"Alas! You have a good study, and you look like you're doing a scholar. ”

Mu Duanming followed Chang Xian into the study, and his eyes lit up.

"Hey! I'm just messing around, how dare I say what to learn! ”

Chang smiled and opened the bag that had been dug out of the ruins, and there was a set of silver coins inside.

"Hehe, Yuan Datou!"

Mu Duanming picked up a piece of silver coin and said with a smile: "This thing is not worth a few dollars!" ”

Yuan Datou was the temporary president of Yuan Shikai during the Republic of China. After the unification, the silver coins minted were in circulation, and the circulation was very large.

Yuan Shikai, who was emperor for 83 days alone, issued 750 million pieces of Yuan Datou alone.

Yuan Datou's survival must be in the hundreds of millions, and everything is scarce and expensive, so Mu Duanming said that Yuan Datou is not worth anything.

Chang Xian nodded and said, "I often saw it when I was a child, and many people have it at home. Back then, many people, in order to pursue popularity, would take Yuan Datou to the master in the gold and silver shop on the street to melt Yuan Datou and then make a ring. ”

Mu Duanming smiled: "After all, it's silver, and now it's up, ten yuan in the eighties, fifty yuan in the nineties, and now it costs five hundred yuan to play this." ”

Chang Xian knew that this was right, he wondered how Yuan Datou could be sensed by the spiritual sense.

He has now felt the pattern, and he can be sensed by his spiritual sense, at least he has to be more than 8,000 objects.

"Yuan Datou's thing is not difficult to identify, just look at the two and listen to the sound."

Mu Duanming took the silver coin in his hand a few times, then took a closer look, picked up another piece and lightly hit it in his hand a few times, the voice was long and clear, and the tail note was crisp.

……

"Brother, you opened my eyes!"

Mu Duanming exhaled and said: "There are no absolutes in everything, Yuan Datou is not valuable, but not all Yuan Datou is not valuable!" You're worth a lot of money! Take a closer look, this is the signed version of the three-year Republic of China with a seven-point face Yuan Datou! ”

He said heavily: "Suit! I've seen the signed version of Yuan Datou, but I have never seen a well-preserved and perfect signed version of the Yuan Datou set! ”

Chang Xian looked at these Yuan Datou carefully according to Mu Duanming's statement and found some clues.

This is a complete set of Yuan Datou.

The top is two Yuan Datou one-yuan versions placed on the front and back, and the bottom is two Zhongyuan versions placed on the front and back, and the two corners placed on the front and back are placed on the bottom two, then a corner, and finally five points.

This set of Yuan Datou suits can be regarded as an eye-opener for Chang Xian, because the Yuan Datou he has seen before is a one-yuan version, and the Zhongyuan is also a five-cornered one-corner, as well as those two-cornered, one-cornered, and five-point Yuan Datou, he has seen it for the first time.

Look at the year written on this set of Yuan Datou, it is written that the Republic of China is three years.

What's even more strange is that the Yuan Shikai on the front of the coin is very different from the common Yuan Shikai, and it is like two people.

The Yuan Shikai at hand is not a profile portrait, but a diagonal face with a seven- or eight-point face, and his appearance is thin, much more handsome than the common version with a fat head and big ears.

Not only that, but the words "L.GIORGI" are engraved on the outside of the shoulders of the figure.

Mu Duanming said slowly: "The government of the Republic of China rectified the currency system in the third year of the Republic of China and established a monetary system of the silver standard. ”

"Yuan Shikai ordered the Jinmen Mint to prepare and mint new silver coins to replace the Guangxu ingots, Qing silver coins, founding commemorative coins and other silver coins that were still in circulation in the market."

"This set of patterns was designed and engraved by Lu Qiaoqi, the chief engraver of the Jinmen Mint at the time, because he had not seen Yuan Shikai himself, and carved the first set of patterns based on photographs alone, and minted a small number of patterns."

When he went to the capital to meet Yuan Shikai, he found that the set of molds was very different from the real person, and then redesigned, and was not used in this version, so it was called "seven-point face" or "seven-point face", this set of patterns has not been in circulation, and the number is very rare. ”

"There are four types of patterns, gold and silver, signed and unsigned, and the prices vary widely."

"Baldwin sold a beautiful three-year Republic of China seven-cent face signed Yuan Datou at this year's Hong Kong summer auction for $11,500, which is about 70,000 yuan."

"This set of silver coins is oxidized in its original flavor, uniform in color, clear in portrait and mouth, and in better condition than the one in Hong Kong, and the price is even higher."

Chang Xian looked at Yuan Datou one by one, Mu Duanming flipped through the more than 20 paintings of Peking Opera masters, closed his eyes and thought for a while, "Xiao Chang, you have these things well, I can set up a freight yard for you." ”

What is a cargo yard?

There are insiders and laymen in any trade.

Some laymen don't have anything in their stomachs, but they like to be self-righteous, and they do a lot of things that can't be laughed or laughed at, and they break the rules and make people unable to get off the stage.

It's like a presumptuous master, if you don't say that the rocket is lit with split wood, what can a rocket expert do?

Let's put it this way, the rocket experts look at him and count him as a loser.

The people in the antique shop are divided into old and new, and there are especially many laymen who have a half-bottle of vinegar, and those old players and customers are naturally reluctant to mix with a group of mallets to compete for things.

Therefore, the powerful big shops have their own internal trade fairs, if they get any serious things, keep it secret, and secretly tell some old customers to let them bid secretly, which is the so-called "selling goods and knowing the family".

This kind of trade fair is called a freight yard.

The yard is not just anything that can be opened, you must know that the participants are all old birds in the industry, if it is a general two-like thing, not only will not show its face, but also show its butt.

……

Mu Duanming walked to the living room, pointed to the yellow pear official hat chair, the Venus red sandalwood plaque, and the mahogany Zen chair, and then pointed to the purple sand flower pot and said: "These few things, it takes a few days to make up the wood in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, what do you mean?" ”

Mu Duanming's selection of these things is exquisite.

Mi Xiangyang paints landscapes, Tang Bohu paints beauties, each has its own ability, and no one can be an all-rounder.

The several categories of the collection are all broad and profound, and they are all collections, but almost all players have a focus, just like Wu Hufan reading calligraphy and painting, Sun Yingzhou collecting porcelain, and Wang Shixiang playing with wood.

If you step the wrong way, you will make a joke.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the largest collector in China is Xiang Yuanbian, and the biggest joke in the antique shop is also on this master.

Don't tell me about Qianlong or anything, let's not raise the bar.

Xiang Yuanbian's Tianlai Pavilion, how do you say it?

The collection of calligraphy and painting is about half of that of the Palace Museum.

The treasures of Chinese calligraphy and painting in many museums around the world come from him.

Xiang Yuanbian is good at painting and calligraphy appraisal, and some people say that he has supported half of China's art history and calligraphy history.