"Shaanxi" is a place that not only has a long history, but also is full of treasures. In addition to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which has not been opened so far, the treasure was also found in "Qishan County" in 1987; when the discoverer received a reward of "10 pieces and 6 points", who could have imagined that these treasures are now worth more than "2 million".
The "Chinese" contains "Zhou Zhixingye, the partridge (phoenix) singing in Qishan", "Qishan" is also one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization; near Qishan in 1987, there lived an ordinary villager named "Zhang Meng"
This "Zhang Mengqi" originally had nothing special, half a lifetime of facing the loess with his back to the sky, but since the discovery of the "Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin" in Shaanxi, his ideas began to wave; in short, after the discovery of the "Terracotta Warriors" in Shaanxi, there were successive news that some people were rewarded after discovering ancient tombs and cultural relics, and at the same time, there were also many traders who "collected old goods" in various places.
In those years and months, everyone did not have a deep understanding of "cultural relics", let alone the value of what was dug out underground; take "Zhang Mengqi" as an example, he once dug out a bronze in the soil, but because he did not know the value, he finally "lost" inexplicably.
Since Zhang Mengqi heard the news that "XX people found national treasures and received heavy awards", his heart was really uncomfortable, maybe the bronzes he found that year were also "national treasures"; if he did not lose them, did not he also get a heavy prize?
Although Zhang Mengqi thinks so, he has no choice, but since then he has been quite concerned about "hoeing the ground"; one day in April 1987, Zhang Mengqi was farming in his own field as usual, and when he went down with a hoe, his arm was shaken.
In normal times, this situation is at best considered to be "a stone in the soil", but At this time, Zhang Mengqi did not think so, because he had "experience" in this situation; Zhang Mengqi quickly squatted down and carefully pulled the cover soil apart, but what appeared was not an imaginary "big instrument", but a bronze mirror that had been smashed by a hoe, and then there were a few copper coins.
The "copper mirror" has been broken, not to mention, Zhang Mengqi is quite interested in those copper coins, the reason is very simple, the appearance of the copper coins is quite strange; really speaking, Zhang Mengqi is not sure whether it is a "copper coin", because this thing is like the current key, the upper half is round, there is a hole in the middle, and the lower half is like a knife.
Anyway, Zhang Mengqi has never seen this kind of thing, and he doesn't know if it is a "copper coin", but how to say it is also "dug out of the ground", maybe what kind of treasure it is; in this way, Zhang Mengqi picked it in the soil again, and there were more than ten "copper coins" in total, along with the broken bronze, and returned home with a handkerchief.
Since then, Zhang Mengqi has fiddled with those "copper pieces" without any problem, making his wife very dissatisfied with him, and from time to time he has to say a few words of complaint; Zhang Mengqi did not think so, and half-jokingly replied, "Don't nag, one day these copper pieces have become treasures, and you are happy." ”
It was also a coincidence that there was a "collection of old goods" in the village, Zhang Mengqi took the "copper piece", which also had the meaning of treasure; as a result, the "collection of old goods" was not picked up, and Zhang Mengqi was asked "What are you holding?" ”
This is good, the crowd of onlookers issued a burst of laughter, Zhang Mengqi made a big red face; "You don't know the goods, this is a treasure" Zhang Mengqi argued strongly on his mouth, but in his heart he was playing drums, is it difficult to find the real "key" he dug up?
In the laughter, Zhang Mengqi squeezed out of the crowd with a "copper piece", gambled in his heart, and went straight to the Qishan County Museum at that time; this time, Zhang Mengqi finally smiled, because experts told him that these were precious cultural relics.
In a nutshell, Zhang Mengqi brought ancient coins from Wang Mang's "New Dynasty" era more than 2,000 years ago, including: two "golden wrong knives", one "deed knife", one "cargo cloth", "Daquan Fifty" and "Cargo Spring", a total of more than ten pieces, plus a broken bronze mirror.
Among these ancient coins, the most valuable thing to say is the two "golden wrong knives". The so-called "golden wrong knife" is a bronze currency personally supervised and issued by Wang Mang; its shape is probably composed of a knife ring and a knife body, the "knife ring" is a circular square hole, and the "ring" should have an inscription, "one" on the top and "knife" on the bottom.
According to historical records, the inscription should be engraved in yin, the inscription should be filled with gold, and polished, so that the literal and the money face are level, and the knife body should also be cast with the Yang script "Ping Five Thousand", so it is also called "Golden Wrong Knife"; this is a currency "invented" by Wang Mang, "Ping Five Thousand" means: a "golden wrong knife" can be worth five thousand dollars, and two such currencies can be worth "one (pound) gold".
Today, this currency is also a "copper coin", two pieces can be exchanged for (one pound) of gold, which is obviously Wang Mang plundering the wealth of the people; it is true that Wang Mang issued the "golden wrong knife" to quickly accumulate a large amount of gold, but it was also strongly resisted by the people, and the circulation time of the "golden wrong knife" was very short, and the number of survivors was very rare.
Zhang Mengqi's two "golden wrong knives", 7.2 centimeters long and weighing about 30 grams, are still well preserved after a thousand years of burial in the ground, so they have high historical value; according to the 1987 era, the ancient coins in Zhang Mengqi's hands were "recovered" by the museum, and he was rewarded with "7 pieces", plus transportation, accommodation, etc., a total of "10 pieces and 6 points".
In 1987, "10 yuan and 6 points", although it is not a huge amount, but it is not a lot, Zhang Mengqi is a small fortune; but what he does not know is that in 2007, there was also a "golden wrong knife" at an auction, and the transaction price at that time was 96,000. In 2016, the "golden wrong knife" appeared in overseas auctions, and its final transaction price exceeded 190,000; today, the value of the "golden wrong knife" is expected to be higher.
In addition to the two "golden wrong knives" in Zhang Mengqi's hand that year, there were more than ten precious ancient coins of various kinds, and some people estimated that their total value exceeded "2 million".