"Tang Xiaoyou, this 1916 Yuan Shikai gold coin like the Hongxian Era of the Chinese Empire, I bought it at the Guardian Auction House in 2008, when the hammer price was 2.46 million, and now ten years have passed, according to the market valuation of this gold coin, I can accept my bid of 4 million?"

"Thanks to Kong Lao, I can accept this price."

"Since you accept it, then this gold coin will be put aside, and then it will be a tael of red copper sample coins made by Guangxu Ding in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, this gold coin has only 5 in existence, and I have 2 in my hand, your one was auctioned by me in 2006 at Poly Auction House, when the hammer price was 2.09 million, and now if you like it, take it for 3 million."

"The price is acceptable, thanks to Kong Lao."

……

Five gold coins, Kong Tingshan quoted one after another.

In the past half a month, Tang Yuan asked people to find out all the coin materials that have been hammered by major auction houses with a price of more than one million in the past 20 years, and read them all carefully.

As for the price trend of the coin collection market, Tang Yuan still has a bottom in his heart, so as long as the quotation given by Kong Tingshan is not too outrageous and is within a reasonable range, Tang Yuan will not refuse to come.

At this moment, Lin Xingwan, who was sitting beside Tang Yuan, was already stunned, when she was observing these gold coins just now, although she guessed that the value of these gold coins would be very high, she never expected that the value of these gold coins would be so outrageous.

One gold coin worth 4 million!

It seems that since Tang Yuan and Kong Tingshan began to negotiate prices, no gold coin has been priced below two million, and when Tang Yuan faced these gold coins that were often quoted for millions, he didn't even frown, and directly accepted them all.

"A total of five gold coins worth a total of 13.5 million."

Tang Yuan looked at Kong Tingshan and said with a smile: "Old Kong, let's take a look at other treasures, and I will settle the money later." ”

"Since you want to see it, let's take a look at the others."

After Kong Tingshan finished speaking, he took the tray and put the gold coins other than the five gold coins selected by Tang Yuan into the safe again, and then he opened a safe again and took out many coins from it, the number was more than the last time, there were nearly a hundred.

Last time it was gold, this time it was silver.

These silver coins are basically silver coins from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and many of them are pattern coins, which have greatly increased their value because of their small survival, exquisite casting technology, and far-reaching historical significance.

According to the habit just now, Tang Yuan is still picking while watching.

Because of the large number this time, Tang Yuan probably spent nearly fifty minutes looking through all the hundreds of silver coins, and finally picked out the twelve silver coins he liked better.

Then Tang Yuan and Kong Tingshan repeated the process just now, Kong Tingshan first took three non-sale items from the twelve silver coins, and then he quoted the remaining nine silver coins one after another.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen was like a semi-circular silver coin, worth 2.7 million; In 1912, the "Founding Commemoration" silver coin on both sides of the statue of Li Yuanhong was trial-minted with a sample value, worth 2.2 million; Xuantong three years of the Qing Dynasty silver coin long bearded dragon one yuan pattern, worth 2.1 million; In 1926, in the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin was like a generalissimo of the army and navy, and the commemorative coin was a silver coin worth 1.9 million yuan......

A total of nine silver coins with a total value of 19.8 million.

So far, Tang Yuan counted the gold coins, and won a total of 14 coins, taking the lead in filling the first gap.

After Kong Tingshan put the remaining silver coins back into the safe again, Tang Yuan's eyes revealed a little expectation, and asked tentatively, "Old Kong, do you have any harder hard goods here?" ”

"How?"

"Now these coins of quality can no longer satisfy Tang Xiaoyou?"

When Kong Tingshan heard this, he joked with a smile.

Tang Yuan rubbed his hands and said sincerely: "Old Kong, I have heard for a long time that you are a master in the field of coin collection, and it is rare for the younger generation to visit you once, and I really want to open my eyes again." ”

"Okay......"

"Since you've said so, I'll show you it."

"If this is my private collection, then the coins I'm going to show you next are enough to be called the treasures of the museum."

Kong Tingshan turned around and walked towards the safe in the center of the wall of this room, and when Tang Yuan came in just now, he found that there were six safes in this room, and the other five safes were all exactly the same style, only this safe was different.

Obviously, this safe is more secure than the other five.

Two minutes later, Kong Tingshan walked back with the tray again, only to see ten coins spread flat on the tray, each coin was covered with a special material protective case, which looked extraordinary.

"Shh......h

"It took me most of my life to collect these ten coins of this level, and I didn't easily let ordinary people come to me."

After walking several times in a row, for Kong Tingshan, an old man who was nearly eighty years old, the consumption was still a bit large, he sat down on the sofa again, pointed to the ten coins, and said to Tang Yuan.

In fact, just as Kong Tingshan put the tray back on the table, it was difficult for him to take his eyes off the ten coins since his gaze fell on the ten coins.

"It's ......"

"The legendary Fengtian one or two?!"

Tang Yuan cautiously picked up a silver coin, his voice containing a hint of shock.

"Tang Xiaoyou knows about Fengtian?"

Kong Tingshan couldn't help but smile even more when he saw Tang Yuan's words reveal his origin.

"Of course I do."

Tang Yuan stared at the silver coin in front of him tightly: "Fengtian one or two, known as the first of the four heavenly kings of Chinese silver coins, because the number of surviving is extremely rare, it was known as a legendary coin in the Republic of China, which can be described as rare in the world, I didn't expect Kong Lao You actually collected one." ”

"It's not easy to collect this silver coin."

A flash of remembrance flashed in Kong Tingshan's eyes, and his voice was filled with a bit of emotion and remembrance, obviously the process of collecting this silver coin should have some story.

Tang Yuan didn't say anything more, because his attention was now on the legendary silver coin in front of him.

Fengtian one tael, just the common name of this silver coin, its real full name is Fengtian Province to make the Guangxu Yuan treasure house flat silver one tael, is the product of the famous "two yuan dispute" in the history of modern Chinese currency.

In the 29th year of Guangxu, because of the shortage of currency in the Fengtian market, the Fengtian authorities renamed the Fengtian Mint as the Fengtian Silver Dollar General Bureau, and opened the minting of silver and copper dollars by the emperor's order, and reformulated a set of discipline units, no longer using yuan, jiao, and division into discipline units, but taking Kuping two, money, cents, and cents as the discipline units.

However, after the issuance of the Fengtian tael, it soon became unstable due to the inconvenience of conversion, and there was also a debate within the imperial court about the issue of the silver dollar unit, and finally the Qing government took into account the habit and use, and promulgated the "Rules for Determining the National Currency", officially determining the national currency unit as "yuan".

At this point, the Fengtian one or two that had just been circulated became a masterpiece in a blink of an eye.

(End of chapter)