"Alas...... It's a pity that many stamps have dirt and impure color on them, so they are not very valuable. ”

As a philatelic enthusiast for many years before the rebirth of later generations, He Zilong knew a lot about valuable stamps, and soon distinguished which stamps on the envelopes were worth and what their condition was, and which stamps were just ordinary stamps or were not in good condition.

To its pity, the top envelopes may have been stained with a lot of oil due to gaps in the small boxes, and some of them were also due to Yagen's lack of maintenance, which caused the envelopes and stamps to have some moldy spots. It can be described as a semi-waste!

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not them I'm looking for, as long as the memory of my youth is correct, there should be more than a dozen 80-year-old monkey tickets in it. Where? Yes, I remember correctly. In this ......" Suddenly, He Zilong's previous face was tired, and he only felt that his eyes were bright.

Halfway through the envelope in the small box, the real target he was looking for finally appeared. I saw that there were more than a dozen red-edged envelopes, and there were also more than a dozen fiery eight-cent stamps pasted on them.

The stamps are flaming red with a black monkey in the middle, with eyes that look like a kaleidoscope of writing wheels, and are priced at eight cents.

This is the first zodiac stamp issued by the legendary New China, the Gengshen Year stamp, referred to as the monkey stamp!

Gengshen year is 1980, the year is the year of the monkey, this year the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued the number T46 "Gengshen year" (red monkey) stamp issued on February 15, 1980, a set of 1, face value 8 points, stamp size 26×31mm, perforation 11.5 degrees, the number of full sheets 8 * 10 = 80 pieces, the print volume of 5 million pieces (but its actual circulation is estimated to be only about 3.6 million), shadow carving overprint, the original painting author Huang Yongyu, the designer Shao Bolin, the engraver Jiang Weijie, printed by BJ stamp factory.

Of course, this is not the focus of He Zilong's concern now.

The point is, this stamp is really worth a lot of money, and it's worth a lot of money. Pushed back about 20 years, the market value of the whole page of a version of the monkey stamp has risen to a sky-high price of nearly 1.2 million yuan, creating a world myth of the appreciation of Chinese stamps.

Around 2010, a single piece was about 1,600-2,000 yuan, and the value increased by 20,000 times in face value. Two or thirty thousand times the profit, enough to scare people!

Even in 1991, when he was reborn now, if this zodiac monkey stamp was taken to the market and collectors who were willing to buy him, and the brand-new stamp was exchanged for a few hundred or nearly 1,000 yuan or so, there would be no problem at all.

That is, a random monkey ticket is equivalent to about two or three months of your parents' salary.

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"It's still a pity, these dozen monkey stamps are all used, stamped and sent used monkey stamps, definitely can't be compared with brand new stamps......" Gently took down the dozen 80-year-old zodiac monkey stamps and put them away, He Zilong sighed and said to himself.

The condition of a stamp is one of the most important factors in assessing the value of a stamp, and the price of a good stamp is also high. Used stamps are postmarked and have an impact on their market value.

Of course, if the postmark is only stamped in the lower right or left corner of the commemorative stamp, and only a small area is stamped, this old stamp is in the best condition, and the market value is about half of that of a new stamp.

In other words, the smaller the stamp on it, the more valuable it is, and the more the price is halved, or one-third. In addition, the coloring and clarity of the postmark on the stamp, and the ink of the postmark cause pollution to the stamp, which also has a considerable impact on the value of the stamp.

In addition, other factors are also important factors that affect the condition of stamps. Common stamps are different, in addition to the postmark caused by poor stamps, the quality of stamps also has the following situations: damage, creases, incomplete perforations, thinning, abrasions, mildew, ink stains, fingerprints, fading, etc.

The dozen or so zodiac monkey stamps in front of him, based on the level of He Zilong's philatelic collection for many years in later generations, can be judged to be three grades. Considering the market price in 1991, I already have the initial tone in mind.

In total, nineteen, nine of the upper class, five of the medium, four of the lower middle, and one and a half of scrap. Semi-scrap is ignored for the time being, if memory serves. In the Changzhutan area during this period, the market price of a new monkey ticket is about 1,000 yuan!

In other words, nine high-grade used monkey tickets can be exchanged for about 5,000 yuan in the market. Five medium-sized products can be exchanged for about 2,000 yuan, four medium-to-low-class, and about 1,000 yuan, and the semi-waste products are mixed together as gifts.

"And that bunch of old stamps and so on, two by one, added to five, packed and processed. It is estimated that with the monkey ticket, it is enough to be a 10,000 yuan household...... However, if you want to make a clean shot at one time, it is estimated that you will only have to go to second-tier cities. Looking at the other stamps on the bed, He Zilong's heart was summarized.

10,000 yuan households, fifteen or sixteen-year-old students in the nineties are 10,000 yuan households, hehe.

In the 70s, when it came to "10,000 households", it was absolutely amazing! It was simply a god, admirable, amazing!

In the 80s, the gold content of 10,000 households declined, but it is definitely still synonymous with greatness. You know, in the 80s, the price of rice was about 0.14 yuan, the price of meat was about 0.95 yuan, and it was only about 2 yuan for relatives to give gifts, and adults generally gave children 0.1-0.2 yuan for the New Year, and 10,000 yuan could buy a lot of things.

He Zilong is now reborn in the 90s, and it stands to reason that there are many people who can become 10,000 yuan households in the 90s. But don't forget, this was only 1991, and it's still sticking to the last tail of the 80s. Therefore, if anyone is a 10,000 yuan household now, it is also a thing that will make people feel very shocked. It's definitely like this in a small county town!

Anyway, in his own situation, if there is no foreign wealth, it is in He Zilong's memory. It seems that my parents had to save another four or five years, until 1996, when they saved enough 10,000 yuan, and ten years later, in 2001, they saved enough 50,000 yuan.

Why did it take so many years to save so much money?

Thinking about this, He Zilong clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth, his expression was a little unwilling, and his eyes turned red. Isn't it because of the wave of layoffs in the 90s?

Calculating the time, the chemical factory where my mother is now working must have already begun to spread the news of layoffs, right? And next year, workers will begin to be laid off one after another. And after about two years, a large number of laid-off workers will begin to appear in the nitrogen fertilizer factory where my father works.

In my memory, when my mother was laid off from the chemical factory, my family could not live in the family home. Not only did they lose their jobs, their family income was reduced by half, but they were also homeless. I have to rent a house outside to live, which is an extra expense. I couldn't make ends meet, so I had to bear the old book that I had eaten for two or three years, but I didn't wait for the situation at home to improve. Dad is laid off again!

During that time, He Zilong remembered it clearly. My parents are only about forty years old, but their temples are gray early, sighing all day long, and there is no smile on their faces. It's rare for the whole family to eat meat a few times a year!

In order to earn money, after being laid off, the parents went to work at the construction site, set up a stall, and sold fruit stalls along the street. I went out of the house before dawn in the morning, and I didn't go back to sit at home until the moon came out. That's it, the income is still very small, just enough to barely get by.

The pitiful 10,000 yuan saved in four or five years was almost exchanged for saving his life in the midst of malnutrition and yellow muscle thinness, just for He Zilong to study in high school and take the university entrance examination. It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world!

In He Zilong's impression, his parents did not get enough sleep because of long-term malnutrition. In addition, he was pushing a small stall car around all day long, and there were several small car accidents. At that time, his parents fell seriously ill. As a result, the second elder lived a very miserable life in his later years, and his father died early when he first reached retirement age!

It can really be said that Qingfu has not enjoyed it for a day!

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