"The Yuan Dynasty was the heyday of paper money in ancient Chinese history. Mongolia during the Genghis Khan era used silver for commercial circulation. Later, influenced by the Song and Jin Dynasties, paper money began to be issued in the occupied areas. In the first year of Zhongtong, which was 1260, suddenly
After Bili ascended the throne, he issued silk-based banknotes, and in October further
The "Zhongtong Yuanbao Banknote" was launched. When this kind of banknote was first issued, it was based on silver. Anyone holding a Zhongtong banknote could exchange it for silver at the official treasury at the silver price. In the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, 1285
Since then, silver coins have been banned from being sold on the market across the country, and the 'Zhongtong Yuanbao Banknote' has become the only legal currency in circulation in the country."
Luo Tian talked about the origin of Zhongtong Yuanbao, and Shangguan Fei closed his eyes: "Just tell me the market price. Even if you don't tell me, I can still know."
"Okay," Luo Tian spread his hands. He originally wanted to ease Shangguan Fei's mood, but now it seems that it is no longer necessary: "Seal script and regular script are in pairs, the writing is beautiful, and there are very few surviving ones. The market price of regular script is 10,000 yuan, and the market price of seal script is 10,000 yuan.
The price is 20,000 yuan. I took a look at the box just now and found that it was about half and half seal and regular script. As for the quantity, everyone has seen it, so I won’t say anything."
Shangguan Fei wailed. In fact, he was not the only one. The onlookers all felt inexplicably heartbroken and lamented when they saw so many Zhongtong Yuanbao disappearing. As for King Suo, he felt vaguely gloating at the thought of Shangguan Fei being rude to him just now.
"It's okay, there are other boxes, Suo Wang, please open them all and take a look at them one by one." Shao Bing ordered.
"Easy to handle." King Suo opened three boxes in a row. Among the three boxes, two boxes contained porcelain, and one box actually contained a mirror!
The porcelain in the box was somewhat damaged. Before Shangguan Fei had a seizure, Luo Tian said: "These signs of wear and damage are old and were not caused during the salvage today. In my opinion, they were caused when the ship sank."
No matter what, if the condition is incomplete, the value is reduced by half, which is still a pity. Moreover, the porcelain inside is all Yuan blue and white.
Yuan blue and white porcelain is represented by Jingdezhen. It is exquisitely made and rarely handed down, so it is extremely precious. According to the time, it can be roughly divided into three stages: Yanyou period, Zhizheng period and late Yuan period. Among them, "Zhizheng type" is the best.
There are several types of Yuan blue and white patterns that are more standardized, thus forming the characteristics of Yuan Dynasty decoration: deformed lotus petals, commonly known as "eight big numbers", regardless of round shape, cutters often use 8 lotus petals as decorative bands, each petal is
Painting inside
There are a variety of patterns, including flowers, clouds, flames, miscellaneous treasures, etc. The painting method of lotus petals is more obvious in the Yuan Dynasty style. A thick line and a thin line are used to outline the outline in parallel, and each petal is not connected.
, leaving a certain gap.
In the Yuan Dynasty, floral decorations were mostly dominated by lotuses and peonies, followed by chrysanthemums. The painting forms of the flowers and leaves of these three flowers were relatively fixed. The peony leaves were plump and pointed and braided; the lotus leaves were in the shape of double wings.
The leaves are gourd-shaped; the flowers and leaves of chrysanthemum are five-forked leaves. The three flowers are not full of color but have naturally white edges.
Gardenia is a unique pattern among Yuan blue and white flowers. The five-petal-shaped flowers and leaf-like twining flowers are often used as borders. Experts have confirmed that this flower is also known as the mushroom flower, and it is said to be the flower favored by Buddha. It is found on the outer walls of most blue and white plates and on bottles and jars.
The shoulders are decorated with entwining lotus patterns, and six lotus flowers are more common on the outer wall of the plate.
There are often blue and white cloud patterns on the shoulders of bottles and jars, which are called "cloud shoulders". The cloud patterns are often decorated with seahorses, sea lilies, branch flowers, linlins, etc., also known as hanging cloud patterns, which are very distinctive decorations on blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty.
, rare in other eras.
A two-dimensional continuous pattern composed of waves and sea water, with thick solid lines outlining the waves in the sea water pattern drawn by thin lines to form a wave pattern, forming a distinctive sea water pattern of the Yuan Dynasty.
Banana leaf patterns are often used as edges or decorative strips between patterns. The painting method pays attention to using thick lines to depict the edges of the banana leaves, and then using thin lines to depict the veins.
Luo Tian took out some complete Yuan blue and white flowers and said: "It seems that this batch of Yuan blue and white porcelain is all with a mark. There are very few Yuan blue and white porcelains with a mark. The value of the Yuan blue and white porcelain with a mark can double, although the remaining
There are not many Yuan blue and white flowers in complete condition, but these are also valuable."
Hong Luo saw Luo Tian deliberately comforting Shangguan Fei when explaining, and his affection for Luo Tian became stronger. When he was in the UK, Hong Luo thought Luo Tian had a good personality and was willing to make friends with him.
Now it seems that his sixth sense is correct. Luo Tian is indeed a nice person. How many people at the scene like Shangguan Fei? It is rare that Luo Tian can treat Shangguan Fei like this.
In fact, what Hong Luo didn't know was that Luo Tian didn't deliberately try to comfort Shangguan Fei, but just emphasized the basis of reality.
As for the mirror in the last box, it was a bronze mirror inlaid with gold, silver and gems. The gold, silver and gems were all inlaid on the edge. Luo Tian didn't quite understand why Kublai Khan kept this mirror. Could it be because of the above
Inlay? This mirror is erected and installed in the braid, so
Because of the age, the braid and the bronze mirror were tightly bonded together, leaving clear weaving marks on the bronze mirror. Seeing this mark, Luo Tian had an idea: "Mr. Shangguan, these cultural relics have
If you need to clean up or repair various levels of damage and stains, you can come to me.”
Shangguan Fei remained silent and did not comment.
King Suo opened a few more boxes. The contents of these boxes were very straightforward. They were all gold nuggets. Although the size was not as large as the gold nuggets in the largest box, adding up all these boxes, according to the current market price of gold
That's a huge sum of money...
Apart from the big box, there were only three boxes left, all of which had just been salvaged. One of them had been found by King Suo first. When the box was opened, there were six gold bowls, eight gold goblets, and one
Each piece of gold crown ornament is of fine workmanship. The gold bowl is not much different from modern bowls, but there are eight gold goblets, which are very characteristic of ethnic minorities.
The eight golden goblets are all open-mouthed and retracted from the straight belly to the lower part. The high legs are shaped like inverted trumpets. The rim of the mouth and the high legs are respectively engraved with flower stamen patterns, but the top four are in the shape of lotus petals.
For the lotus flower, the mouth rim and the base of the high foot are all in a fancy shape; for the other four, the chrysanthemum petals are shaped like chrysanthemums, with the mouth rim and bottom edge being smooth circles.
Gold and silverware is a very special category among antiques. When collecting gold and silverware, you must first seek authenticity. If you collect fakes, their value will be greatly reduced. However, gold and silverware has its own special characteristics. Because of its precious raw materials, the value of fakes will be greatly reduced.
If the production level is indeed extremely high, then it will have considerable value over time. Luo Tian closed this box and walked to the other two boxes. These are the last two boxes. What treasures will be inside?