Seeing Zhao Tianming shaking his head, Comber and Zhou Yun were a little disappointed. The furniture in this hall, as well as the tea set, were items they had high hopes for, but they were not antiques at all.

There were some other things in the house, messy, and even less likely to be of value.

"Let's go, let's take a look at the others!" Zhao Tianming looked around, the things in this hall were almost these, and he didn't find anything valuable.

Comber led the way, and walked through every room.

Because he had to go out, these days, Comber's gambler son is about to empty the house. Some pull garbage, dismantle it, and throw it away. Comber had also seen that those should not be treasures, so he let him fiddle with them, and some of them were for him to stay.

At some point, Zhou Yun took out a few banknotes that looked quite old and handed them over.

"Look at these, aren't banknote collections quite popular right now? These should be worth some money. Zhou Yun said.

She knows that even if it is RMB, the collection is very hot now. The ones she found were supposed to be older currencies and were definitely worth a fortune.

Zhao Tianming looked at it: "This is legal tender!"

"It's impossible, isn't it? The French currency obviously has Chinese characters. Zhou Yun was surprised.

Comber thought for a moment: "It seems to be the money before liberation, but don't look at its large denomination, you can't buy things before." This kind of money is very worthless. ”

At that time, he was still very young, and in his memory, this kind of money was very difficult to spend.

Zhao Tianming nodded: "It is the currency of the Republic of China, also known as legal tender, but it is not the currency of the French." ”

He explained that this is the government of the Republic of China using the banknotes issued by the central bank, the Bank of China, and the Bank of Communications as legal tender, prohibiting the circulation of silver, issuing national credit legal tender, and replacing the silver yuan of the silver standard.

At that time, in fact, the government of the Republic of China was also engaged in monetary policy.

Because of the competition between Western countries to reduce the value of their currencies and devalue the exchange rate, in order to increase exports and reduce imports, China's export trade has been plundered by Western countries, the number of exported goods has decreased, and the prices have fallen, resulting in domestic planting and manufacturing, as well as agriculture, industry and commerce. In China's domestic market, due to the influence of unreasonable exchange rates in various countries, imported goods are sold cheaply, which greatly oppresses the market prices of China's agricultural and industrial products.

The financial tension worsened as the economic crisis progressed, and the purpose and ambition of monopolizing the country's finances drove the Nanjing Nationalist government to fundamentally consider China's currency reform.

However, due to the sharp depreciation of the fiat currency, the Nationalist Government again carried out currency reform in 1948. The gold dollar was stipulated as the standard, and the issuance of gold dollar coupons began.

However, the gold dollar coupon expanded faster than the fiat currency, rising by 1.7 million times in ten months, and various places rejected it. The people automatically reused the silver dollar, and the national government then used the silver standard currency system and issued silver dollar bills.

"Throughout the history of more than 1,000 years of paper money, the most complex of which is the Republic of China banknotes, the Republic of China banknotes have distinctive characteristics: complex and varied, a variety of patterns, as well as different printing techniques and the use of paper advantages and disadvantages, formed the most spectacular and colorful Republic of China banknotes, so far it is not possible to count how many banks, money banks, firms, etc. have printed how many banknotes. Zhao Tianming introduced.

In short, the currency of the Republic of China period is rarely collectible.

"That's a shame. Unexpectedly, during the Republic of China, money was not money. Zhou Yun said depressedly.

Zhao Tianming smiled faintly: "That's not necessarily, among so many currencies of the Republic of China, there are also high-quality products, such as the Manchuria Central Bank's reform of the bills, in this year's auction, it created an auction record of nearly one million." ”

As far as he knows, the Manchuria Central Bank's reform notes are not only the first set of currencies issued by the bank, but also the beginning of the issuance of currencies by various Japanese puppet regimes, which have important physical value for the study of the monetary and financial history of the occupied areas, and are the most important honorary items for the collection of Japanese counterfeit currency series and the Northeast series.

"Isn't Manchuria still the Qing Dynasty?" Zhou Yun was a little puzzled.

During the Republic of China, it was still called Manchuria? Wasn't this word unique to the Qing Dynasty?

"During the Republic of China, it was also called Manchuria. In fact, the currency I just talked about was still made by the RB people, and there are very few surviving in the world, and it is beautifully made, so it is more collectible. Zhao Tianming explained.

In addition, there is also the Bank of China revised bill, which is also a rare banknote among the many currencies of the Republic of China, which is quite favored by coin collectors.

The Xinhai Revolution was victorious, and the Daqing Bank was closed. In February of the first year of the Republic of China, the Bank of China was established in SH, and in August of the same year, the Ministry of Finance allocated another fund to organize the Bank of China in BJ, and SH Bank was changed to a branch.

However, at the beginning of its establishment, the Bank of China had not yet arrived and a large backlog of Qing bank bills had been abandoned, so it stamped the banknotes of the portrait of Li Hongzhang in the third year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty with the words "Bank of China Exchange Coupons" and "the first year of the Republic of China" as banknotes for the transitional period of the bank.

Soon the "Emperor Portrait" banknote printed by the American banknote company was delivered, and the original bill was withdrawn, because the stamped bill was used for a short time and was completely recovered, so the number of surviving was scarce, and it became a rare variety of the Bank of China.

"This kind of currency can't even dry up the collection of food stamps. Zhao Tianming put down the banknotes from the Republic of China.

Zhou Yun asked Comber: "Comber, don't you have the money that you used to have? It seems to be quite valuable now." ”

Some time ago, she saw the news that a banknote could be exchanged for a suite.

Zhao Tianming immediately smiled when he heard what she said. A banknote for a suite, the RMB is not so powerful for the time being, and the wrong currency is said separately.

Among the cents, the value of the coins that has risen the most is the 80 version of the 1 cent coin, which has risen 150,000 times. But that's only 1,500 yuan!

In the old version of the renminbi, the most valuable is actually 10 yuan in the second set of renminbi. On the market, the "Big Black Ten" has reached more than two or three hundred thousand.

It was printed by the former Soviet Union and measures 210 mm × 85 mm, making it the largest of all the renminbi. The base color of the coin is black, and the obverse is a typical image of a man and a woman as a worker and peasant; There is a watermark of the national emblem on the left side of the front as an anti-counterfeiting mark; The banknotes have wide white edges on the four sides, so they are commonly known as "Workers and Peasants", "Big White Edges", "Big Black Ten" and so on.

"If you want to say that one yuan for one house, there is this possibility. Zhao Tianming shook his head with a smile.

He picked up the envelope that had fallen to the ground, and it contained stationery. However, Zhao Tianming didn't read the content inside.

"Don't read people's letters. Zhou Yun said, even if it was decades ago, but that was privacy!

"It's worth some money. Zhao Tianming said.

Zhou Yun and Comber looked at Zhao Tianming incredulously, a letter is worth a lot, isn't it?