Chapter 412: The Night Pot is a Treasure

"Old man, are you kidding? This is the paper money of the Kuomintang period, you know how precious it is, and now it is estimated that it is very rare. If it weren't for Uncle Guangxi's old house, I guess you wouldn't have seen it. One even gave ten dollars. What are you kidding......" As soon as Old Man Xu finished speaking, Liu Junqi began to shout beside him. Old man Guo is a frequent visitor to Liujiagou, and Liu Junqi did not treat him as an outsider, so he was not polite when he spoke.

"Hehe, Junqi, what school did you graduate from?" Old Man Guo was not annoyed, but asked with a smile.

"Junior High School...... I didn't get in, what's wrong, what does this have to do with my school? Liu Junqi looked at him puzzled.

"No wonder, I guess. Do you know what kind of money this is? Old man Guo patted a few banknotes in his hand and asked, "This is the legal tender of the Kuomintang period, which is in history books and textbooks." ”

"This is fiat?" Liu Junhao suddenly realized. I used to mention it in books when I was in history, but it was the first time I saw the real thing.

"Fiat? Fiat currency is also money. What's wrong? That's 500 yuan, and I can buy dozens of catties of pork now. Liu Junqi didn't know what the old man wanted to express.

"Hehe, it looks like I'm going to give you some numismatic knowledge." Seeing that this person looked like I was illiterate and who I was afraid of, Mr. Guo shook his head helplessly, and then explained in detail, "The Kuomintang implemented the 'fiat currency reform' in 35 years, when it stipulated that the banknotes issued by the central government, China, and the three banks of transportation were legal tender, and at the same time prohibited the circulation of silver dollars in the market, and forced the nationalization of silver.

On the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 37 years, the total amount of legal tender issued was only more than 1 billion yuan, and by the time Little Japan surrendered, the amount of legal tender issued had reached 500 billion yuan. By the fourth and seventh year, the amount of issuance had increased to nearly 20 trillion yuan. In four or eight years, the issuance amount reached 700 billion yuan. How many times can you say that the difference is multiple? ”

Seeing that Liu Junqi was still wrenching his fingers, he opened his mouth to say the answer, "Tell you, the issuance is equal to 500,000 times before the Anti-Japanese War, when prices rose more than 30 million times, and the fiat currency completely collapsed." For the same 100 yuan of fiat currency, you can buy two scalpers in three or seven years, only two eggs in four or five years, and one briquette in four or seven years.

The denomination of 500 yuan of fiat currency is not very large, I have seen denominations of 100,000 and 500,000, what is the maximum denomination of fiat currency issued by the Bank of Xinjiang Province at that time, you can't imagine it......"

Old man Guo said that he had sold a pass here, and Liu Junqi urged: "Old man, how much, tell me quickly."

"Six billion yuan, don't look at the large denomination, you can only buy a box of matches. This kind of 500 yuan fiat currency is everywhere, and I have hundreds of them in my hand, and the quality is better than what you hold. ”

"Feelings used to be waste paper, and it didn't do anything, except for going to the toilet?" Having not experienced that era, it is difficult for Liu Junqi to imagine such a crazy thing.

"Hehe, at that time, in order to save a match, people used fiat currency to light cigarettes."

"Then you said that these five fiat currencies are only worth a hundred dollars?" Even now, a few young people are still a little incredulous, they have just thought that they have dug up a treasure.

"I have to find a buyer for a hundred yuan, anyway, I don't want it, I have a lot of this kind of fiat currency, and the product is better than this. You can keep it for yourself and keep it at home as a curiose. Old man Guo suggested.

"Forget it, let's keep it for Uncle Guangxi as a souvenir, I want this thing useless." Liu Junqi pouted, now ten or twenty yuan really can't see the present.

"Let's get one per person, just for your salary today," Er Mazi also joked. He is quite lost now, mainly because the ideal is too different from reality. I thought I had dug up a golden doll, but who knew that there would be a joy in the air.

"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 cardboard box.

"It's a box with fiat currency, like a cigarette box." Liu Junhao explained. The cigarette case is relatively old, and it is the first time he has heard of this brand of cigarettes.

"It's something of value, and if you find the right person, you can give you at least eight hundred dollars." Guo Zhenhua said with a little excitement.

"Old man, are you talking nonsense, can this rotten cigarette box be worth hundreds of dollars?" As soon as he heard him, the crowd of onlookers was dumbfounded again.

It's the first time they've heard that money isn't worth much, and a waste paper cigarette box is worth it.

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Mr. Guo explained, "You don't understand this, some people specialize in collecting cigarette labels, which are empty cigarette boxes that we have smoked." This cigarette box is the "Winning" cigarette label with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War during the Republic of China, and there are very few that can be preserved now. ”

"Really...... Lao Guo, can you find me a buyer? As soon as he heard that this broken cigarette box was valuable, Er Mazi still couldn't believe it, and asked anxiously. He wanted to sell this thing as soon as possible, so that he could feel at ease when the money was in his hands.

"No problem, if you want to sell it, I can help you contact the buyer now, a friend of mine specializes in collecting cigarette labels." Old man Guo is a warm-hearted person, and as he spoke, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

As soon as he made a phone call, the crowd was talking again. I didn't expect things to turn around, and the house of Er Mazi was too right.

"Okay, I'll keep this cigarette label for him first, and I'll give you the money when I go back later." Old man Guo said after making a phone call.

"Lao Guo, don't be in a hurry to leave. Look at the value of these copper coins in me, it is the ...... I dug up when I was digging for river stones in the township, Liu Laosan has already taken a few copper coins from home.

"Oh, the Great Qing Dynasty copper coin with the original light center E Shiwen, this is worth fifty yuan. A few Qianlong Tongbao are not worth much, and one is worth two yuan at most. "Mr. Guo is also idle, so he will do an appraisal for everyone free of charge on the spot.

"And these coins, I heard Junqi say just now that they are also valuable, do you see if they are useful?" Liu Laosan said and took out a few cents from his pocket.

"Your cents are very ordinary, they are worthless, so let's take them home and pack them up." After Lao Guo saw it, he shook his head with a smile.

"Isn't it, didn't you say that a penny can be sold for more than a thousand dollars now?" Liu Laosan asked unwillingly.

"Hehe, the coin depends on the year. The valuable ones are the 'Five Heavenly Kings'. Five-cent coins for seventy-nine, eighty-one, and eighty-one years, as well as two-cent coins for eighty-year, and one-cent coins for eighty-one years. Two years ago, the 'Five Heavenly Kings' were less than 2,000 yuan per set, and now they have soared to more than 5,000 yuan. Coins from other years are worthless," Lao Guo saw that everyone listened very carefully, so he patiently explained.

"Oh, then I'll go home and look for it, and I think I have a lot of coins in my house." Hearing that a set of coins was worth thousands of yuan, Liu Guangju couldn't bear it anymore and was ready to turn around and go home.

"Don't go back and look for it, you won't find it." Lao Guo opened his mouth to stop, "The scarce hard cent coins basically will not enter the domestic market and will only be sold to foreign tourists as tourist souvenirs, which will naturally cause the price to be expensive." It's rare for you to have a family......"

"Guo Ye, what do you think of my copper coins?" Before he could finish explaining, Liu Qiyong also came over with a few copper coins.

"This is not worth much, this is not worth much" Old Man Guo scratched his finger on the coin, and suddenly glared, "This is not a copper coin, it is a silver coin, made in the year of Xuantong, and it is worth a thousand pieces." But your condition is too poor, how can you be dirty like this? ”

"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 take copper coins and put them on kerosene lamps to roast and play, and both sides of the coins were full of black smoke, no wonder Guo Zhenhua didn't see it at first sight.

Three people were identified in a row, and the atmosphere was completely set off, and the villagers of Liujiagou went home one after another to get copper money and paper money for Mr. Guo to do the identification. The most outrageous thing is Liu Wuye, who directly used a snakeskin bag to carry a small half bag of copper coins.

A tourist next to him was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but pull Liu Junhao and asked, "I said Xiaohao, how can there be so many people in your village who have copper coins?" ”

"Hehe, it's normal, it's all picked up from the ground." Liu Junhao didn't lie to him about this, he often picked up copper coins and other things when he farmed in the countryside, which family didn't have a few copper coins to be abnormal. There are also a few strings of copper coins in his house, but they have already been checked on the Internet, and they are not worth anything at all, so they don't plan to use them to embarrass people. People who have not lived in the countryside can imagine such a thing, and one of the main sources of copper coins in the fields is ancient funerary goods, which are likely to be turned over again when people plough the land as the graves fade over time. In addition, the Baitiao River near Liujiagou was a wharf in ancient times, and commercial exchanges 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 in his house, and last time he checked that Qianlong Tongbao was worthless, and he didn't bother to find it in the future. Now that Old Man Guo is sitting here, why don't you take this opportunity to let him appraise it.

When he got home and turned over the rotten bamboo basket and took it to the outside of the hospital, a pungent smell suddenly came to his nose, and there were many insect corpses inside, and he was disgusted to see.

"It's worthless," Guo Zhenhua shook his head like he looked at Liu Junhao's copper coins.

……

In recent years, archaeology has been hot, and many people like to watch archaeological programs on TV. There are many people who get rich overnight on TV, and after Mr. Guo opened the introduction, there were more and more people on the scene.

In the end, Liu Guangju really found a porcelain vase at home, which was identified as the Republic of China period and was worth 5,000 yuan. On the spot, some tourists offered to buy it, but Liu Guangju didn't plan to sell it and was going to be a family heirloom.

Zhao Guangming didn't know where he heard that someone in Liujiagou identified cultural relics for everyone for free, and after he called Liu Junhao, he also packed up two things from home and ran over.

"Old man, look at what this thing is, I dug it out of the ground. There are old characters engraved on it, which are different from our simplified characters...... "Zhao Guangming sent the rotten bronze ware in his hand to Guo Zhenhua like a treasure."

"This ...... Flutter," Old Man Guo laughed as soon as he took his hand, "This is the copper night pot used by the old people in the past, worth dozens of yuan, it is after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the handwriting in the patina is produced by the xx factory." ”