Chapter 4 Wrong Coins

Probably because of the brilliance of the hero, or because Ou Zhou was born with a great shore and elegance, handsome and free.

When it was dark, when he returned to the door of the community unit, he met the aunt next door and the eight-year-old girl, who was born with a cute Yuxue and a lively and interesting temperament.

The little girl was obsessed for a long time after seeing Ou Zhou, and suddenly said amazingly: "Mom, I will marry such a beautiful brother when I grow up." ”

Her mother immediately blushed, slapped the child on the head, and scolded: "No shame, I'm only eight years old, I just want this." ”

Ou Zhou didn't expect the little girl to be so innocent, at first glance, she couldn't help but feel very funny.

At dinner in the evening, Ou Zhou told his parents about the interesting scene.

Yun Lei laughed so hard that she almost squirted out a mouthful of rice: "What a reincarnation of a love species." ”

Ou Yiran said: "The little girl is innocent, this is called true feelings. ”

After dinner, Ou Zhou went to the study to do his homework as usual.

Soon, Ou Yiran went in with a binary note that had been withdrawn from circulation, and asked his son to see how strange the coin was.

Ou Zhou put down his homework, took the coin and looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass according to his father's instructions, rubbed his eyes as if he didn't believe it, held the magnifying glass and looked at it again, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, first giggling, and gradually evolved into a hilarious laugh, tears laughed out, and he couldn't stop laughing.

He couldn't stop shouting: "This is too weird, if you don't see it with your own eyes, I won't believe it." ”

"Hmph, your mother just doesn't believe it?"

"Really?" Ou Zhou stopped laughing, wiped his tears with the back of his hand, took the banknote and magnifying glass and went to the living room: "Mom, don't believe it, it's really weird, this kind of mistake can also happen?" ”

The excitement on her son's face and the old-fashioned words finally diverted Yun Lei's attention, she threw away the remote control in her hand and said with a smile: "Really, show it to me." ”

"Mom, look, here, the cross in the upper south part is missing half a horizontal?" The son is like a teacher in charge, instructing.

"Huh, how is that possible?" Yun Lei took a closer look, her eyes suddenly lit up, and her face flushed.

But she still got up and went to the incandescent lamp in the restaurant, took a magnifying glass and looked at it again, and suddenly burst out with a foul word: "This is fucking too funny!"

Ou Zhou had never heard his mother say such a sentence, and couldn't help laughing: "Mom, you are too vulgar." ”

Yun Lei was in an extreme excitement, and didn't realize that she had said something wrong, and said happily: "Son, what's wrong with me?" ”

"What did you just say?" Ou Zhou asked happily.

"I guess that's too funny."

"What, Mom, I'm really convinced of you."

"What did you take me?" Yun Lei looked ignorant.

Ou Zhou's mouth pursed: "You said it was so fucking funny." ”

"Really?" Yun Lei was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she laughed at the dining table for a long time before explaining: "It's the first time my mother has seen such an interesting phenomenon, and I can't help but say something unintentionally!" ”

Ou Yiran smiled: "This can be regarded as an alternative kind of innocence." ”

Ou Zhou sighed: "It's in response to that sentence, strange things happen every year, how many this year!" ”

Yun Lei laughed unbridled again, only to laugh so hard that the pear blossoms trembled.

After laughing, Fang reflected the careful side of women, and said: "We have two pieces of this kind of money, let's see what the situation is with the other one?" ”

"yes, how did I forget?" Ou Yiran picked up the other one, took the magnifying glass in his wife's hand and looked at it carefully, and shook his head: "This one is fine." ”

My son took it and looked at it, and there was really nothing abnormal.

Yun Lei had forgotten about her TV series at the moment, and took it from her son and watched it for a while, and the result was the same.

She put the two banknotes on the dining table and flipped through them and compared them for a long time, then found the difference, and said calmly: "The difference between the two coins is that they are not a serial number, which means that they are not a batch of products." It would be nice to be able to find a comparison of coins from the same batch. ”

Ou Yiran also thought of this question, and said: "This is easy to do, go to the coin market tomorrow to look for it, and it is estimated that you can find the same serial number." ”

"Supposedly, it's not just one that happens in this situation, and if it's the same batch, it's not worth much." Yun Lei began to use her careful thinking to the advantage.

"The first thing to determine is that this situation is a problem with the design plate, or is it a matter of accidental technical factors in the printing process? If it's a problem with design plate making, it's going to be too many to count. ”

"That won't be." Yun Lei said, "The design and plate making will be reviewed repeatedly, so obvious typos can be identified by a primary school student." ”

"If the design and plate-making links are excluded, then only the technical factors of printing remain."

"In other words, if it is caused by accidental technical factors, then the number of such errors should be very small."

"Yes, the probability should be very low."

"The central bank was recycling the four sets of coins more than ten years ago, only entering and not leaving, and the possibility of finding them in the world is very small."

"That's not necessarily, after all, it's a coin market in a provincial capital, and the scale is so large, what kind of coins can't be found?"

"That's right." Yun Lei nodded, "The half of the horizontal character that is missing in the south may be that the printing plate was covered by something, or it was accidentally rubbed off when the ink was not dry." ”

Ou Yiran admired his wife's ability to explore the subtleties, nodded frequently when he listened, and said with a smile: "It's all possible." ”

Ou Zhou never intervened, just looked at the coin over and over, and at this moment he seemed to remember something, and suddenly took a picture of the coin with his mobile phone and the light.

After a while, Le said: "Mom's analysis seems to have some truth, you look at the enlarged image on the photo, there are faint shadows in the missing parts?" ”

Ou Yiran took it and looked at it, and sure enough, there was a faint shadow in the missing half-horizontal position.

Yun Lei looked at it: "It seems that it is caused by accidental technical factors. ”

"Then there won't be many of them."

"According to the probability theory of printing, when a chance factor occurs, the probability of its continuity is only one in a million.

If 100 million copies of this serial number were printed, there would be up to 100 copies of this error, and it would be very few to leave the market today, excluding the continuous recycling of banks for more than a decade. ”

"You might as well take a look at Baidu and see how many coins have been printed for this serial number." Ou Zhou suggested.

The answer was soon available, 200 million. That is, theoretically there are no more than two hundred coins with such an error.

Further online research shows that there are 134 serial numbers of this two-dollar coin, which means that 26.8 billion copies of all serial numbers were printed, excluding supplementary numbers.

Ou Zhou suggested again: "We might as well search and see if we have found this kind of coin with missing strokes on the Internet?" As he spoke, he typed a few words on his mobile phone: The 90 version of the two-yuan coin lacks strokes. No result.

I typed again: The two-dollar coin is short of strokes. Still inconclusive.

Ou Yiran and Yun Lei glanced at each other and said with a smile: "Since Baidu has no results, that means that there is no such coin with missing strokes in the market so far." ”

"Dad, we can post this strange coin on the Internet. Let netizens comment and appreciate it. ”

"Well, that's a good idea."

"yes, let's see how netizens reacted?" Yun Lei agreed.

Ou Zhou blinked his eyes and suddenly thought, "Is it possible that it is counterfeit money?" ”

"Why, don't forget that your dad got it back from the bank."

"This is easy to do, tomorrow I will take it to the bank and pass the money counter, and it will be clear."

"It's a big deal. Besides, can the banknote counter recognize four sets of coins? Yun Lei said, "Okay son, you better go back to your place." ”

Ou Zhou tilted his head and blinked, and went back to the study.

On Monday afternoon, Ou Yiran made a special trip to the West Tower Coin Market and asked from house to house if there were any two yuan coins with the same serial number.

Although he was the first to get involved in this field, he pointed out the currency period, face value and serial number he was looking for, so that those shopkeepers did not dare to underestimate him.

And he didn't ask much and said more, just followed the store's questions to deal with it.

Some shopkeepers thought he was trying to get a crown set, so he nodded and smiled and said yes, and the shopkeeper would rummage through the counters for a while and tell him no.

There were also other shopkeepers who were receiving other customers, and when they heard his need, they said no indifferently, and he didn't care, and turned around and went to another one.

However, more than two hours passed, and dozens of stores specializing in coin trading were walked through one by one, and not a single coin with the same serial number was found.

As the sun set approached the mountains, some shops began to close as the sun moved from the ground to the third floor.

At this moment, Ou Yiran came to the door of the last store, the store had already packed everything, and was about to turn off the lights, Ou Yiran went in, sighed and said: "Such a large coin market, how can you not even find a banknote with the same serial number?" ”

The shopkeeper looked shrewd, about forty years old, and said with a smile, "What kind of coins are you looking for?" ”

Ou Yiran showed him the banknote.

The shopkeeper looked quite self-contained, smiled and said, "Let me look for it." ”

Ou Yiran said: "Very good, thank you." ”

The shopkeeper took out a wad of related coins from the counter, put them on the counter and searched them one by one, no, put them in, and took out another wad of them.

Ou Yiran's heart followed the ebb and flow of the shopkeeper's behavior.

"Oh, I found one, the RJ serial number." The shopkeeper handed it to him.

Ou Yiran was happy in his heart, followed by a worry, and before he could take a closer look, the shopkeeper found another one. Ou Yiran caught it and asked, "Is there a magnifying glass?" ”

The shopkeeper turned to the counter opposite, took out a magnifying glass and handed it to Ou Yiran.

Ou Yiran raised his throat in his heart, and carefully examined the boulder on the back of the coin with a magnifying glass against the light, and the font was completely normal.

When he picked up the other one and looked at it closely, it was still normal.

His heart fell to his stomach. His face was full of smiles: "I have been looking for many stores for half an afternoon, but I was stunned, I knew that I would have come to you, so I didn't have to run those unjust roads." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "Actually, I don't know if I have it here, and if I can find it, it means that you are lucky." ”

"Well, how much do you sell these two?"

"Give me thirty dollars."

Ou Yiran was overjoyed, and still said in his mouth: "It's just that the quality is a little different." ”

The shopkeeper said, "If you want to be in good condition, you need 50 yuan." ”

Ou Yiran has been around for most of the afternoon, and he already has a general understanding of the market of this kind of banknotes, and understands that he is talking about the real price. So the bill was paid.

The store was so excited that the door was not closed, and asked, "Do you want to collect it?" ”

Ou Yiran was happy in his heart, and when he saw that the store was honest, he told him what he meant, and showed the coin to the store.

After seeing it, the shopkeeper said with a smile: "I often hear that there is a wrong coin, but I have never seen it, but today is an eye-opener." Collect it well, it's not easy for this thing to come across one, you have to talk about fate. ”

Ou Yiran smiled: "Who says it's not." ”

"How did you find out?"

"It can be said that it was very accidental."

"Four sets of coins have been out of circulation for more than ten years, where did you get them?"

Ou Yiran saw that the shopkeeper was full of interest, and felt that he was straightforward and honest, so he told the cause and effect.

The shopkeeper sighed: "Look at the condition of this coin, I don't know how many people have passed it, and how many banks have entered and exited." The fact that it finally falls into your hands shows how deep your blessings are. ”

"Thank you for your good words. But this note has been sitting at home for ten years! ”

"This thing is the same as an antique, the more time it gets, the more valuable it becomes. The situation is different if it is discovered before it is withdrawn from circulation. ”

Ou Yiran smiled and asked, "Why?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "People will probably think it's counterfeit money. ”

"That's interesting, so why wouldn't it be considered a counterfeit now?"

"Simply put, what is the point of counterfeiting a currency that has long been withdrawn from circulation!"

Ou Yiran nodded and said with a smile: "The logic is correct." ”

Seeing that there was no movement in the corridor anymore, he knew that it was time to leave, so he said goodbye: "Then let's talk another day, it's a little late today." ”

"It's okay, you opened my eyes today. If you don't mind, can you enjoy the light and have a meal together? The store invited.

Ou Yiran suddenly felt funny, and said with a smile: "It seems that we are really destined, in fact, I originally had this intention, but I didn't say it because I felt abrupt." It's better to do this, I'll invite you today. ”

The shopkeeper smiled heartily: "It's okay," took out one from the business card case, and offered it with both hands: "This is my business card." ”

Ou Yiran took it and took a look, the store's surname is Ya, and the single name is a quantity. I couldn't help laughing: "If the surname is good, the name is better." Elegant, graceful, elegant and measured. ”

Immediately said his name to the other party.

Yaliang smiled and said, "When we meet, we laugh and feel comfortable." It seems that you are as good as your name, you are really free and easy. ”

The two laughed, clasped their hands tightly together, patted each other's shoulders, and hated each other. So they each called home to explain the situation.

Yaliang turned off the lights and locked the store, and the two went downstairs and went out of the east gate.

At the suggestion of the store, I went to the nearby Delong Building and asked for a small private room on the second floor to sit down.

The waitress handed over the menu, Ou Yiran took it and handed it to Yaliang, Yaliang was not polite, ordered a green beef tenderloin, a cordyceps black chicken soup, and pushed the menu to Ou Yiran, who added two more dishes, a steamed osmanthus fish, and a green bean corn. When he was done, he asked Yaliang, "Shall we have a drink at the white bar?" ”

Masashi said casually. Ou Yiran asked for a bottle of Fenjiu and a pot of Biluo spring tea. Luckily, neither of them smokes.

Taking advantage of the gap before the tea was served, Yaliang asked, "What kind of profession is Brother Tai engaged in?" ”

Ou Yiran said with a smile: "Since I quit my job, now I am a troika at the same time, researching certificates, stocks, and playing with some ancient coins." The so-called East is not bright and the West is bright, and one or two items have benefited, but the ancient coins have only entered and not been able to enter so far. ”

"Oh, it's free, it's free, it's so good. As for the ancient coins, they need a process of calm accumulation, and the so-called wealth is not in a hurry. Now it's just your wrong coin, but it's a treasure that many people can't dream of! ”

Ou Yiran smiled: "It can be regarded as a loss and a compensation." ”

Yaliang nodded: "Which direction of certificate are you taking?" ”

"When I was in the unit, I was in charge of infrastructure, so I naturally gave full play to my strengths, architecture."

"Oh, what age are your ancient coins?"

"From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Republic of China, there have been all dynasties."

"Oh, is it a lot?"

"There are five or six hundred, most of which I saved up as children."

Yaliang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "The way to collect is not much, but fine." If there are a few treasures inside, it is not worth it. ”

"There are indeed a few that are quite peculiar, and you can't find the same shape on Baidu pictures."

As he spoke, the tea came. Just drank two sips of tea, and the topic of the two had just tasted, and the dishes were ready.

The two of them were eating the dishes, and in the process of pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Ou Yiran smiled and said: "It's really funny, the original stone lettering is perfect, how did it change when it came to the coin, it's really incomprehensible?" ”

As he spoke, he clicked on the mobile phone "Nantian One Pillar", found the boulder, enlarged the picture, and handed it to Yaliang to see. Later, he showed him an enlarged picture of the coin.

After careful comparison, Yaliang couldn't help laughing: "This is definitely because some people want to show off calligraphy, but they don't expect it to be written as individual characters. The pillars of the pillars were written as crutches. ”

Ou Yiran smiled: "I think so too."

Yaliang took a sip of the teacup and said, "It's sad that the subordinates actually turned a blind eye to it, knowing that there was a mistake, but they didn't point it out. It's really the world that is declining, which is enough to make Cangjie hateful, and the two kings are ashamed! ”

Ou Yiran nodded, admiring the other party's profound insights and rich historical knowledge.

Cangjie was a figure from the Yellow Emperor period and the creator of Chinese characters.

As for the two kings, they are the book saint Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xian.

He took a sip of tea and briefly stated his opinion: "Such an obvious mistake, may it not be sloppy." Taking a step back, if you copy the original stone calligraphy, why would you make such a big joke! As he spoke, he filled Yaliang with wine.

Elegant and bold, the two of them raised their glasses and touched them, and they dried them up. Pick up the wine dispenser in front of him and fill it up for Ou Yiran. The two of them touched another glass and ate a few bites of food.

"I have long heard that the "pillar" of "Nantian One Pillar" on the 90 edition of the two yuan coins is a separate character, but I have never remembered to check the picture of the original stone. It's no wonder that this version of the coin began to be recycled soon after it went into circulation, and it must have been noticed that this error was the last resort. ”

"Yes, since ancient times, it has been "wood" as a pillar, how can "one hand" be a "pillar", can one hand cover the sky, ridiculous. ”

"As for the semi-horizontal absence of the cross on the 'south', it is understandable that it was caused by an accident."

"Yes, accidents are inevitable in any field. At best, it is a responsibility for lax quality inspection. But the act of going public knowing that it is a single word is simply stupid. ”

"Since ancient times, only state officials are allowed to set fires, and people are not allowed to light lamps. If this kind of mistake appears in the test paper of the high school entrance examination, the difference of one word will definitely make the candidate regret it. But when it appeared in the hands of some people, it was praised as a treasure of calligraphy. ”

"But the eyes of the masses are clear, and a mistake is a mistake."

The two chatted about speculation, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and unconsciously, several dishes were already three out of ten, and a bottle of wine was also worth it.

When Ou Yiran picked up the wine bottle again and poured wine into the wine dispenser, he found that the bottle had bottomed out. He shook the bottle and smiled, "How about another bottle?" ”

Yaliang also seemed to have drunk eight or nine without leaving ten, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, one bottle for two people, no more, no less." I'll spare you today, but I'll ask you another day. ”

Ou Yiran put down the wine bottle, picked up the spoon and handed it over to a bowl of cordyceps soup.

Yaliang said that I would come by myself, so he took the spoon and filled a bowl as well.

Drinking the soup, Yaliang asked, "Your wrong coin, is it a collection or a sale?" ”

"I haven't thought about this yet," Ou Yiran put down the bowl, wiped his mouth with a tissue, thought for a while, and smiled, "Could it be that you are interested in collecting?" ”

Ya Liang drank the soup in the bowl and said, "The so-called scarcity is expensive, and it is difficult to find a coin in the market. If you want to make a move, I can get in touch with you. ”

"Okay, I'll play around for a few days, and I'll let you know as soon as I decide to sell."

"By the way, you haven't told me your contact information yet."

Ou Yiran gave him his mobile phone number. Then he called the waiter to pay the bill and went out of the hotel together.

There was a substitute driver guarding the door who came to talk.

Ou Yiran said the location and invited Yaliang to get in the car with him for a ride.

Yaliang said that his home was not far from here, and he was only a few steps away, so he shook hands and said goodbye.

On weekend afternoons, Ou Zhou asked Jiang Yang to go to the library to do his homework, and when Ou Zhou went out, the gardener in the community was watering the flowers and trees, and several black hoses were winding like black snakes on the felt-like lawn.

Interestingly, there is a sparrow bathing at the intersection, the misty water is like a dream, through the swaying light and shadow looks like a colorful fog, and the sparrow stands on the marble pavement by the grass, let the misty water spray onto the body, shake its wings comfortably, stretch its neck, flick its paws a few times, and look very enjoyable.

Ou Zhou quietly stopped, admiring this interesting picture, and quietly took out his mobile phone to record it.

Unexpectedly, the sparrow suddenly turned its head and glanced at it, and its wings flicked, like a sharp arrow, and rushed obliquely into the sky, and behind it, a string of crystal water droplets were sprinkled.

Ou Zhou entered the reading room at the appointed time, but Jiang Yang had not yet come, so he put down his textbook on the table and went to the oval pool of Taihu Lake stone to admire the fat and colorful koi fish.

In the end, it is the fish raised in the library, contaminated with the smell of countless books, look at the behavior, shaking their heads and tails one by one, as if with the demeanor of a gentleman.

However, the forest is big, there is always an outstanding person, there is a fish with a curved tail in the middle, red head and black spots and white belly, its tail does not form a straight line like other fish, but bends in the middle, like an S shape, the tail fin is born to the right, its body is not as free as other fish, always awkwardly swinging to the left.

Ou Yiran looked interesting, completely unaware that Jiang Yang had come to his side.

The latter's greeting brought him back to his senses, and he was surprised for a moment, and couldn't help laughing.

"This fish is so fat, I wonder if I can eat it?" Jiang Yang said deliberately.

"Senior brother, this is an ornamental fish, how did you think of eating it?" Ou Zhou didn't doubt him, but he felt quite funny.

Jiang Yang said disapprenously: "Since it's a fish, why can't you eat it?"

Ou Zhou made a joke of him: "Colorful mushrooms are poisonous, colorful fish are also poisonous, people come and go in the reading room, they all think like the senior brother, I am afraid that someone will steal it and eat it up." ”

"Haha, I'm just joking." Jiang Yang explained.

Ou Zhou smiled: "But this question is really strange, I have never thought about it like this." ”

"That's because your mind isn't rich enough."

"Oh, so my brother has a lot of thoughts, right?"

"You think so?" Jiang Yang tilted his head and asked.

Ou Zhou looked into his eyes and said with a smile: "If Senior Brother understands it like this, then I will be willing." ”

I hope readers like it, move your rich golden finger, ask for collections, ask for recommendations, thank you.