Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes Chapter 515

Chapter 515 The earliest minted silver dollar

As the sun rises higher and higher, the tourists on Shencheng Antique Street are getting older and more crowded. Those food and snack stalls on the street also exuded tempting aromas one after another. Li Mo smelled it, and then bought a fried stinky tofu with a little chili sauce poured on it.

"Uncle Ge, Yangyang, do you want to try it? It smells bad but tastes delicious."

"I don't need it, I haven't digested what I ate in the morning." Ge Yangyang waved his hands quickly, this kind of dark delicacy is really not flattering.

Ge Zhenfei bought a copy and tried it. His eyes lit up and he said, "It tastes a bit strange, but it tastes really good when dipped in chili sauce."

Li Mo walked slowly on the side of the road while eating, his eyes swept over the stalls one by one. After walking about a dozen stalls, he stopped in front of a stall. There are various types of stalls on this stall, including copper coins, silver dollars, jade bracelets, etc., and various wood carvings.

He rummaged through the pile of copper coins, picked up a few for a closer look, then rummaged through a few of the silver dollars for a closer look, and finally picked up a copper coin and said, "Boss, how much is this Qianlong copper coin of the Qing Dynasty?" pieces?"

"One thousand and five pieces." The boss is not a few years older than Li Mo, probably because he is young, so the price is very high, and he also has the mentality of fooling each other.

Li Mo picked out five copper coins from the inside, formed a small five emperors coin, placed them on the carpet and said: "Boss, give me a real price."

"Do you want to buy five?"

"If the price is right, I'll take it away."

"This is an ancient coin of the Qing Dynasty. One thousand and five coins is not high. If you buy five coins, I will give you a 30% discount, and then I will give you five thousand yuan."

Li Mo smiled, and then picked out four silver dollars that were a bit old and gray on the surface from the silver dollar box: "Add these four silver dollars?"

"This kind of silver dollar is 3,000 yuan. If you buy four pieces, I will still give you a discounted price. If you buy four pieces together, it will be 8,000 yuan."

"Boss, I'll buy the copper coin and the silver dollar together. Can you give me a discount?"

The young boss kept staring at Li Mo's face, and it was not easy to see any changes in his expression on his bronzed skin.

"Brother, don't be fooled by him. How can this be an ancient coin of the Qing Dynasty? I was in the antique shop at the intersection before, and one piece was only 300 yuan. It really is an ancient coin of the Qing Dynasty. The boss put Let's treat it like a kaizi, and we'll go to a regular antique store to buy it."

Seeing that the boss was thinking about something, Ge Yangyang spoke quickly, and then touched Ge Zhenfei who was beside her.

"Yeah, it's only 1,500 yuan to buy five pieces in a regular antique store, and you can get a small chop. Let's go, let's go to the store to have a look."

"Really?" Li Mo looked at the boss unkindly, stood up and said, "Then let's take a look."

"Little brother, you are not kind. I have already set the price, and I also gave you a discount. If the price is too high, you can pay the price again, just in case the deal will be done."

"Two hundred and fifty-one copper coins and eight hundred and one silver dollars. I will pay if I can."

"make a deal."

As soon as Li Mo finished speaking, the young boss clapped his hands and agreed to his counter-offer.

"Brother, you have paid too little, let's take a look." Ge Yangyang has fully developed the villain's style, just to persuade him not to buy.

"Forget it, you should be kind. Since I paid back the price and the boss agreed, that's it. Boss, the total is 4,450 yuan, right?"

"Yes, this gentleman is a real person, refreshing."

After paying, Li Mo picked up five copper coins and four silver dollars and left.

"Li Mo, did you just buy an antique?" Ge Yangyang asked curiously.

Li Mo picked out two silver dollars in his hand and handed them to her, saying: "These two are antiques, and the rest are imitations. Even the surface of the silver dollars is plated, and the cost price is at most dozens of dollars."

The three of them happened to pass by a trash can, and he stuffed it in casually.

Ge Yangyang looked at the silver dollar in his hand and hurriedly asked, "What dynasty is this antique?"

"This is the earliest silver dollar minted in China, and it was cast in Zhangzhou. After the Ming Dynasty came to the south of the Yangtze River and established the Nanming regime, like Zhu Youlang, Zhu Youxiao began to make this kind of silver dollar in Zhangzhou area for military pay. You carefully Look, there are four words 'Zhangzhou military pay' on one side of the silver dollar, and then there is a monogram."

Ge Yangyang looked at it and asked, "What is a monogram?"

"It is a pattern composed of characters. Mr. Guo Moruo once interpreted such a silver round monogram, saying that it is the three characters of 'Zhu Chenggong'. Look at the other side is the four characters of 'Footprint Tongtong', which refers to the use of currency. Function. Because the amount of this kind of silver coin is very small, and it is purely handmade, and it was taken back and melted into other silver dollars in the later dynasty, so this kind of silver dollar survived very rarely. Since then, this kind of silver dollar has been It has become one of the most precious silver coins in the world currency system, and the weight of this silver coin is relatively fixed, usually 26 grams or 27 grams, which may not be available in the hands of many ancient coin collectors. One of them. You can take it back and keep it for good collection. Rare things are more expensive, and the value will only get higher and higher.”

Ge Zhenfei and Ge Yangyang, father and daughter, looked at each other in shock. This Li Mo is too powerful, he is definitely a well-known treasure appraiser in the antique world. No wonder the person who bought the blue and white cup didn't hesitate at all when he heard his name, and was willing to buy it at a premium.

"Li Mo, this is too expensive, we can't have it." Ge Zhenfei thought for a while and still felt that he couldn't accept it.

"It's not expensive. The current market price of such an ancient coin is only about 300,000 yuan. You can keep it in your hands for fun, and you can consider selling it when the price rises to a higher level. But if you don't lack money, you should still keep it Keep it in your hand, anyway, the value will only get higher and higher, and it is not easy to break. Unlike the Ming Chenghua blue and white Sanskrit cup before, if you accidentally knock it off, the value will be greatly reduced. If it is broken, it will be a penny not worth."

One piece is 300,000 yuan, two pieces is 600,000 yuan, so much money is not expensive in his eyes.

"Uncle Ge, don't think too much. You saved me, and I don't know how to repay you. The money from selling the blue and white Sanskrit Cup will be reserved for Grandpa Ge's pension, and the two silver dollars will be given to Yangyang and her brother alone." one."

"This... this... Actually, I didn't do anything."

Ge Zhenfei really felt that he had done nothing. It was normal for him to help someone in distress in the Indian Ocean. He often did this before. But he has never treated money as money like Li Mo did.

"Uncle Ge, you may not take it to heart, but I will keep it in my heart for the rest of my life. In the future, as long as your Ge family needs my help, it is my duty. Well, don't refuse anymore, let's continue shopping and see if we are lucky. If it's good, I'll buy you a family heirloom.”

Ge Yangyang quietly pulled down her father's clothes, stuffed the silver dollar into his hand and said in a low voice, "Dad, it's too expensive, we can't take advantage of him just by saving her once. It's not a few thousand dollars." Tens of thousands of things, but hundreds of thousands, millions of problems."

"We'll wait until we get back to talk about this matter. His family members are expected to arrive in the afternoon at the earliest."

"Okay, let's follow up quickly."

The father and daughter ran to catch up, and saw Li Mo squatting down in front of a booth again, holding a porcelain bottle in his hand and watching carefully.

The porcelain is not big in size, with a slender neck like a swan's neck. The body of the bottle is round, and the glazed surface of the whole body presents a relatively pure blue color.

"Boss, this piece of porcelain is rare, what's its name?"

Li Mo raised the porcelain in his hand as a gesture, his eyes showed a look of curiosity.

"Little brother, you have to keep your hands steady. Don't underestimate this piece of porcelain. It's the most expensive piece of porcelain in my booth. If you accidentally break it, you won't be able to leave without paying 50,000 yuan." The boss She is an aunt, she is fat, and the down jacket she wears is also a puffed-up style, so the whole person looks like a ball.

"Boss, you really know how to joke. If this porcelain is really worth 50,000 yuan, you will put it on the street stall casually. You are not afraid of being distracted by people, and you are accidentally passed away by someone? That's fine, I'm not an idiot either, since I asked you, I just think the shape of this porcelain is quite exquisite, and I'll take it away if the price is right. Of course, if you insist on saying it's worth 50,000 yuan, I'm too lazy to bargain with you, so I put down the porcelain and leave."

The fat boss must be an old man, as soon as Li Mo scolds him, he knows that he has met someone who knows a little bit. Despite this, she still said without changing her face: "Since Mr. is an expert, I will tell the truth. I spent four thousand to buy this porcelain in the countryside. If you like it, I will earn some hard work. You Just give it four thousand and five."

Ge Yangyang thought it was time for him to play and cooperate.

(end of this chapter)

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