Chapter 707: Coin Treasures - Fifty Treasures
In this treasure map of the Qing Dynasty, there is unparalleled wealth.
Among them, antiques are the majority, and yellow and white things are scarce.
This treasure, Zhou Rui didn't know why it was left behind.
But what is certain is that the owner of this treasure must not be simple.
Among the treasures, there are jade from the Warring States period, bronzes, bronzes from the Western Han Dynasty, and clay pots.
Of course, the most are the items of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Whether it is porcelain, or gold and silver jewelry.
Most of the coins are from the Qing Dynasty, but there are also some from other dynasties.
Among the dazzling array of coins, Zhou Rui selected twenty-four coins of fifty treasures.
Of course, there are duplicates among the twenty-four.
The largest number of them is the Chongqing ingot, with a total of eight pieces.
Chongqing ingots were cast during the Chongqing period of King Jin Weishao and were cast in bronze. There are two kinds of ingots and tongbao.
The ingots are the five big coins of the seal book, that is, the fold five, the diameter is 3.5 centimeters;
Chongqing ingots are very rare, some books call them "unique products", in fact, it is understood that there are five or six genuine pieces preserved in the country.
Chongqing ingots are not recorded in the annals.
Only a unique product was unearthed in Liaozhong, as big as folding five, and the shape and text are similar to Tai and heavy treasures. The four characters of "Chongqing ingots" are jade seals, rotated reading, and there is no text on the back. The copper color of the money body is blue and white, the production is fine, the text is beautiful, imitating the Chongning money system, but careful scrutiny is still inevitable.
In modern times, many Quanjia in Beijing and Shanghai were judged as fakes, and the numismatist Zheng Jiaxiang thought it was Jinquan.
In addition to Chongqing ingots, there are also three Yuande heavy treasures.
Yuande heavy treasure, Western Xia Chongzong Emperor Yuande cast during the Yuande period. The layout is a two-fold type of money. Qian Wenkai script, the diameter is generally 2.7 cm. There are only two or three pieces in existence, which are rare and have no price. Emperor Chongzong also minted "Yuande Tongbao" money.
Very rare.
Twenty-four fifty-treasure coins, including eight Chongqing Yuanbao, three Yuande Chongbao, four Jingkang Tongbao, five Zhizheng Bao, three Qianheng Tongbao and the last one Tianqi Tongbao.
Each of these coins can be regarded as a first-class cultural relic.
The main reason is that there are few surviving quantities.
So it looks precious.
Zhou Rui still remembers that at an auction, a pair of stamps were auctioned for a sky-high price.
Later, the person who won the stamp at the auction directly tore one of the stamps to shreds.
Then he said to the people below.
"From now on, there will be only one such stamp in the world".
And the stamp has become a one-of-a-kind product.
Not only has it not decreased, but the price has become higher.
Why?
Isn't it because it's a one-of-a-kind product?
"Jingkang Tongbao" and "Jingkang Yuanbao" were cast during the Northern Song Dynasty - Song Qinzong, and he was exiled to the north after 16 months of reign.
Therefore, the amount of "Jingkang" money minted is very small, and "Jingkang Tongbao" is even rarer, and it is a national first-class cultural relic.
Among the hundreds of thousands of coins, there are only four Jingkang Tongbao, and there is no shadow of Jingkang ingots.
The treasure of the righteousness is minted during the period from Emperor Shun to Zheng of the Yuan Dynasty, all of which are large coins, which are used to represent the parallel payment of banknotes and paper money.
The money is heavy and well-made. There are several types such as ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, etc.
The face text "The Treasure of Righteousness" is a Duanli regular book, read directly.
Wear the "ancient" on the back to record the supervision of Ji'an Road, Jiangxi; Wear the right for the currency value of silver weight, see "Wu Fen", "one money", "one money Wu fen", "two money Wu fen" and "Wu money" five kinds. "Wu Qian" is worth half a tael of silver banknotes and 500 copper coins, which is the largest of the "power banknotes"; the diameter is 8 centimeters, and the weight is about 120 grams, which is the largest square hole round coin ever appeared. It is exercised by copper money banknotes, also known as "positive power banknotes". The style of Qian calligraphy is particularly handsome and smooth, which is the same as the calligraphy of "Zhizheng Tongbao". These copper coins are relatively rare and extremely expensive.
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Even on a national scale, it is uncommon.
This has also led to a constant increase in its price.
Moreover, many rich collectors want to collect, but with banknotes, they can't buy it at all.
In the end, it was the Apocalypse Tongbao, and Zhou Rui rummaged through all the coins, but there was only one.
What's worse is that there is a scratch on it, like a scar.
I don't know if it was a bump or what the reason is.
Apocalypse Tongbao, the word on the back of the Apocalypse Tongbao is the Ming Dynasty, Mingguangzong did not mint money, because it reigned only a few months, did not mint money, his son Ming Xizong in the first year of the Apocalypse first minted his father's year name "Taichang" money, called "Taichang Tongbao".
This money is a small flat money, the real book is read directly, the copper color is light red, there are also brass coins, there are not many versions, there are back moon, back star money, and the money diameter is up to 2.9 cm, as big as the wide Guo large sample money of folding two coins, and there is also a small money with a diameter of 2.3-2.4 cm.
Ming Xizong cast Taichang Tongbao money only one year, the following year to start casting "Apocalypse Tongbao", in the same year set up the household Baoquan Bureau, called "Qian Fatang", since then by the household department in charge of coinage. The coins minted are mainly used for military needs, the army's coinage furnace only retains the three towns in the northwest, and the southeast is all canceled, at this time the country formed three minting centers, respectively, the two capitals and the Sichuan region, but the three years of the Apocalypse, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, the eunuch disorderly government, the indiscriminate minting situation appeared again, and the local money bureau appeared in large numbers, so the version of the apocalypse money minted was very many, and the difference was large.
A large number of money backings appear in the form of land, bureau, weight and other forms. It has only appeared in the Wanli period before, but the version is limited.
Therefore, the complex period of the numismatic system of the Ming Dynasty began in the year of the Apocalypse. In order to make up for the financial deficit in the year of the Apocalypse, the previous method was still solved by increasing the amount of coinage.
In this case, the provincial money bureaus across the country abuse money in order to make profits. A large amount of light and inferior money was mixed with official money, which formed a sharp contrast with the tradition of making money in the early Ming Dynasty and striving for refinement and beauty.
"Apocalypse Tongbao" was first cast as a small flat coin, and then opened as ten coins.
In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, because the official and private coins minted too much and too bad, they ordered to stop minting, and the imperial court issued silver and recovered it as ten coins, and the minting period of the big coins was only three years; the weight of the Apocalypse money was originally set to be one dollar and three cents, and the thousand coins weighed eight catties and eight taels, but later because the official coinage was too indiscriminate, the small money weighed only seven cents, and the thousand coins weighed only four catties and eight taels, and the copper content was less than three percent. In addition, there is a kind of "folded sand coin" that was cast by melting copper with Japanese lead and tin pins, and the copper was folded at this time.
The Apocalypse Xiaoping Qian is divided into two categories: the back is more complex than the Wanli money, and there are many types of stars and moon patterns cast on the back; The word "order" is the word "order", which means that the eunuchs and ministers were ordered to do things and make money at that time.
"Apocalypse Tongbao" small flat money not only has many back words, but also other things such as the size of the characters, the level of the text, the width of the wheel, and the structure of the money is also very complex and changeable. "Apocalypse Tongbao" when ten coins are also divided into two categories: back without text and back with text, folded two coins are mostly back without text, and there are few surviving. Both types of money are rare.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Shouhui, the leader of the Red Turban Army of the Southern Rebel Army, cast "Apocalypse Tongbao Money" in 1358 AD, the texture of the coin is copper, there are three kinds of small flat money, two money, three money, two kinds of money, there are two kinds of regular script and seal book, because only one year has been experienced from the issuance to the cessation of casting, so the Yuan Tianqi Tongbao is relatively rare, especially the seal book folds three days to start the money for the first-class product, for the god product that can be met and can not be sought; There are many kinds of ten coins, and the texture is also brass, but the money and text are all regular script.
Yuan Tianqi money light back, and tomorrow Qi Qian back is colorful, the back words are: day, month, work, household, Zhejiang, Beijing, new and so on, the value of the year has two, ten, eleven two, of course, or the light back is common.
What Zhou Rui has in his hand is the Yuan Seal Book that folds the money for three days, which is a divine product!