The barber shop visited by Brother Yu is located near the old bus stop in Baiwanzhuang.

In the 1980s, an ancient city tower was built here in Lingling. There were many colorful lanterns on nights during festivals. In February last year (2002), an antique market was established on the street to the east of the ancient city tower.

It was the first one of the Antique Streets of Baiwanzhuang, and then the Lengshuitan Antique Markets. Now Baiwanzhuang has declined, and only some shops are left to slaughter tourists. However, when Brother Yu and I went there, it was just established, so it can be said that it is lively.

extraordinary.

Entering the market with a hat and mask, the voices were noisy.

I casually visited a few stalls, and the proportion of real and old goods is not low, but they are all old and ordinary products, so they are useless.

"Boss, how do you sell your copper incense burner?" I asked.

"Xuande Furnace, an old imitation of the late Qing Dynasty, if you want it, it will cost 600 yuan."

"That's not expensive, how about three hundred? I'll ask you if there is any shop here that specializes in ancient coins?"

"Yes, walk to the head and turn left, go up to the second floor, the shop in the middle is just like that. The boss is very awesome. Not to mention other places, this is the one in our Yongzhou antique shop."

The stall owner gave me a thumbs up.

I put down the stove and walked into the market. The stall owner behind me shouted to me: "Hey! I've packed it for you! Three hundred!"

I turned around and said I didn't want it anymore.

After going up the second floor and walking to the middle, I looked up and saw an old winged wooden plaque with three words on it.

"Plum Money Hall".

Push the door and enter.

"What do you two want? Just watch it, I'm having a meal."

An old man in his fifties and sixties was eating with a bowl.

There were several large rolled jars on the ground, filled with copper coins, all tied with thin wire ropes.

There were some rare copper coins in the glass display cabinet, and I quickly glanced at it, such as the two Jingkang Tongbao, ten Kaiyuan Tongbao, Basibawen Dayuan Tongbao sample money, Qianlong Tongbao mother money, etc., all of which were equipped with exquisite mahogany wooden boxes.

The most awesome thing is to see a star and moon in Xianfeng as a thousand mother embryo, with a top-notch quality. It seems that this shop is hidden in depth.

"Hello, do you collect copper coins here?" I asked.

The old man turned his head with the bowl and said, "I won't accept it normally, look,"

"Pata."

I took out one and pressed it on the glass cabinet.

The old man slowly stopped stretching out his chopsticks. He put down the bowl and took my copper coins in his hand to observe carefully.

After a minute or two, the old man put down the copper coins casually, continued to pick up the bowl, and said while eating: "It's okay, how much do you want to sell?"

As soon as I saw him, I knew that the old man was pretending. He wanted it, but he just deliberately pretended that nothing was wrong.

"How much do you give?"

Actually, I don’t know how much it is. I used to read the Quanpu, but I only knew that this was the money from the Qing Dynasty. The Quanpu rating was "remarkable", so I thought I could be worth "8,000 to ten thousand?"

"How much do you give me..."

"Your copper coin has a large diameter and is a mangroun coin cast by Huang Taiji in the early Qing Dynasty. It's very rare."

"But, yours is a modern imitation. I'll give you 15 yuan."

I was stunned.

It turns out that there are people who are worse than me, and they are indeed fellow travelers.

Fake? I want to slap this old man to death. How could it be fake? I can't take it out of the cave wall by myself?

Brother Yu laughed when he heard this. He put on his mask and said, "Yunfeng, you got such a big copper coin, it turns out that it is only worth fifteen yuan."

I said with a dark face: "You are looking at it carefully. Someone else has sold me tens of thousands of yuan, but I didn't sell it. It can't be fake. This is my grandfather's ancestors."

"I've bought tens of thousands of yuan? Is it true or false?"

"Once your ancestors... have you worked in the palace?"

Brother Yu and I turned around and left.

The man called me again, "Young man! Wait!"

"I'm not trying to cheat you. I've never seen this money before. It doesn't feel good. Wait, I'll let my granddaughter show you how it is? She's right there."

I pushed the door open and entered the inner room. It turned out that it was not big outside, and there was another shop inside, with several rooms.

There are three people in the inner room, two men and one woman.

The two men were carrying backpacks and looked dusty. I saw that they were covered in dust on their shoes and trousers.

The woman was probably about 27 years old, wearing gold-edged glasses, long hair drooping her shoulders, very white skin, and was lowering her head and pressing the computer quickly.

She pressed her fingers up and down very quickly, and only heard: "Add three plus five plus six plus seven, return to zero and return to zero..."

At this speed, I feel that the calculator will be hit in the next second.

"Think about it."

The woman raised her head, held her glasses and said, "3334 pieces, half of Baoquan Bureau, I will give you a higher score from Baoyuan Bureau and Baode Bureau, a total of... " She pressed the calculator again and said

:"Total 86995."

"Old rules, I will punish you 86,000."

"Oh, Sister Mei, you've been smeared again. You know, it's not easy for us to do the front line. We finally built a cellar. Sister Mei can give us enough."

The woman in glasses frowned and said, "Do you sell it? Don't waste my time. I'll give you the highest price. If you don't sell it, leave."

"Sell, sell! Alas..."

"Okay, go find Xiao Li to get money."

I thought to myself, it turns out that these two people were slaughtering flowers (engaging in front-line treasure hunting).

"What's wrong with the old man? Are these two?"

"Meimei, you're done with it. That's it. I can't understand what they have. You can see if it's true or not. Can our store collect it?"

"Oh? What's the money? Take it out and I'll take a look."

I put the big copper coins on the table in front of her again.

"Old Manwen's Tiancong money..."

She exclaimed in surprise, looked around for two minutes and said, "This is not fake, this is true, and it is not ordinary Tiancong money."

"Old man, Tiancong coins are the only coins in the Qing Dynasty that were not minted by sand turning method. They can be said to be one coin. Tiancong has no mother coins, but there is a sample of coins. This one is over 4 cm in diameter, and you can see through the mouth.

Cultivating the sword, this is the tribute money from Huang Taiji Tiancong Tongbao."

"Where did you two get it?"

Ah, I thought to myself that Meimei was so good, so I got it for a minute or two, and I didn’t know that it was the money.

But this woman looks very honest.

The sample money is the first version. After the Ministry of Works created it, it was for the emperor to show it. After reading it, the emperor felt that it was fine, so he made small money according to the sample money.

Tiancong’s money is extremely special and has no mother’s money.

Later Qianlong Tongbao, Daoguang Tongbao and others all had mother coins, and the process of making copper coins was like this.

First, find a calligrapher to use wood and carve money words like tooth material. This is called ancestral money. After determining the style, the ancestral money will be burned.

The craftsman of the Ministry of Works, looking at the appearance of the ancestral money, carved a copper coin on the brass with a sharp carving knife, which is the carving mother.

Other craftsmen took the carving mother and went to sand and cast it. After the casting heads were refined, they were the mother's money.

Finally, the mother money was sent to various counties and cities, and the mother money was used to cast a large amount of child money.

According to the current market price, an ordinary Daoguangtong treasure son is worth 5 yuan, and the mother is worth 20,000 yuan, and the mother is probably worth more than 200,000 yuan.

I heard the woman say, "I took it, how much do you want to sell it?"

I looked at Brother Yu and said, "You can see that Boss Mei is an honest businessman, and I am also an honest person."
Chapter completed!