After walking past the book stall, Hao Huai came to the special area of ​​the antique market, with all kinds of coins, jade artifacts, calligraphy and paintings, etc. An old stall owner in his fifties actually placed a large black wardrobe behind the street stall, with a poem he had just written on it.

"The cockfighting wine tank has been gone for a long time, who can Chaiguan Ge decide? The lotus heart is broken and the diamond flowers are dark, and the stones and black cinnabar are peeled and the cinnabar is rotten. Maybe the bottle and furnace are exposed to Xuande, and who can estimate the Shang Yi and Xia cauldron?"

Hao smiled wickedly, walked towards the stall owner who was over 50, and asked, "Old man, what does this poem mean?"

The old stall owner smiled self-deprecatingly, with a hint of sadness on his face, and said, "This poem comes from a monk named Jieshan. This is a famous cultural temple fair here in the early Qing Dynasty. The meaning of the poem is that the antique market had already begun to be faked at that time, and the buyer would 's eyes' if he was not careful."

After the old stall owner finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed with a look of loss.

"Damn it? Is it just a loss to buy it, right?"

Hao Huaicai didn't care whether he lost or not. He looked at a white jade snuff bottle on his right hand, picked it up and put it on his right hand and fiddled back and forth, hoping to see the golden light of the ring appear again.

Things went against my wishes. Not only did the golden light not appear, but the ring also had no special reaction.

"It's weird, why didn't there be any reaction?"

Hao Huai was strangely surprised by the inaction of the ring. Then he thought of what the strange old man said in his dream yesterday, thinking, "Is the ring really necessary to preview its full abilities in advance before turning into a purple dragon? If purifying jade is one of the functions, what will be the next one?"

Hao Huai was thinking, and the old man in the street stall nodded and signaled that he had lost money by "smacking his eyes", and then asked Hao Huai, "Young man, you don't seem to be interested in antiques, you are here to visit the temple."

Seeing that the ring was not working, Hao Huai put it on the street stall casually and said angrily: "Who said I am not interested in antiques? I can set up a street stall."

"So I want to get into this industry!" After saying that, the old stall owner looked at Hao Huai's tender face.

"It's just right, the ring will not work anyway." Hao Huaiman Qing became cold because the ring escaped in the battle, but at this moment, Hao Huai suddenly felt that his right arm seemed to be out of control and slowly lifted up.

"What's the situation? Don't tell me, one of the functions of the ring is to make me lose my self-control."

His arm slowly headed towards the upper right corner of the street stall. Hao Huai forced his left arm to control his left arm, but he saw an ancient coin with good patina on the upper right corner. Hao Huai seemed to feel something, and stretched out his left hand to pick up the ancient coin. At that moment, the old stall owner, who seemed to be loyal and honest, showed a strange smile on his face.

"Young man, you have such a good eye." After Hao Huai picked up the ancient coin, the old stall owner stretched out two big thumbs and praised him.

Hao Huai looked at the old stall owner and said disdainfully: "What's the best sight? Isn't it just a copper coin?"

"No, no, this is not a copper coin, but a 'tooth-like'." The old stall owner twisted his beard with his hand, looking like an old expert.

"Tooth look?" Hao Huai naturally didn't understand what to explain the word "tooth look" and suddenly showed a curious look on his face, which was exactly what the old stall owner was looking forward to.

"Simply put, it is an ancient coins with ivory texture, but..."

Before Hao Huai could finish his words, he said in confusion: "I have only heard of copper coins, silver dollars, gold ingots, and why are there ivory in ancient coins?"

The old stall owner had already seen that Hao Huai was a layman, which is what the industry calls "Bangmao". He liked such people, so he was very difficult to be careful and explained in detail the history of our country's currency.

my country's history of minting coins has been around for three thousand years, and of course it is also the earliest country in the world to mint coins.

Currency is the product of commodity exchange, and the earliest currency that appeared in the late primitive society was physical currency. This point is also divided into two types: one is nomadic peoples, who used livestock and animal skins to realize their monetary functions. The other is agricultural peoples, who used grains, cloth, agricultural tools, pottery, sea shells, pearls and jade as the earliest physical currency. Among them, the ancient physical currency with wider circulation was 'shell'."

Shells became the main currency because of their easy storage, easy to carry and count, and were used until the Spring and Autumn Period.

The "unwritten copper shells" unearthed in tombs in the late Shang Dynasty were known as the most primitive metal currency. By the tombs in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, some loose copper blocks and copper ingots without certain shapes were also unearthed in tombs in the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

After hearing the old stall owner talked, Hao Huai thought the antiques were quite interesting, especially the historical and cultural aspects of the antiques made him a little curious.

"I really shout whatever I sell. I didn't expect you, an old man, really have a set. What else is the priority for this ancient currency?"

"I haven't finished speaking just now." The old stall owner continued: "Hand-carved mother coins, also known as "ancestral coins". They are directly carved into coin molds with copper or tin and lead blocks. When casting coins, they are made of ancestral coins and casting mother coins.

These mother coins were issued to various places, and the mother coins were made into pieces. After the Six Dynasties, the money was no longer cast with large-scale copper and stone coins, but instead cast with the mother coins sand-shaped casting, thus entering the stage of turning the sand-casting of the mother coins.

Whenever new coins are issued, firstly the sample coins are presented to the court. The sample coins are carefully carved with materials such as copper, tin, teeth, wood, etc. The teeth are sample coins carved by ivory. These sample coins presented are generally called 'ancestral coins'. Then, the mother coins are converted based on the ancestral coins, and finally the mother coins are smashed into sand molds to cast circulating coins. The mother model is abolished due to the use of the mother coins minting method, saving the cost of minting, and the process flow is more reasonable. It can be said to be twice the result with half the effort, which can be called a milestone in the history of coin minting."

After the old stall owner finished speaking, he looked at Hao Huai, who was a little engaging in hearing it, and continued: "Because it is not a circulating currency, it is very rare, and the amount of existence is even less."

After listening to the old stall owner's words, Hao Huai's eyes were inevitably attracted by the "tooth-like" ancient coins in his hands.

"When it comes to this 'Qianlong Tongbao tooth sample', the price is not low." Seeing Hao Huai's curious look, the old stall owner continued to use words to make the tooth sample look more attractive.

"The price is not low? How much is it worth?" Hao Huai's curiosity became even stronger under the infectious words of the old stall owner.

"Didn't you just say that the tooth sample is not much money in the world, so my Qianlong Tongbao's tooth sample can be easily sold for 35,000 yuan." The old stall owner saw that Hao Huai was already immersed in hearing this, and his words became more direct.

"Can you buy 35,000!" Hao Huai thought for a while and said, "How much did you collect this Qianlong Tongbao tooth sample?"

"Twenty thousand yuan." The old stall owner replied.

"Who is so stupid? Even though he knows that it is worth 35,000 yuan, he will sell it to you for 20,000 yuan." Hao Huai curled his lips, but he still expressed his questions.

"This is the fun place for antique shops." The old stall owner smiled and said, "It depends on your eyesight. And the few people who can really identify the authenticity of antiques are after all. If you buy low prices and sell high prices, this is to pick up bargains. If you don't pick up bargains in this industry, you will lose 80% of your charm."

"It sounds quite fun." After hearing the old stall owner's explanation, Hao Huai thought this antique was really fun.

The old stall owner saw that Hao Huai was listening seriously and did not argue with him. After turning his eyes, he smiled: "Young man, we will be with us in the future. If you like this money, can I give it to you at the market price?"

"Price price?" Hao Huai didn't quite understand.
Chapter completed!