"I picked up a penny on the side of the road and handed it to my uncle the policeman..."
The hard cents sung in the song should be familiar to everyone, and when I was a child, I really grabbed a lot of money at home. Now these forgotten "penny" is not what it used to be, the value has skyrocketed, let's see if you have any at home
There are so many hard cents, which ones are worth collecting?
One
The Five Heavenly Kings
In the coin collection, there are 5 hard cents known as the "Five Kings".
The "Five Kings" refers to 5 points in 1979, 1 and 5 points in 1981, and 2 and 5 points in 1980.
▲Coin "Five Heavenly Kings"
The state issued five hard cents between 1979 and 1981, because these five coins were produced very little at that time, and the various denominations of coins in the same year were bound into the "Annual Chinese Coin Set", which was given away or sold to foreign guests as collectibles (6 yuan for foreign exchange coupons), and was not mass-produced, issued and circulated, which was naturally very precious.
Currently, the price of each of these five pieces is high:
Nowadays, the value of each piece is as high as thousands of yuan, of which the highest collection price of 1 point and 5 points in 1081 is as high as 8,000 yuan / piece, which is an amazing increase! This is difficult for any other investment and financial management to do.
A 5 cent coin from 1981 was auctioned for 12,200 yuan!
If you have a family member with a hard coin, you can look at the 5 cent coin in your hand, it should be difficult to find the year 1981.
Because the coin was never publicly issued, it never entered circulation, and only appeared in the 1981 circulating coin binding set.
▲ 1981 red-skinned ben
This set has two official packagings, one is a general coin version of the Shenyang Mint's red leather copy, and the other is a blue binding card of the white coat issued by the Shanghai Mint, which is a refined coin.
▲Shanghai Mint Refined set
This 5-cent coin, which cost a high price of 12,200 yuan, came from the general coin set. This set contains 7 general coins, namely the Great Wall Coin 1 yuan, 5 corners, 2 corners, 1 corner, and 1981 5 cents, 2 cents, 1 cent.
The number of this set is less than that of refined coins, it is estimated that it is less than 10,000 sets, and the reference price of the whole set is about 45,000 yuan.
Two
Hard cents four little dragons
In addition to the legendary Five Heavenly Kings, there are also coins four little dragons:
The "Four Little Dragons" refers to 1 point in 1955, 1 point in 1957 and 1 point and 2 points in 1992.
Before the founding of new China Chinese Min Bank did not issue coins, after the founding of New China Chinese Min Bank, the first set of coins began to be minted in 1955 and was officially issued on December 1, 1957.
Although the rarity of the Four Little Dragons was inferior to that of the Five Heavenly Kings, each one cost hundreds or even thousands of yuan. Among them, the 1-point collection price in 57 years is the highest, up to more than 1000 yuan / piece! It is followed by 1 point in 55 years, and there are also more than 800 yuan / piece!
Three
Five treasures
In addition to the five heavenly kings and four little dragons mentioned above, there is also a "five treasures":
The "Five Treasures" refer to 5 points in 1955, 2 points and 5 points in 1956, 5 points in 1957 and 1 point in 1959.
The molds of the Five Treasures are well-made, high relief, mirror polishing, like refined coins, and the aesthetics of their art are difficult for any other coin to be out of its right.
The casting of the Five Treasures was in the 1950s, when the amount of casting was extremely limited, and after more than half a century of ups and downs, the amount of existence was even rarer.
The collection value of this kind of hard cent coin is relatively high, but it also breeds counterfeiting, and everyone must be careful when playing with this type of collection!