Baolu Tianxing

"Hey, don't bring such a thing, you are blatantly stealing money!" Da Ya had just shown this big coin to Xu Qian, and Wu Chen snatched it before he could take a closer look. dissatisfied.

Wu Chen didn't have time to argue with him, so he took a look at the coin in his hand, and sure enough, he saw the word "Heavenly Kingdom" on the obverse of the yellow Chengcheng. He couldn't help but get excited, and hurriedly turned it over, and saw that the reverse was cast with a square cross. The two big characters "Sacred Treasure" can't help but be disappointed.

"What? Fake?" Da Ya saw Wu Chen's expression changed, and his heart sank. Xu Jing said that she was looking for an old coin, and hung it on a red string as an anklet. It just so happened that today was her birthday, so it was a fitting occasion. He found it for Xu Jing in a pile of ancient coins, so he was naturally more nervous than the owner.

"You scared me to death! I thought you really had such good luck!" Wu Chen said angrily. Compared with Bao, it’s far behind, hey, did I say you don’t know how to read? You can read the holy characters into normal characters, I really admire you!”

"Hehe, I'm used to it. Aren't these ancient coins all so-and-so Tongbao? What's the matter with this holy treasure? It's worth more than Tongbao, right? Look at the name, Shengbao, Shengbao, it's amazing when you hear it, tsk tsk!" Da Ya didn't think so. Said shamefully.

"That's right, I really like this, Holy Treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven, the name sounds good!" Xu Jing also smiled cheerfully, she really likes it, and besides, Da Ya helped her check it anyway, it must be Leave him a step down is not.

Wu Chen couldn't say anything, he was also a little bit disappointed when he heard about the Heavenly Kingdom Tongbao. After all, it's not bad to find such a intact Heavenly Kingdom's Holy Treasure!

But when Da Ya said that it was going to be used as an anklet for Xu Qian, Wu Chen was completely speechless. What is reckless, these two things are it!

There is such a tradition among the folks that ancient coins are believed to ward off evil spirits, and the relatively intact coins dug up by the second aunt's house are all used as "superstitious" purposes.But those are old and relatively ordinary ancient coins, there are such good things useful there!

According to the collection level of coins, this "Tianguo Tongbao" is considered a fine product. Such a intact coin will wear out after half a year when it is hung on the foot.

Da Ya was in the middle of his day, and he could manage things there. Seeing that Wu Chen didn't say anything, he walked to the front desk. He bought it for an unknown amount of money. He walked back triumphantly, and handed the ancient coin to Xu Jing.

Seeing Xu Jing's cheerful look, Wu Chen smiled wryly and shook his head, well, it's hard to change a beautiful woman's smile, you don't have to give up everything, let alone a copper coin?

"By the way, pig head, you haven't said anything about the difference between Tongbao and Shengbao. You're so surprised." Lin Zhen asked Wu Chen when they saw that the deal was completed.

"Everyone should know the word "Tianguo", which refers to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." Wu Chen chuckled, seeing Xu Qian holding that big coin in his hand, he couldn't put it down.

"Oh, it's this heaven, I thought it was..." After Da Ya finished speaking, he put his finger on it.

"...Didn't that become a ghost coin, bah!" Wu Chen was speechless for a while, Da Ya probably interrupted on purpose, and he is also a history buff anyway, so I don't know.

"However, it was said that after the Taiping Army captured Nanjing, it was renamed Tianjing and began to mint its own currency. At the beginning, it also followed the traditional method, called Tianguo Tongbao. But not long after the casting was carried out, the Chinese government made regulations. The words 'Tongbao' will be abolished and the words 'Shengbao' will be used instead."

"Hehe, interesting, what is this for? Go to heaven?" Da Ya couldn't help but said, he really didn't know about this, not only him, but most of these people's understanding of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was only in middle school history books, Many of them have been forgotten by now, only one name is remembered!

"Everyone knows the origin of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The word 'holy' is derived from the religious program of Jesus as the savior. Therefore, most of the Taiping army's holy treasury, holy food, holy soldiers, etc. used the word 'holy'. Of course this coin must be the same." Wu Chen explained to them a little bit.

"Don't interrupt!" Xu Qian and Lin Zhen were enjoying listening, and when they saw that Da Ya was about to interrupt Wu Chen again, they gave him a sideways look and urged Wu Chen to continue talking.

"After the restructuring, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stopped minting and recycling the 'Tianguo Tongbao' coins very quickly, and changed to minting new coins." Wu Chen has a little understanding of ancient coins. I have checked the information, and now I just have the opportunity to popularize it for them.

"This new big coin still has the word 'Heavenly Kingdom' on the front, but 'Sacred Treasure' on the back. The main ones are worth ten coins, which is the so-called 'Sacred Treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven'. , 'Treasure of the Kingdom of Heaven' carrying Taiping, 'Sacred Treasure of Taiping' carrying the Kingdom of Heaven and other 10 different formats of small money."

"Wait, wait..." Da Ya and the others were stunned by his blow, what to recite, what to do, it's all meaningless!

Wu Chen had no choice but to explain it to them. Generally speaking, ancient coins are the style of the front and the style of the back, so that people in the industry can roughly know what it looks like when they hear it. It means that the four characters of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are engraved on the front, and the words of Holy Treasure are engraved in the shape of a cross on the back.

As for "dang", it is also called "fold", which is a concept corresponding to "Xiaoping".Xiaoping refers to the most common penny, also known as Xiaoping money, zhengyiqian, which is also called a penny in costume TV dramas, and its diameter is generally about 2 centimeters.

And "fold" is a special term for ancient coins, which refers to a system of denominations of ancient coins, which means the smallest unit of measurement of how many coins are converted.For example, the value of one ten-fold coin is equivalent to the value of ten Xiaoping coins (ten wen), and the size of ten-fold coins in ancient coins is generally about 4 centimeters.

"Is it like this? If Xiaoping money represents one yuan, five yuan will be five yuan, and ten yuan will be ten yuan." After hearing this, Da Ya immediately said by inference.

"As expected of a genius!" Wu Chen gave him a praise without hesitation!It's really such a simple sentence to talk nonsense.

"What about this sacred treasure? Is it a big coin or a small coin?" Xu Jing held the ancient coin in her hand, feeling heavy, and asked expectantly, "Also, is it because this holy word is rarely used, so it is more important?" valuable?"

"This one of yours belongs to Xiaoping. It's in such good condition, it's not bad." Wu Chen looked at it himself just now. Although he didn't know much about ancient coins, he shouldn't guess wrong by comparing them with the albums he had seen before.

"As for the value? In fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only lasted more than ten years. Due to the short casting period, there were not many coins, and they were only used in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, there were very few handed down items. Tongbao'big coins can be said to be very rare, and only twelve or thirteen pieces have been found so far, except for two that were lost overseas in the early years, and the rest are in China."

"How much is this Tianguo Tongbao worth?" Da Ya saw that Wu Chen used to say such empty words as precious and rare, did he have no idea at all!

"Hehe, this 'Tianguo Tongbao' is listed on the list of fifty rare ancient coins. I don't know exactly how much it is. I just remember seeing it once. It seems that the market price is more than 30." Wu Chen can only rely on memory. Said, I don't have a lot of ideas in my heart.

"It's so expensive? It would be great if it was available here." After hearing this, Da Ya licked his tongue, ready to check again.

Wu Chen smiled wryly and shook his head, let alone Heavenly Kingdom Tongbao, even Heavenly Kingdom Holy Treasure’s big money, it will not be put in this pile of junk that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, let you choose, the store doesn’t understand , How could such a clear leak be possible!

"Actually, this small coin is also pretty good. Generally, the four characters 'Taiping Heavenly Kingdom' are on the front, and the word 'Heavenly Kingdom' recites 'Sacred Treasure' like this. It should be an early minted coin. There are two types of Xiaoping and Zheshi. Xiaoping is relatively rare." See, it should be worth [-] to [-] yuan, ten discounts are more common, and there are many formats, the market price of the ordinary version is only about a few thousand yuan."

"So that's it." Everyone nodded in admiration, and Xu Jing rubbed the ancient coin in her hand, looking like she couldn't put it down, and suddenly said in surprise: "Hey, why is this Chinese character missing a bit? No Is it fake?"

"That's right! The national character of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is Congwang not Congyu. It is said that Master Hong thinks that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a kingly way. If it is a little more, it will be fake." Wu Chen said with a smile.

"That would be great! Thank you!" Xu Jing smiled and said to Da Ya, her neat white teeth were extraordinarily beautiful.

"Thank you! Go back and make a red rope and tie it on your feet, so you can stay safe!" Da Ya looked indifferent, but in his heart he was thinking wretchedly of a red anklet on his white and tender feet. How tempting.

Wu Chen saw what was going on here, and went to look at the bronze statue again. Da Ya saw him running over again and again, thinking that there was something good, he followed him, squatted down, and saw Wu Chen staring at the rotten copper statue in a daze .

"What the hell?" No wonder Da Ya couldn't see it. This bronze figure is naked, like a man standing upright without clothes. It has nothing to do with any Buddha statue. The workmanship is rough, not only the face is blurred, but the legs are close together Everything is sticky together, the whole is a piece of copper pile.

"Bronze Man!" Wu Chen had already looked at it carefully, and he was concerned.

"The Eighteen Bronze Figures of Shaolin Temple?" Da Ya looked at the ugly bronze figure, a little puzzled. Could it be that he wanted to buy this wood for practice?Wing Chun is hot now, and wooden stakes are being driven everywhere, but this bronze figure is naked, so it could be directly hit on it, it is made of pure copper, don't be kidding.

"I don't know, it just looks weird, I want to buy it back and study it carefully." Wu Chen really couldn't think of any good excuses, so he could only perfunctory.

"Isn't this just a broken blank of a cast bronze statue, a lump of copper, I don't know, it was pulled out from that garbage dump, and it was sold by the catty, right?" Li Xuezhi said coldly from the side. Wu Chen reminded him, maybe the person who received the goods from this store thought so too, so he hugged them back, as much as he could sell.

Da Ya didn't want to do it when he heard it, although he didn't think much of Wu Chen's buying this junk, but he couldn't make Wu Chen lose face, and said angrily, "Damn it, buddy, can't buy it and study copper casting technology? Eat it. Is it wise to learn from a pit, sometimes the experience of failure is more valuable than the experience of success!"

Wu Chen didn't care where they were arguing, and called the guy over to ask the price.The guy saw that the buyer was indeed a buyer, so he was unambiguous, and directly quoted 2 yuan. This price is of course much more expensive than buying it by catty, but according to the price of the object, such a large bronze statue only costs [-] yuan. It's much cheaper. This thing has been sitting in a corner for years. If Wu Chen hadn't pulled it out, everyone would have ignored its existence.