707. Daxia Zhenxing (1/5)
Li Du did not study cultural relics and antiques, but he could not disappoint his old classmates, so he released Xiao Feizeng and said, "I'll take a look, but don't have too much hope. I'm actually a half-baked guy."
After the little flying insect appeared, it did not fly towards the snuff bottle, but flew towards Yao Zhibo who was drinking tea quietly.
To be precise, it was flying towards his neck.
Li Du was surprised that the little flying insect flew to Yao Zhibo's neck and fell on his pendant. The pendant was a copper coin with patina and patina on it.
Seeing this, he stopped the little flying insects who were about to absorb the energy of time, and then said, "Wait for a moment, Lao Xu, Lao Yao, what's going on with the copper coin on your neck?"
Yao Zhibo took it off casually and said, "Oh, wasn't I weak when I was a child? My parents asked me for a doctor's medical treatment and asked me for some money to protect me, and I have been wearing it for many years."
Li Du picked up the copper coin and looked at it. After years of sweat stains and rubbing, the handwriting on it was a little blurred, with a layer of patina on the surface, which did not look conspicuous.
He asked the little flying insect to reverse time, and scenes about this coin appeared one by one.
In the first scene, the coin has been fully unveiled, which shows that it has existed for at least three or four hundred years.
The coins were initially in a box, and a Qing Dynasty man with a half-headed head with a big braid on the back and a green robe appeared. After getting the copper coins, he carefully protected it.
It was not until the modern wars that the copper coin was taken out of a fired old house and lost it, and it became displaced.
Judging from the old times he saw, this coin should be very precious, and several collectors attached great importance to it.
In the past, the ancient coins were well preserved and the handwriting was clear. Li Du identified it and it should be the four words "Taixia Zhenxing".
He stroked the lubricated copper coins and said, "Does anyone know about the ancient coins like Taixia Zhenxing?"
The group shook their heads in confusion, and Li Du said in a masterful manner: "Why don't you check the Internet?"
He didn't know what Daxia Zhenxing was, so he asked everyone to check online. If they found an introduction to this ancient coin online, he would just go down the road.
If there is no introduction to this ancient coin on the Internet, he can make up stories casually.
Everyone was impressed by his demeanor and took out their cell phones to check.
Zhang Xuening had the fastest Internet access on the phone. After searching, she was surprised and said, "No, belly, is the old demon's ancient coin so Xia Zhenxing?"
Li Du nodded and said, "Yes, what did you find?"
"Taixia Zhenxing is an ancient coin minted by Helian Bobo, the emperor of the Great Xia during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he established the country in Shaanxi in 407 AD and called Xia. After occupying Chang'an in 419, he established the Yuan Dynasty as Zhenxing. This coin was minted at this time."
"In this ancient coin, too, too big, so another name of the ancient coin is Daxia Zhenxing. Among them, Daxia is the country name and Zhenxing is the year name, with a diameter of 2.35 cm, a diameter of 0.85 cm, and a weight of 3.03 grams. It is extremely precious, extremely precious and extremely precious!"
"How precious?" Du Hang asked anxiously.
Du Zhengnan, holding his cell phone, said in surprise: "Damn, in 2004, an ancient coin sold for a high price of 1.657 million yuan in Kyoto! Is it true?!"
Li Du was also surprised. This coin is so valuable? It was worth more than 1.65 million years ago?
The others were even more surprised and shouted, "Damn it, right? Show it to me! It's really expensive, and the money is very small!"
Yao Zhibo was shocked. He stared at Li Du in a daze, and would only say, "Don't joke, don't joke, don't joke!"
Li Du didn't care about pretending to be a master, so he took out his mobile phone to search for information.
As Zhang Xuening said, the founder of this copper coin was Helian Bobo, the founding emperor of the "Daxia Kingdom" established by the Xiongnu tribe during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
Helian Bobo established Daxia in 407 AD, and in 417, he joined forces with the Eastern Jin Dynasty to conquer the Later Qin Dynasty at that time. The following year, he seized Guanzhong from the Eastern Jin Dynasty and became the most terrifying dominant country in the north.
Because of the capture of Guanzhong and the acquisition of a lot of wealth and spoils, the "Daxia Zhenxing" uses fine materials and exquisite castings, but this kind of money has been rarely known for a long time because it has been stored too little.
Why is it so rare? It turns out that Helian Bobo, who started his rebellion, established a deformed country with strong military force and lagging behind in economic and administrative construction. There is no formed administrative division at all. He mainly relies on war to plunder himself, and commodity trading is better than nothing.
"Daxia Zhenxing" is to some extent a "commemorative coin", that is, a prop for Helian Bobo to show off his prosperity and status. Because of this, it will not be in large quantities, and it will not be used in large quantities for market circulation.
Helian Bobo died in the sixth year of Zhenxing. Two years later, the capital of Daxia was captured by the Northern Wei Dynasty. The slump of Daxia finally died in 431.
In this way, even if "Daxia Zhenxing" was forged in the first year of Zhenxing, its "legal existence" history is only 12 years short, so naturally there are not much left.
There is also reliable evidence on the rareness and value of this coin. During the Daoguang period, Liu Xihai mentioned this kind of ancient coins when he made annotations for Weng Shupei's "Guquan Huikao", saying that Suzhou collector Gu Yuan once obtained one from a man named Chen Zhongxi, which was very precious.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a collector named Luo Zhenyu finally got one, which was a strange product. Luo Zhenyu, who had seen the world, was overjoyed and named his residence "Helian Quanshe", which means a house with coins from the Kingdom of Daxia.
More and more information was dug out by them, and they exclaimed in surprise.
The waiter thought something was wrong inside, so he quickly opened the door and asked, "Is there anything you need?"
Li Du waved his hand and said, "Don't serve the food and wine first, we have something to discuss here."
He returned the coins to Yao Zhibo, and more than a dozen people came up to see them together.
This coin is very worn and there are two of the four characters on the ancient coin that are unclear. Among them, "Da" and "Xing" are still clear, while the words "Xia" and "Zheng" in half-literary and half-kai are relatively vague.
However, if you can still recognize these two words carefully.
"Is this a real thing? Isn't it a fake currency made by later generations?" Du Hang asked.
Li Du patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, it's absolutely true, I can guarantee it."
Yao Zhibo looked at him blankly and said, "This is worth more than one.6 million?"
"The price was more than a few years ago!" someone said.
Li Du shook his head: "This coin cannot be sold for more than 1.6 million yuan, but it is of average quality."
The news about the auction at that time included photos of ancient coins, and the quality of the ancient coins was well preserved.
Yao Zhibo looked at him expectingly and said, "Then how much do you think this coin can be sold?"
Li Du couldn't bear to let him down, so he had to force himself to calmly say: "It's okay to spend millions!"
Chapter completed!