Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 10 Getting rich

Bedding factory.

Ren Zhong soon received the 1,000 yuan sent by Zhang Wanhe, but he did not intend to take all the money back to his own time and space.

On the one hand, the amount he can carry is limited, and on the other hand, most ordinary dollars are not very valuable in modern times. Of course, this is relative. Even if these thousand dollars are the cheapest, each one costs more than 200 yuan. After all, these are real antique currencies, and special rare varieties are very valuable.

So after receiving it, Ren Zhong immediately conducted a preliminary screening and selection of this pile of oceans.

According to the information he had searched in advance, he selected the high-value items first.

I didn’t expect that this choice would lead to the discovery of a treasure.

The three legendary birds of Sun Yat-sen's sailboat were found in one go!
"I didn't expect to be so lucky. Three birds with one stone on a sailboat in the 21st year of the Republic of China! I'm rich, I'm rich!" Ren Zhong was ecstatic.

These three silver coins with a sailboat and three birds on them were issued in 32. It has only been eight years since then. In Ren Zhong's opinion, they are in excellent condition, with clear textures, vivid three-dimensional figures, and very little wear and tear. However, it seems that they have been circulating in transactions all the time, and there is still a layer of patina on the whole, which looks very natural.

This type of silver coin was the first "Shipyang" silver coin issued by the government after it determined the silver standard currency system and on the eve of the announcement of the "Draft Minting Regulations". It was also the authentic national currency of the time. Due to the fall of the three northeastern provinces, the pattern on the back of this version of the silver coin was considered inappropriate, so the authorities recalled most of them and recast them. Only a very small number are still circulating in the market.

Unexpectedly, there were three dollars mixed in with the ocean money Zhang Wanhe and his team received.

According to the auction price that Ren Zhong looked up, due to different qualities, the market price of this kind of silver coin ranges greatly, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. From the information Ren Zhong found, the quality of the three coins he has now is very close to the latest auction price of 46 yuan!

Ren Zhong sent out just these three!
With this discovery, Ren Zhong made a more careful inventory and soon discovered a new rare variety, the Gansu Province Yuan Datou of the third year of the Republic of China!
There are very few one-yuan coins of this kind left in Ren Zhong's time and space. Ren Zhong did not expect to find two of them in this batch of silver dollars. The ones in good condition usually start at one hundred thousand. The better the condition, the more valuable they are. Some have been auctioned for two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand.

With these few treasures in mind, Ren Zhong then selected all the silver coins. He was not so surprised to pick out a dozen Guangxu dragon coins and several Xuantong dragon coins, namely the Guangxu Yuanbao Kuoping 1908fen silver coin made in the Guangxu year (1911) and the Qing silver coin yuan silver coin made in the third year of Xuantong (). The auction price of this kind of dragon coins is usually around , with a difference of two to three times depending on the quality.

If it weren't for the first five treasures, these twenty or so would be worth at least half a million according to the auction price, which would be enough for Ren Zhong to live a good life for a year.

It's not that other silver coins are not valuable. For example, the more valuable Yuan Datou coins from the third, eighth, ninth and tenth years have quite a few in this batch, at least more than one hundred. Judging from the transaction price in the collection market, these silver coins are also worth more than one thousand yuan. However, a mere one hundred thousand yuan is not enough for Ren Zhong now.

However, Ren Zhong still put the dollars aside, and put the more than 30 valuable coins in his pocket.

“Draw the sword and travel through the system.

Current time and space: February 1940, Daxiawan, Jinzhong.

Countdown to return: 00:00:00.

Points: 1000.

Do you choose to return? "

"Yes!"

When the time to return came, Ren Zhong avoided everyone and decisively returned to the main plane with nearly a hundred selected oceans.

Oh shit, it’s so damn heavy!
These hundreds of silver dollars weighed more than 2 grams and filled four pockets before they were brought back. Ren Zhong quickly took out the silver dollars and observed them. He found that there was no change, and he felt relieved. But this was not enough. Ren Zhong sat on a stool, turned on the computer and confirmed the transaction prices of these silver dollars. After thinking for a while, he took out three silver dollars, two Guangxu silver dollars and one Xuantong silver dollar, and put the rest in his pocket and hid them in the clothes in the closet.

As the bus swayed to the cultural relics and antiques market, it happened to be a trading day today. Ren Zhong looked at a group of middle-aged and elderly people setting up stalls on both sides of the market, selling celebrity paintings and calligraphy. Some of the paintings were tattered and had traces of smoke and fire, as if they had been passed down in the family for hundreds of years and had just been abandoned.

Ren Zhong shook his head. Only a fool would dare to buy something like this. The aging was too fake and there was no professionalism at all.

However, in such a market, there are always good and bad people, and there are many people who want to find bargains, and maybe one or two newbies who don't know anything about it can be cheated. Ren Zhong didn't care about these, but looked for stalls selling big dollars along the way.

Soon we found a stall set up by an old man in a long gown selling dollars.

"Let me tell you, this kind of dragon coin appreciates in value very quickly. Look at these fine pieces of mine. They were only around five or six thousand two years ago. This year, you'll have to pay at least this amount to buy some average quality ones." The old man in the long gown said, stretching out a finger.

When Ren Zhong saw that they were discussing Guangxu Longyang, he stopped and listened to them.

Seeing so many people, the old man in a long gown setting up the stall became more excited.

"As we all know, the Guangxu Longyang is a machine-made silver coin, well-made, and generally weighs between 26.5 grams and 26.7 grams. It is the best among the machine-made silver coins of the Qing Dynasty. There are few in stock, and the collection value is extremely good. The appreciation prospect is very promising. If I hadn't been short of money recently, I would not have been willing to sell these few coins."

The old man in the long gown said as he picked up his Guangxu dragon silver coins and knocked them against each other gently, making a clear and soft sound. "Listen to the sound. The real Guangxu dragon silver coins are all so clear and soft. The fake ones either make a sharp sound. They are imitations made of steel and have no technical content at all. They are purely to deceive laymen.
Either the sound is hoarse, which is most likely made of copper-tin alloy. It is difficult to identify by looking at the color or measuring the weight. Apart from listening to the sound, you can only check the metal composition and measure the spectrum.
If the sound is dull, it may be an old-school counterfeit, using silver over copper, which cannot be detected by spectral analysis alone."

After the old man in the long gown gave a scientific explanation to everyone in a very eloquent manner, he had become taller in the eyes of some people.

However, the Guangxu Dragon Dollar in his hand was priced at as high as 15,000 or 16,000 yuan. Many people around him looked at it, but few wanted to buy it.

Even if this is genuine, the price is already clear. If you buy it and then sell it, there is no potential in the short term, which does not meet the mentality of people looking for bargains. So after watching for a while and listening to some popular science, the crowd slowly dispersed.

Ren Zhong also left with the crowd. He had no intention of communicating with the old man in the long gown. This stall was not his target at all. He just came here to check out the market conditions.

I went to several stalls selling dollars, including one selling Guangxu dragon dollars. The prices ranged from 10,000 to 30,000. Judging from the quality, the dollars in Ren Zhong's hands were much worse. After all, the dollars in Ren Zhong's hands had at least a hundred years of fewer bumps and bruises than theirs, so their quality was naturally much better.

Ren Zhong felt a little more confident, so he walked along the antique stalls until he saw a fixed and fairly large antique shop called Jianguzhai.

Acquisition.

Identification.

auction.

This family has taken over the entire chain of antique business.

Then let him be the one, Ren Zhong walked in with a smile.

(End of this chapter)