooster Li Biao's antique shop, they were forcibly pieced together on the flowerpot, which looked very ugly, but this piece of fragments that others didn't care about was worth a lot. 20, and Fang You bought it for only [-], but this big pot has been left in the antique shop for a long time and no one cares about it, which shows how important selling is to ordinary antique players.

Fang You smiled helplessly. Even if he was himself, he couldn’t get rid of this habit. When he saw this copper coin, he really had a horrible reaction. If he hadn’t used escapism to discover the difference in this purse, he might also have a crush on this copper coin. At a glance, there is no other, but the perfect psychology in the heart is at work.

Taking a closer look, this copper coin is not so dilapidated, it is still very complete as a whole, but there is some copper rust on it. When he collected copper coins in Liuzhou dry express, there were countless copper coins with missing arms and broken legs.

It's just that he only picked some complete copper coins at that time, and paid a price of hundreds of oceans for them. Looking back now, those Qianlong Tongbao were only a few yuan each.

The front was tightly attached to the bow, and what he saw now was the back without any writing. Immediately, Fang You held the bow in front of his eyes, and looked at the writing on the copper coin through the gap.

The rest of the copper coins filled with ornaments are nothing more than decorations cast by modern technology. Only this copper coin has the appearance of an old object.

He activated the escape technique, glanced at the copper coin for a few moments, and a huge aura appeared in his body as expected, which proved that this copper coin was the source of the aura.

To prove this point, Fang You looked carefully at the copper coin through the gap, and the first thing he saw was a character Tong. Compared with some copper coins he had seen, the characters on this copper coin were much clearer and could be seen at a glance. Find out what word it is.

The strokes of this Tong character seem to be long horizontally and short vertically. The overall shape is rectangular, but it is a common official script in ancient times, which is one of the most solemn fonts in ancient times.

The copper coins minted from the Tang Dynasty are basically named after Tongbao, and the emperor's year name during the casting period is added to the front.

Aiming upwards, Fang You saw a looming large character. He felt a little at a loss. Since learning antiques, he is very familiar with the reign names of ancient emperors, but he has never heard of emperors beginning with big. Year number.

Maybe it was cast by some unknown dynasty, Fang You thought in his heart, with the aura, it can already prove that it is an old object, as for the real age, we have to wait until we read the four-character official script of the copper coin I can't think of it anymore, I can only use the escape technique to see the color of the aura, or look for Elder Chu.

"Little Youzi, what are you thinking about behind the scenes? You're so engrossed." Seeing Fang You dawdling, Ye Yuqing looked behind in displeasure, and saw that the boy was holding the purse she had given him, Watching seriously, this made her inner displeasure completely disappear, and asked with a smile on her face.

Fang You smiled lightly, and when he was about to speak, his eyes froze on the text below the big characters. He just felt puzzled when he saw the big characters, but the unsurprising official script characters below it made him whole The person was a little dumbfounded, with an incredible look on his face.

He originally thought that this might be an ordinary old object, but it was just a long time ago, but this word made him fall into shock. This copper coin is not only unusual, it can be said that it is precious and invaluable .

This character is a Qi character in traditional official script, and the words on the entire copper coin are connected together, which is Da Qi Tong Bao. It is this Qi character that makes Fang You's heart surge continuously.

In the books related to copper coins given by Mr. Chu, in addition to the history of the development of coins in various generations, the focus is on the fifty treasures of ancient Chinese coins.

These fifty ancient coins can be said to be extremely rare and precious, and some of them can't even find a complete coin in the whole country, so they can only comfort themselves with the incomplete ones.

The Daqi Tongbao is even more rare among the fifty treasures. There are only two copper coins in the whole country, and these two copper coins are incomplete. A corner is missing on the upper right of one coin. It is missing corner Daqi, and the other one was discovered by ancient spring expert Dai Baoting and another person in a village where children kicked the shuttlecock. The meaning of ancient spring in ancient spring experts is ancient money, because the ancient pronunciation of money is connected with spring, and because of currency It circulates endlessly like spring water, so modern ancient money scholars are also called ancient spring experts by others.

Although the big Qi Tongbao discovered by the two of them is not missing corners, but because it was used by children to make shuttlecocks, four small holes were drilled on it, which is called the four-eyed Daqi.

Later, this four-eyed Daqi was collected by a famous collector with a lot of money, hidden in a secret room, and never shown to others, which shows the preciousness of Daqi Tongbao.

"Little Youzi, Little Youzi..." Ye Yuqing softly called Fang You a few times, but found that Fang You seemed to have passed away, staring blankly at the purse, her heart was filled with doubts, and she slowly turned to Fang You. walked over.

Seeing this, Xiao Yiyi also had an opinion. She pouted and ran to Fang You's side, tugged at his clothes, and said dissatisfiedly, "Uncle villain, wake up, you can fall asleep no matter how you walk."

Only then did Fang You wake up from the shock, looking at the copper coin, he was a little excited, and he was a little grateful in his heart.

"Xiao Yiyi, I'm not asleep. Didn't you see that my eyes are open?" Fang You looked at Xiao Yiyi's dissatisfied expression, smiled and pinched her face.

"Not asleep, so why ignore us." Xiao Yiyi didn't intend to let Fang You go so easily.

Fang You smiled lightly, shook his purse, "Because I found a good thing."

"I'm not going to be fooled by you." Xiao Yiyi curled her lips and turned her face away.

Ye Yuqing was a little worried, and asked softly, "Little Wanderer, what happened just now, why did you get so fascinated by a purse?"

"Hehe, Yuqing, it's not the purse that fascinates me, but the accessories on this purse. Come on, look at this copper coin, what is written on it." Fang You smiled, pointing to the copper coin on the bow on the purse Said.

"Daqi Tongbao, I remember that the currency of Qi State seems to be Dao coins. Aren't copper coins issued after the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries? Could it be a fake?" Ye Yuqing saw this without any effort. The above font, and then said with a frown.

Fang You smiled lightly and shook his head, "Yuqing, it seems that you don't know much about copper coins. What appears on the copper coins can only be the year name, not the name of the country."

"Daqi is the year name of a country. This country was established at the end of Tang Dynasty and the beginning of Song Dynasty. Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are very familiar to Chinese people, but some people don't know it. Chaos, warlords separated each other, and countries were established everywhere, which was called the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by later generations."

"Daqi Tongbao was cast by Li Sheng, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because Li Sheng's adoptive father, Xu Wen, was the commander of King Wu's account at the end of Tang Dynasty, and launched a coup to assist the second son of King Wu, Yang Long, to ascend the throne of King Wu. He was named King of Qi, so after Li Sheng abolished Yang Pu, the contemporary emperor of Southern Wu, and gained the power of Southern Wu, he changed the name of the country to Southern Tang, and the name of the country was Daqi."

Fang You smiled, "This is the origin of the Daqi copper coin." If it hadn't just happened to pass the fifty treasures of ancient Chinese coins, I am afraid that even if the Daqi Tongbao was placed directly in front of him, he would just ignore it. Yes, treating it as an ordinary copper coin is exactly what Fang You felt lucky just now.

"Little Youzi, is this thing very precious?" Ye Yuqing asked softly, since Fang You just stood still because of this copper coin, she knew that this copper coin was no different from ordinary copper coins.

(To be continued)