Chapter 19 Signed Yuan Datou
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There were also fewer tourists in the market. When I saw that many people were hiding in the shade of trees on the side of the park, most of them were holding snacks bought from food stalls in their hands, where to enjoy lunch.
Even the small vendors looked listless at this time.
My stomach was full, so it was time to find some serious work. Jin Muchen looked ahead and found that it was about half a mile before he could cross the entire Hester Street. He decided to take advantage of the lack of people at this time to finish the street.
If you finish walking and still don’t find anything you like, you will retreat immediately and not waste time here.
The previous section of the market gave him a bad feeling. Most of the customers here are too grassroots and too low-end, and most of the products here are second-hand goods defined by Americans as antiques.
There are no Chinese antiques he imagined, so he doesn't want to waste time here too much.
Candice did not object to his proposal, mainly because he had eaten too much just now, and his stomach was a little stretched at this time, and he wanted to take two more steps to digest the food.
So the two became one of the few tourists shopping in the sun.
Although Jin Muchen was just a quick look, with his eyesight, he could see through many stalls. Just just glance at them, you could tell that there was nothing worthy of his attention, so he walked very quickly.
He was about to walk to the end of Hester Street and couldn't fall in love with anything he liked. Jin Muchen was a little regretful, and the same was true for Candice. He thought that taking him on a trip would be worth the trip, but he didn't expect that he had nothing to see at all.
Just as he was about to walk out from the end of the street, a stall selling silverware stunned Jin Muchen. The light of the bright silverware in the sun was particularly dazzling, but Jin Muchen just scanned it casually, but he saw a flash of green air passing by in the dazzling light.
This strange situation was exactly the same as when he saw the Yongzheng pastel bowl at the black buddy's house that day, but this time the color of the air turned blue and green, Jin Muchen stopped and turned toward which stall he walked towards.
When Candice saw that Jin Muchen seemed to have finally discovered something that interested him, she also became interested. She wanted to see what aroused this guy's interest.
This stall owner is an Indian with a strong accent. The stalls mainly buy silverware, and most of them have a very strong Indian style.
However, Jin Muchen was not interested in those spoons, knives and forks, coffee pots, etc. He was interested in a set of silver coins thrown on the lower corner of the left side of the stall. The green smell was reflected from this set of silver coins.
The Indian stall owner with a strong accent introduced the products on his stall while carefully looking at Jin Muchen and the beautiful girls beside him. From time to time, when Candice couldn't see it, he even gave Jin Muchen a thumbs up and winked at him. The meaning was definitely saying: Hey! Brother, you have a great look.
However, the Indian stall owner had a very good vision. Seeing that he had introduced himself for a long time, Jin Muchen was absent-minded. When he saw Jin Muchen's gaze, he immediately understood. He picked up the set of silver coins and handed them to Jin Muchen.
"Friends, if you like it, take a look. This is a Chinese silver coin with a history of 100 years, and the very famous Yuan Datou!"
When Jin Muchen heard the three words Yuan Datou popped out of the stall owner's mouth with a strong accent, he suddenly felt amused and crying.
Unexpectedly, I could actually see Yuan Datou in the United States!
And it was seen from an Indian. Jin Muchen, who was already a little disappointed with Hester Street, really didn't know how to describe his feelings at this time.
But no matter what the feeling is, this set of Yuan Datou is always right, and it looks very well preserved.
Candice didn't know much about silver coins, nor was she interested. Instead, the exquisitely crafted tableware, silver plates, coffee pots and other things attracted her more. She just took a look at the silver coins in Jin Muchen's hand, and then turned her attention to other exquisitely styled silverware.
Jin Muchen was so happy that he was quiet. His grandfather used to play with collecting, so when he was a child, there were many such Yuan Datou at home. At that time, Yuan Datou was not worth much.
I remember when I was a child, in the early 1990s, people often asked Yuan Datou to buy it with him, and those Yuan Datou were all authentic old versions and there were no fakes.
He remembered very clearly that Yuan Datou was not regarded as an antique at that time. At that time, people regarded Yuan Datou more as silver coins. There were even many young people who would take Yuan Datou to find a master in a gold and silver shop on the street to melt Yuan Datou and then make a ring.
At that time, the price of Grandpa's acquisition of Yuan Datou was not wrong, it seemed to be between ten and thirty yuan, and it should be distinguished based on Yuan Datou's appearance.
If the quality is intact, it will be more expensive. The price ranges from twenty to thirty. If the quality is not good, just give it a price of ten or eight yuan.
After ten years, when the domestic antique trend emerged, Yuan Datou's price soared in the antique market. He could even buy seven or eight hundred yuan for good quality, and at the highest point, even more than a thousand yuan.
However, in recent years, it seems that with the fluctuation of the price of the white silver market, Yuan Datou's price has dropped a lot.
The appearance of this set of Yuan Datou looks quite good, and the most important thing is that this set of Yuan Datou is quite complete, and what surprised Jin Muchen the most was that this actually was a complete set of Yuan Datou suits from the third year of the Republic of China.
The top is the two Yuan Datou one-yuan versions placed on the front and back sides, and the bottom is the two Zhongyuan versions placed on the front and back sides. The two two corners placed on the front and back sides below, and then one corner, and finally five minutes.
This set of Yuan Datou suit opened Jin Muchen's eyes because the Yuan Datou he had seen before were all one-yuan versions, and the Zhongyuan was only five-cent, and there were two corners, one corner, and five-cent Yuan Datou. This was the first time he had seen it.
Let’s look at the year written on this set of Yuan Datou, which actually says the third year of the Republic of China.
When he saw this year, Jin Muchen couldn't help but suddenly burst into tears, remembering some of the past that grandfather told him about Yuan Datou when he was playing with Yuan Datou, which he had told him.
When my grandfather took Yuan Datou, Jin Muchen was still young and often liked to play with those Yuan Datou as coins. Many of the Yuan Datou that my grandfather took were fine products and had a very high silver content.
When he took it to his mouth and blew it hard, he would hear a very crisp and pleasant buzzing sound, so at that time he often played with his grandfather's silver coins.
At that time, my grandfather took Yuan Datou and taught him what this thing is, what is the use of this thing, what is the difference between this thing, how to identify it, etc.
He still remembered that grandpa mentioned that there was a fine product in Yuan Datou that would definitely be a rush to collectors in the future. That one happened to be a signed version of Yuan Datou in the third year of the Republic of China.
It turned out that in April 1912, Yuan Shikai served as the interim president of the Republic of China. In order to improve his prestige, he specially invited coin designers from Italy, Ruhr and George came to help design a brand new silver coin.
It was later that Yuan Datou, the famous Yuan Datou, started trial production at the Tianjin Mint Factory in the third year of the Republic of China. Before mass production, the Italian designer engraved the English abbreviation of his name L.G on the right side of the Yuan Datou picture.
And such Yuan Datou is in the market, which is circulating on Yuan Datou.
Until today, when Yuan Datou has become an antique from its original currency, the price of a Yuan Datou with an average quality has been speculated to be seven or eight hundred yuan, while the price of a good quality is even three or five thousand yuan.
The price of a signed version of Yuan Datou with the English abbreviation L.G has now been hyped up to more than 30,000 per piece.
Of course, Jin Muchen didn't know about the current market for Yuan Datou, but he just knew that today he met the finest products among Yuan Datou as grandfather mentioned.
And it is actually a whole set, and Yuan Datou is actually signed.
At this time, he had already understood why he could see the green aura flashing on the silverware stall when he was far away. His feelings were the treasure aura emitted from this set of treasures.
The Indian stall owner, watching Jin Muchen with the Yuan Big Head suit over and over again and again, knew that this guy was likely to become the buyer of this set of silver coins, because only the real buyer would look so carefully.
The vendor has been setting up stalls here for a morning, but it has not opened yet. He urgently needs this business to open for himself, so at this time he is explaining the origin of this set of silver coins to Jin Muchen.
"This set of Chinese silver coins is still the treasure left by my grandfather back then. At that time, he was still working as a police officer in the concession in Shanghai. This set of silver coins was left by my grandfather back then. I have been kept in my house for decades. Today, seeing that you like him, I can agree to transfer him to you..."
Another set of Indian versions of the heirloom story. Such stories are staged almost every day in the antique market in China, but I didn’t expect that the same is true in the United States.
Such stories are generally not very credible, but it doesn’t matter how the specific signature version of Yuan Datou came from. What’s important is that this set of Yuan Datou is real.
Chapter completed!