Li Du did not know much about cultural relics and antiques, but he could not let his old classmates down. He released the little bug and said, "I'll take a look, but don't get your hopes up. I'm actually a dabbler."
After the little bug appeared, it did not fly to the snuff bottle, but to Tao Zhi Bo, who was silently drinking tea.
To be precise, it was flying to his neck.
Li Du was puzzled. After the little bug flew to Tao Zhi Bo's neck, it landed on his pendant. The pendant was a copper coin with a layer of verdigris and paste on it.
Seeing this, he stopped the little bug, which was about to absorb the time energy, and said, "Wait a moment, Old Xu. Old devil, what's with the copper coin on your neck?"
Tao Zhi Bo took it off casually and said, "Oh, wasn't I weak when I was a child? My parents asked a doctor for some money to protect me, and I've been wearing it for many years. "
Li Du picked up the copper coin and looked at it. After years of sweat and friction, the writing on the coin was a little blurred, and the surface was covered with a layer of paste, so it did not look conspicuous.
He let the little bug turn back time, and scenes of the coin appeared one by one.
In the first scene, the coin had been completely revealed, which meant that it had existed for at least three or four hundred years.
The coin was originally in a box, and then a bald man with a big braid at the back and a green robe appeared. After this man got the coin, he protected it even more seriously.
It was not until the war in modern times that the coin was taken out of an old burning house and lost, that it became homeless.
From what he saw in the old times, the coin should be very precious, and its previous collectors had valued it very much.
In the past, the ancient coin was well-preserved, and the writing on it was clear. Li Du identified it and it should be the words' Taixia Zhen Xing. '
He rubbed the smooth copper coin and said, "Do any of you know about the Taixia Zhen Xing ancient coin?"
A group of people shook their heads blankly. Li Du acted like an expert and said, "Then why don't you check it on the Internet?"
He did not know what the Taixia Zhen Xing was, so he asked everyone to check it on the Internet. If they found an introduction to the ancient coin on the Internet, he could take advantage of it.
If there was no introduction to the ancient coin on the Internet, he could make up a story.
Everyone was awed by his demeanor and took out their phones to check.
Zhang Xuening's mobile phone was the fastest. After searching for a while, she exclaimed in surprise, "Are you kidding me? Old Demon, this ancient coin is Taixia Zhen Xing?"
Li Du nodded and said, "Yes, what did you find out?"
"Zhenxing of Taixia Country is an ancient coin minted by Helian Bobo, the emperor of Great Xia Country in the period of 16 kingdoms. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he established a country in Shaanxi Province in 407 AD. In 419 AD, he occupied Chang'an and established the dynasty as Zhenxing. This coin was minted at that time."
"On this ancient coin, Tai is also from Da, so the other name of this ancient coin is Da Xia Zhen Xing. Da Xia is the name of the country, and Zhen Xing is the name of the year. It has 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!"
"How precious is it?" Du Hang asked anxiously.
Du Zheng Nan, who was holding up his phone, exclaimed in surprise, "F * ck, in 2004, an ancient coin like this was auctioned for a high price of 1.657 million RMB! Really?! "
Li Du was also surprised. This coin was worth so much? It was worth more than 1.65 million a few years ago?
The others were even more shocked and shouted, "F * ck, it can't be, right? Let me see, let me see! "" It's really expensive, it's said to be very little! "
Tao Zhi Bo was stunned. He looked at Li Du blankly and could only say, "Don't joke, don't joke, don't joke with me!"
Li Du could no longer pretend to be an expert and took out his phone to search for information.
As Zhang Xue Ning had said, the minter of this copper coin was Helian Bobo, the founding emperor of the Great Xia Country, which was founded by the Xiongnu during the period of 16 kingdoms.
Helian Bobo founded the Great Xia Country in 407 AD. In 417 AD, he joined forces with the Eastern Jin Dynasty to destroy the largest country in the north, Later Qin. The following year, he seized Guanzhong from the Eastern Jin Dynasty and became the most powerful country in the north.
Due to the seizure of Guanzhong, he obtained a lot of wealth and spoils of war. Therefore, the materials used for the Da Xia Zhen Xing were exquisite and the casting was exquisite. However, because there were too few of this coin, it had long been unknown.
Why was it so rare? It turned out that Helian Bobo, who had started a rebellion, had built a deformed country with a strong military but lagging economic and administrative construction. There were no formed administrative divisions at all and they mainly relied on war and plunder to enrich themselves. The trading of goods was better than nothing.
The Da Xia Zhen Xing was, to some extent, a "commemorative coin." It was a prop that Helian Bobo used to show off his wealth and status. Because of this, there were not many of them and they were not circulated in the market in large quantities.
Helian Bobo passed away in the sixth year of Zhen Xing. Two years later, the capital of the Great Xia Country was conquered by the Northern Wei Kingdom. The depressed Great Xia Country finally died of old age in 431 AD.
In this way, even if the Da Xia Zhen Xing was cast in the first year of Zhen Xing, its "legal existence" was only a short 12 years. Naturally, there was not much left.
There was also reliable evidence about the rarity and value of this coin. During the Daoguang era, Liu Xihai had mentioned this kind of ancient coin when he was annotating Weng Shupei's Ancient Spring Collection. He said that the Suzhou collector Gu Yuan had obtained one from a person named Chen Zhongxi and that it was very precious.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a collector named Luo Zhenyu managed to get his hands on one with great difficulty. Luo Zhenyu, who had seen much of the world, was overjoyed and named his house "Helian Spring House," which meant the house where the coins of the Great Xia Country were kept.
More and more information was dug out by them, and for a while, there was a lot of exclamations.
The waiter thought that something had happened inside, so he quickly opened the door and asked, "What can I do for you?"
Li Du waved his hand and said, "Don't serve the dishes and wine yet. We have something to discuss here."
He returned the coin to Tao Zhi Bo, and more than a dozen people gathered around to look at it.
The coin was badly worn, and two of the four characters on it were unclear. Among them, the characters for 'Da' and 'Xing' were still clear, while the characters for 'Xia' and 'Zhen', which were written in semi-script script, were rather blurry.
However, if one looked closely, they could still barely make out the two words.
"This is the real thing, right? Could it be a counterfeit coin made later? "Du Hang asked.
Li Du patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, it's definitely the real thing. I can guarantee it."
Tao Zhi Bo looked at him blankly and said, "This is worth more than 1.6 million?"
"This was the price a few years ago, and it's definitely more than that now!" someone said.
Li Du shook his head. "This coin can't be sold for more than 1.6 million. It's of average quality."
There was a photo of the ancient coin in the news of the auction, and that ancient coin was in good condition.
Tao Zhi Bo looked at him expectantly and said, "Then how much do you think this coin can be sold for?"
Li Du couldn't bear to disappoint him, so he forced himself to be calm and said, "A million is no problem!"
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