A treasure-appraisal maniac

After struggling for nearly a night, Lu Fei finally opened the Luban box made by Guo Chong.

A few hours of hard work, Lu Fei's work was not in vain, the objects collected inside gave Lu Fei a big surprise.

These are two peerless treasures that are astonishing to the sky, legendary in Quan Tan, and the "Da Qi Tong Bao" that opens the door.

Seeing these two Da Qi Tong Bao, Lu Fei was extremely excited.

Two Daqi Tongbao, the money pattern is slender and clear, neat and powerful.

Broad margin, flat back, light yellow color.

The diameter is about 22.5 mm, the thickness is about 0.8 mm, and the weight is 3 grams. These are standard data and there will be no errors.

Daqi Tongbao was cast by Xu Zhigao (Li Min), the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Li Min was once the adopted son of Xu Wen, so he was named Xu Zhigao. He was named King of Qi by Xu Wen. In the third year of Yang Wu Tianzuo, Xu Wen deposed Emperor Wu Rui and established himself. The country was named Daqi and the Daqi Tongbao was cast.

Due to the short-lived Daqi Kingdom, the finished products cast by Daqi Tongbao were pitiful. .??.

After the fall of Da Qi, the few Da Qi Tong Bao were melted down and recast into coins of the new dynasty. Those that survived were simply rare.

So far, there are only two Daqi Tongbao extant.

One has a missing corner on the upper right corner, which is called "missing corners" in the coin industry. The other coin has four small holes drilled in it, which is called "four eyes".

"The Missing Corner Daqi" was collected by Dai Xi, a famous local tycoon in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty.

At that time, countless Quantan enthusiasts spent all their money to buy this "missing corner Daqi".

Dai Xi is a super rich man, and the most important thing he lacks is money.

So no matter who comes or what conditions are offered, Dai Xi will ignore them.

Not only are they not sold, they are not even shown.

Later, Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom invaded Hangzhou. Dai Xi, who was very visionary, looked down on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom bumpkins at all.

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To look down upon is to look down upon, and at the same time Dai Xi cannot afford to offend others.

If you can’t have both, what should you do?

Just die.

So, Dai Xi, the stubborn donkey, abandoned his fortune and threw himself into a lake. He was so willful.

A few years later, folklore said that before Dai Xi died, he buried the missing horn Daqi deep in the ground.

When the news was released, it immediately shocked Jiangnan.

The first person to take action was Li Yin, a wealthy businessman from Jiangnan.

Li Yin spent 9,000 taels of silver to buy Dai Xi's house and hired people to work on it for days. Even after digging three feet into the house, he could not find all the missing corners.

However, Li Yin did not lose money, and then sold Dai Xi's house to Yan Fu, a wealthy businessman in Guangxi, for a sky-high price of sixteen thousand taels.

Yan Fu struggled inside and outside the house for two years, but returned without success.

In the following years, people looking for the missing Daqi came one after another. At the peak, Dai Xi's house was sold to a sky-high price of 21,000 taels.

As a result, no one could be found.

Until the 1960s, Mr. Cao Gongsheng, a master of Jiangnan calligraphy, donated the missing corners to the National Museum.

Only then did people realize that this legendary missing horn was not buried in the ground at all.

But before Dai Xilin committed suicide, he gave it to his friend Cao An, the father of Mr. Cao Gongsheng.

Another "Four Eyes Together" appeared in the Republic of China.

On April 2, the 13th year of the Republic of China, ancient coin merchants Dai Baoting and Zhu Kezhuang got this valuable Daqi Tongbao from two children's shuttlecocks when they were walking in an alley in Poyang, Jiangxi.

This Daqi Tongbao was artificially punched with four holes for binding shuttlecocks, so it is called the "Four-Eyed Daqi Tongbao".

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Not long after, this four-eyed coin was sold by Dai Baoting to Mr. Zhang Shuxun, a master of ancient coins collecting in Shanghai, for five hundred oceans.

At that time, five hundred days could be sold for 40,000 kilograms of rice, which was enough to feed a family of five for five years.

It can be said that this transaction record was an out-and-out sky-high price at the time.

However, in the eyes of Mr. Zhang Shuxun, this is the biggest mistake he has made in his life.

After getting the four-eyed Qi, Mr. Zhang Shuxun gave himself the nickname "Qi Zhai."

It is precisely because of this four-eye coin that Mr. Zhang Shuxun is called one of the three great collectors of ancient coins in China.

In 1938, Zhang Shuxun's family went to the United States due to the Japanese invasion. Before leaving, all his coin collection and business affairs were entrusted to his sister Zhang Zhizai.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Shuxun returned to Shanghai in 1946 to handle many of his accounts and property, and returned to the United States four months later.

Before leaving, he took more than two thousand of his best ancient coins to the United States.

More than two thousand ancient coins are the best in his collection, including the famous orphan "Four Eyes".

Unfortunately, not long after returning to the United States, Mr. Zhang Shuxun passed away due to illness.

The old man was gone, and his prodigal daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xu, sold Mr. Zhang's life collection to an American collector whose Chinese name was Dai Jitao.

After Dai Jitao became famous, his children founded the Dai Jitao Foundation and the Dai Jitao Private Collection Museum.

The ancient coins that the prodigal Xu sold to Mr. Zhang are listed in the coefficients, but there is no trace of the four eyes.

In order to have all four eyes together, Kong Fanlong negotiated with Dai Jitao's descendants many times, hoping to buy it back with a large sum of money.

As a result, not only did the goal not be achieved, but even the four-eyed shadow

None seen.

At this point, the four great treasures of China disappeared from the world.

It can be said responsibly that if Lu Fei took out these two Da Qi Tong Bao, it would definitely shock the world.

How the Guo family obtained these two Daqitong treasures is also a mystery.

But what Lu Fei can be sure of is that these two precious treasures are definitely genuine.

Moreover, after Guo Chong's treatment, the surface patina was cleaned quite well without damaging the patina at all. It can be said to be perfect.

Holding two Daqi Tongbao in his hand, Lu Fei was extremely excited as he felt the simplicity of the coins.

Strictly speaking, the significance of these two Daqitong treasures is far greater than that of Fenghua Ru porcelain.

The heavy Yuan blue and white can't compare with it, not even the Yaobian Tianmu bowl.

Because these two coins are the only complete pair known in the world.

Counting the two disabled ones, the missing-cornered Daqi and the four-eyed Daqi, there are only four of them in the world. They can be said to be well-deserved priceless treasures.

After only one day in Tiandu City, I got the rare and important treasure Taihe Vase, and the two most important treasures, the Da Qi Tong Bao.

I also got the only memory from my previous life, "Immortal Life Buddha Picture". It can be said that it is full of rewards!

Under the desk lamp, Lu Fei couldn't put it down and played with the two Daqi Tongbao, admiring every texture. Lu Fei couldn't help but laugh.

After a long time, Lu Fei packed the two Daqi Tongbao with the original deerskin and put them back into the Luban box.

Then I wrapped the Luban box with high-density sponge and put it into the brocade box. Only then did I feel relieved.

After struggling all day and night, Lu Fei, who was highly nervous, suddenly relaxed and fell asleep immediately.

At this point, Lu Fei didn't bother to wash up. He didn't even take off his clothes and went to bed and fell asleep.