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- Chapter 412: Chamber Pot as a Treasure
"Old man, are you kidding? These are banknotes from the Kuomintang period. You know how precious they are. They are probably very rare now. If it weren't for Uncle Guangxi's family to steal the old house, you might not have seen it. One is actually worth ten yuan. .Are you kidding" As soon as Mr. Xu finished speaking, Liu Junqi started shouting next to him. Mr. Guo was a frequent visitor to Liujiagou. Liu Junqi didn't treat him as an outsider, so he didn't speak politely.
"Haha, Junqi, what school did you graduate from?" Mr. Guo was not annoyed, but asked with a smile.
"Junior high school I didn't pass the exam. What's wrong? What does this have to do with me going to school?" Liu Junqi looked at him in confusion.
"No wonder, I guess so. Do you know what kind of money this is?" Mr. Guo clapped a few banknotes in his hand and asked, "This is the legal currency of the Kuomintang period. It is in the history textbooks."
"This is legal tender?" Liu Junhao suddenly realized. I had mentioned it in books before when I was taking history, but this was the first time I saw it in person.
"French currency? Legal currency is also money. What's wrong? This is five hundred yuan. It can buy dozens of kilograms of pork now." Liu Junqi didn't know what the old man wanted to express.
"Haha, it seems that I want to popularize some currency knowledge for you." Seeing this man's attitude of "I am illiterate, who am I afraid of?" Mr. Guo shook his head helplessly and explained in detail, "The Kuomintang implemented the 'legal currency' in 1935." Reform', at that time, it was stipulated that banknotes issued by the central government, the China Banking Corporation, and the Three Banks of Communications were legal tender. At the same time, silver coins were prohibited from circulating on the market, and silver was forced to be nationalized.
On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the total amount of legal tender issued was only a billion yuan. By the time Japan surrendered, the total amount of legal tender issued had reached 500 billion yuan. By 1947, the issuance amount had increased to nearly 20 trillion yuan. In 1948, the issuance amount reached 700 billion yuan. Can you tell me how many times the difference is? "
Seeing that Liu Junqi was still wrenching his fingers, he opened his mouth to tell the answer, "Let me tell you, the circulation volume is equal to half a million times that before the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, prices increased more than 30 million times, and the legal currency completely collapsed. The same one hundred yuan legal currency, In 37 years, you can buy two oxen, in 45 years, you can only buy two eggs, and in 47 years, you can only buy one briquette.
"The denomination of five hundred yuan of legal tender is not that big. I have seen denominations of one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand. You can't even imagine the maximum denomination of legal tender issued by the Xinjiang Provincial Bank at that time"
Mr. Guo was at a loss when he mentioned this. Liu Junqi urged: "Old man, how much is it?"
"Six billion yuan, regardless of the large denomination, can only buy a box of matches. This kind of five-hundred-yuan legal currency is everywhere. I have hundreds of them in my hand, and the quality is better than what you have in your hand."
¡°Emotions used to be just waste paper, useless for anything except going to the toilet?¡± Liu Junqi, who had not experienced that era, would find it difficult to imagine such crazy things.
"Haha, in order to save a match, people used legal currency to light cigarettes."
"Then you said these five legal coins are only worth a hundred yuan?" Up to now, several young people are still a little unbelievable. They just thought they had found a treasure.
"You have to find a buyer for one hundred yuan. I don't want it anyway. I have a lot of this kind of legal currency at home, and the quality is better than this one. You can collect it yourself and keep it as a curiosity at home." Mr. Guo suggested.
"Forget it, let's keep it for Uncle Guangxi as a souvenir. I want this thing for no use." Liu Junqi curled his lips. He really couldn't see more than ten or twenty yuan now.
¡°Let¡¯s give each person one piece, it will just be your wages for today,¡± Er Mazi also joked. He is quite disappointed now, mainly because the difference between ideal and reality is too big. I thought I had dug up a golden doll, but I was overjoyed.
"Hey, what is this?" Professor Guo was about to turn around and leave, but his eyes suddenly lit up and he leaned over to pick up the paper box.
¡°This is a box for legal currency, like a cigarette case.¡± Liu Junhao explained. The cigarette case was relatively old, and this was the first time he had heard of this brand of cigarettes.
"It is a valuable thing. If you find the right person, I can give you at least 800 yuan." Guo Zhenhua said with excitement.
"Old man, are you talking nonsense? Is this rotten cigarette box worth hundreds of dollars?" The crowd who listened to him was dumbfounded again.
This is the first time they heard that money is not valuable, but a waste paper cigarette box is valuable.
Seeing everyone's expectant eyes, Mr. Guo explained, "Don't you understand this? Some people like to collect cigarette labels, which are the empty cigarette boxes we used to smoke. This cigarette box is from the Anti-Japanese War theme of "Winning" during the Republic of China. "There are very few cigarette labels that can be preserved now. If you meet someone who plays with cigarette labels, you can get them for 800 yuan."
¡°Really???Lao Guo, can you find me a buyer? "When he heard that this broken cigarette box was valuable, Er Mazi still couldn't believe it, and asked urgently. He wanted to sell this thing as soon as possible, and he would feel at ease when the money was in his hands.
"No problem, if you want to sell, I can help you contact the buyer now. A friend of mine specializes in collecting cigarette labels." Mr. Guo is an enthusiastic person and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
While he was talking on the phone, the crowd started talking again. They didn't expect that things would take a turn for the worse. Er Mazi's house was so wrong.
"Okay, I will keep this cigarette label for him first, and I will give you the money when I get back." Mr. Guo said after making the call.
"Lao Guo, don't leave in a hurry. Let's see if these copper coins of mine are valuable. I dug them when I was digging for river rocks in the countryside" While talking, Liu Laosan had already taken a few copper coins from home.
"Oh, the copper coins of the Qing Dynasty with the original light center E Shiwen are worth fifty yuan. A few Qianlong Tongbao are worthless, one is worth two yuan at most." Mr. Guo was idle, and he was there for free. Everyone makes an appraisal.
"There are also these coins. I just heard Jun Qi say they are valuable. Do you want to see if they are useful?" Liu Laosan said and took out a few more pennies from his pocket.
¡°These pennies of yours are very common and worthless, so you should take them home and pack them away.¡± After looking at them, Lao Guo smiled and shook his head.
"No, isn't it said that one cent can now be sold for more than a thousand yuan?" Liu Laosan asked unwillingly.
"Haha, the coins depend on the year. The most valuable ones are the 'Five Heavenly Kings'. Five-cent coins from 1979, 1980, and 1981, as well as two-cent coins from 1980 and one-cent coins from 1981. Two years ago. Each set of the 'Five Heavenly Kings' was less than 2 yuan, and now it has soared to more than 5 yuan. Coins of other years are not valuable," Lao Guo explained patiently when he saw that everyone was listening attentively.
¡°Oh, I¡¯ll go home and look for it, too. I have the impression that I have a lot of coins at home.¡± Hearing that a set of coins was worth several thousand yuan, Liu Guangju couldn¡¯t hold himself back and was about to turn around and go home.
"Don't go back and look for it. You won't find it." Lao Guo stopped him. "Hard cent coins with a small circulation basically do not enter the domestic market and are only sold to foreign tourists as tourist souvenirs. This makes the price natural." Not cheap. It would be rare to have one in your family"
"Master Guo, what do you think of these copper coins of mine?" Before he could finish his explanation, Liu Qiyong also came over with a few copper coins.
"This is not valuable, this is not valuable either." Mr. Guo scratched the coin with his fingers and suddenly glared, "This is not a copper coin, it is a silver coin. It was made in the Xuantong year and is worth a thousand yuan. But your appearance is too poor. , why is it so dirty?"
"Is this silver?" Liu Qiyong realized that the copper coins he had kept for more than ten years were actually made of silver. When he was a child, he liked to play with copper coins, put them on a kerosene lamp and bake them, causing both sides of the coins to become covered in black smoke. No wonder Guo Zhenhua didn't notice it at first sight.
Three people were identified in a row, and the atmosphere was completely heightened. The villagers in Liujiagou went home one after another to get copper coins and banknotes for Mr. Guo to do the identification. The most outrageous thing was Mr. Liu Wu, who brought over half a bag of copper coins in a snakeskin bag.
A tourist next to him was dumbfounded and couldn't help but pull Liu Junhao and asked, "Xiaohao, how come there are so many people in your village with copper coins?"
"Haha, it's normal. They are all picked up from the fields." Liu Junhao was not lying to him. When farming in the countryside, he often picked up things like copper coins. It would be abnormal for any house to not have a few copper coins. He also had a few strings of copper coins at home, but he had already checked them online and found they were worthless, so he didn't intend to use them to embarrass himself. People who have no experience living in rural areas cannot imagine such a thing. One of the main sources of copper coins in the fields is ancient burial objects. As time goes by, the tombs gradually disappear, and people are likely to dig these things out again when plowing the fields. . In addition, the Baitiao River near Liujiagou was a dock in ancient times, and business transactions were quite frequent.
Thinking of this, Liu Junhao's heart moved, and he remembered that there were still a few copper coins in a rotten bamboo basket at home. Last time he checked that the Qianlong Tongbao was worthless, and he never looked for it again. Now that Mr. Guo is here to take charge, why not take this opportunity to get it for him to appraise.
When he got home, he dug out the rotten bamboo basket and took it outside the hospital. Suddenly, a pungent smell hit his nostrils. There were many corpses of insects inside, which made him feel sick.
"Not worth anything." Guo Zhenhua shook his head after seeing Liu Junhao's few copper coins.
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With the popularity of archeology in recent years, many people like to watch archeology programs on TV. There were many people who became rich overnight on TV. After Mr. Guo explained the introduction, more and more people came to the scene.
In the end, Liu Guangju found a porcelain vase at home. It was identified as being from the Republic of China period and was worth five thousand yuan. Some tourists offered to buy it on the spot, butLiu Guangju doesn't plan to sell it, but wants to keep it as a family heirloom.
Zhao Guangming heard somewhere that someone in Liujiagou could identify cultural relics for free. After calling Liu Junhao, he also packed up two things from home and ran over.
"Old man, look what this thing is. I dug it out of the ground. It has the Chinese character "ÀÏ" engraved on it, which is different from our simplified Chinese characters" Zhao Guangming handed the broken copperware to Guo Zhenhua as if he was holding a treasure. before.
"This Phew," Mr. Guo laughed as soon as he took it. "This is a copper chamber pot used by the elderly in the past. It is worth dozens of dollars. It was made after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The writing in the patina is "produced by XX Factory."
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