Chapter 802: The One-Eyed Terracotta Figurine
"There are so many years in history, and it's normal not to remember them." Seeing that Zhuang Rui was still frowning and pondering, Gu Dingyu said.
"Let me remind you, the Xing Dynasty has been less than four hundred years now."
"Less than four hundred years, that is the Ming and Qing dynasties." Zhuang Rui said to himself: "It's just that in historical records, the era names of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties are not called 'Xing Dynasty'. β
The era name is a name used to chronicle the year, and it can also be used to indicate the year, there was no era name from the pre-Qin to the early Han Dynasty, and the first era name system was created after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, and the first era name in Chinese history was "Jianyuan".
Since then, a system has been formed, and the emperors of the past dynasties have generally changed the era name when they encounter major events such as "auspicious fortune from the sky" or internal strife and external worries, and an emperor has used a few era names to more than a dozen.
Among them, the husband and wife Li Zhi and Wu Zetian have the most era names, Wu Zetian has used 18 era names in just 21 years, and has changed the era name three times a year, which is the most in Chinese history; followed by Wu Zetian's husband Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, who used a total of 14 era names, of which the first "Yonghui" was the most famous.
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 4,000 era names used in Chinese history, and it is obviously impossible and unnecessary to memorize these era names completely.
However, since the Ming Dynasty, the era name is easy to remember, because usually, an emperor has only one era name in his life, the only exception is Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, he is the eldest son of Zhu Zhanji, and later was captured by Wara because of the Tumubao Incident, and after being released, he was placed under house arrest for 7 years, and then re-ascended the throne through a coup d'Γ©tat, because he had two era names, namely Orthodoxy and Tianshun.
"Could it be the era name used by the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty?" Zhuang Rui said.
"Not bad." Huang Chong nodded: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by the Qing army in Shu, and his righteous descendants are expected to succeed the rest of the Great Western Army and enter Yunnan. β
"Cut, how much is the copper coin worth in a place where it is still alive?" Xu Wei said quite hesitantly.
"Huh." Huang Chong smiled and said: "Xiao Xu is really a big mouth, although this Xing Dynasty Tongbao was forged by local armed forces, but he has extraordinary artistic achievements. β
"Artistic achievement?"
"Yes, the most distinctive point of Xing Dynasty Tongbao is that the money is from the hands of craftsmen, which is very different from other dynasties with literati fonts to make money and text, Xing Dynasty Tongbao is ancient and simple, and the literati make words, full of artistic atmosphere, because of this, Xing Dynasty Tongbao created a school of its own style, that is, the so-called 'Dian school coins', its influence is very far-reaching, this style until the Qing Xianfeng, Tongzhi time, can also be seen from the coin, this is also the greatest achievement of Xing Dynasty Tongbao."
"Plus, it's not a copper coin."
"Not copper coins? Could this be another furnace coin? Brother Ma asked.
"It's not the furnace money, it's the mother's money."
"Mother money? What's that? β
"Mother money, to put it bluntly, is a model, mother money is a template for manufacturing and circulating coins, its purpose is to submit to the imperial court, for the emperor to approve, in a strict sense, mother money can not be counted as coins, because it is only used as a physical pattern submitted for approval, can not be circulated, the quantity itself is relatively rare." Huang Chong pointed to the Xing Dynasty Tongbao in Zhuang Rui's hand and said: "In addition, the four words 'Xing Dynasty Tongbao' on this mother coin are not cast, but carved. β
"Xing Dynasty Tongbao has not been recorded in some popular annals, I also saw it in Uncle De's collection of books, and Xing Dynasty Tongbao has only been minted for less than two years, so this mother money is definitely a very precious thing."
"That must be worth a lot of money." Well, the only one who can say this can only be Brother Ma.
"Not only that, the real preciousness of this mother coin lies in the words on it, you carefully put on the word 'Xing', is it different from the way it is written in the book?" Huang Chong looked at Zhuang Rui and said.
"Really, the mouth of this traditional Chinese character should be below the horizontal, but on the coin, it is above the horizontal, what's going on?" Zhuang Rui took a closer look and asked.
"Fake." Xu Wei muttered quietly.
"This is a catchy version of mother money, which can be met but not sought."
"Is there any difference between the catchy version of the mother money and the ordinary mother money?"
"The Xing Dynasty Tongbao of the Shangkou Xing Dynasty Tongbao is the most famous of all the Xing Dynasty Tongbao, and it is also the most finely workmanship, this version of the copper coin is extremely rare, if it is in good condition, tens of thousands must be no problem, it can be said that it is the most precious copper coin in the Xing Dynasty Tongbao, and the mother money of the Shangkou Xing version, it is naturally even more rare, the circulation of the Xing version, I have seen one at Uncle De's house, as for the mother money, I only know today, it is still alive."
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Well, there is no need to ask about the price of this coin, looking at Huang Chong's appearance, even if he pays more money, he will not sell it, he plans to collect it himself.
"Brother Huang, is it really good for you to catch a sheep like this and kill your wool? Be careful to make him bald, yesterday I bought a furnace money, changed hands for 200,000, and now I have bought a mother money, I'm afraid you won't sell it even if you open 2 million, these two days, the boss has lost 2.2 million. Brother Ma said with a smile.
"I don't want to, it's the boss himself who insists on pulling me to take a look, so what can I do." Huang Chong said with a shrug.
"And it's not his loss, according to his purchase cost, he must have earned." Huang Chong said.
"Yes, the business is actually all about information, and the stall owner is not good at learning his own arts, so he shouldn't make this money." Xu Zhendong said.
"Hmm." Many nodded in agreement.
"Lao Zheng, hurry up and take out your thing, there is a big connoisseur of antiques here, let him judge the authenticity of your thing for you." Zhou Ruisong said.
The "Lao Zheng" in Zhou Ruisong's mouth is the boss of Zheng's Jewelry, in his fifties, but he looks older than Gu Tianfeng and Zhou Ruisong, and he took out a terracotta figurine from his bag.
"This ......"
Seeing the terracotta figurines placed on the table, Huang Chong, Miao Feifei, Zhuang Rui and Gu Tianfeng were all stunned.
Because this terracotta figurine is very special, this terracotta figurine is not tall, about thirty centimeters, the face has no facial features, only a vertical eye, and the most important thing is that this eye looks exactly the same as the jade eye in the pawn shop at the beginning, the only difference is that it has shrunk.
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