Fat Liu said with a bit of a smile: "These are all researchers from our old man's Bronze Research Institute. I asked Xiao Han to come to help. I can't shirk it because I am a friend. I hope Boss Hou won't take offense!"
"Haha, what's weird about this? It's difficult for us to buy things because there are so many people?" Hou Mingdong said haha and asked Han Kongque and the others to go in.
When he walked into the yard, Fat Liu squeezed next to Han Peacock and whispered: "Why didn't you tell me in advance? This Hou family brother is not a good person. Many people who trade with him have suffered losses, although it is not accurate.
The news has spread, but you should also have heard about their brothers’ personalities.”
"It's okay, as long as they have the right stuff." Han Kongque had already been wary, so he wasn't too worried. At most, it would just break up.
After entering the house, the Hou brothers poured tea and water. Such enthusiasm made Fat Liu restless.
Han Peacock gave Fat Liu a comforting look and asked him to calm down. He said to Hou Mingxi: "There are many of us, so it's not easy to disturb others here. Why don't we take a look first? After all, there are so many people."
You won’t be able to finish everything in a while, so it’s better to start early.”
"Brother Han is so cheerful. I'm sorry for the poor hospitality. Please come here." With that, Hou Mingdong let Han Peacock and the others into a side room.
There seemed to be an elevator in the corner of the side room. Hou Mingdong opened it, Han Kongque and others all got on it, and soon went down to a basement.
The basement was brightly lit, and there were sword coins placed on the shelves. The entire basement was filled with sword coins. This immediately excited the people brought by Fat Liu.
These people are all researchers from the laboratory of the Fat Liu family. Their research direction is ancient bronzes. Naturally, they are no strangers to knife coins. They will never make mistakes in simple knife coin identification.
"Let's talk about the price first? As long as the price is right, after the experts you invited have completed the appraisal, we can pack it directly." Hou Mingdong said proudly as he looked at the stunned crowd.
Han Peacock looked at the sword coins one by one casually. The patina of these sword coins was very natural, there was absolutely no trace of alkali bite, and they did not look old. The manufacturing process was also exquisite.
Although I didn't take a closer look, these knife coins were not much different from those that Hou Mingxi brought to the antique street.
The sword coins here are obviously divided into three areas, which should be divided according to the Three Kingdoms of Zhao, Qi, and Yan.
Among the bronze coins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, knife-shaped coins were a large type. The main countries that used them were Zhao, Qi and Yan. The shapes of the sword coins used by these three countries were different. They are easy to distinguish.
The characteristic of Zhao Dao is that the blade is thin and straight, also known as "straight knife". The characters are mostly "gandan", "baibai", "chengbai", "baibaihua", "gandanhua" and so on.
The Qi Dao has a wide and thick blade and is the most exquisite type of sword coin in the Warring States Period. It has a thin tip and a large ring, a wide blade and a thick back. Commonly used are the three-character "Qifahua" knife, the four-character "Qi Zhifahua" knife, and the "Anyang" knife.
The patterns on the back are mostly symbols, some with one or two characters.
The quality of Yan's sword coins is between Qi's and Zhao's. Because Yan's swords often have an inscription with the word "Ming" in large seal script, they are commonly called "Yanming's sword" or "Ming's sword".
Yanming knives can be divided into early and late periods. In the early period, the back of the knife was rounded and in the late period, the back of the knife was squarely folded. This is a sign of difference between the two periods.
There are many types here, including Qi Dao, Jimo Dao, Anyang Dao, Needle Shou Dao, Jian Shou Dao, Yuan Shou Dao and Ming Dao etc.
These bronze knife coins are not handed down from ancient times as Hou Mingxi said. A large part of them were unearthed from raw pits. However, although these were unearthed from raw pits, they are still old. These are from the rust of the bronze.
You can tell it by the color.
Shengkeng bronzes can be divided into two types based on their rust color: one is the Shengkeng bronzes that have just been unearthed or have not been unearthed for a long time. The main feature is that the rust color on the surface is relatively "tender" and "floating", and the color is relatively pure and bright.
Another kind of pit was unearthed for a long time, but it has not been touched and rubbed. The rust color on the surface is covered by a layer of patina, making the color deep and dull.
These bronze sword coins obviously belong to the latter type. Although these sword coins have not been played with and look a bit dull, each of these sword coins is in good condition.
Just after a brief look, Han Kongque knew that the owner of these sword coins was definitely careful.
Every knife coin here is placed in an orderly manner. Where Yan knives are placed, they are all Yan knives, and where Qi knives are placed, they are all Qi knives.
Each type of knife coin has a clear division, which makes Han Peacock look very convenient.
Referring to the catalog provided by Hou Mingdong, Han Kongque briefly browsed the knife coins in this room. The knife coins here were exactly the same as the information provided by Hou Mingdong.
"How is it? Are you satisfied?" Hou Mingdong said with a smile.
Han Kongque made some calculations and said: "The items are very good, but the price is a bit exaggerated. Just like the Ming Dao, is it a bit expensive based on two thousand yuan?"
Fat Liu, who was carefully inspecting a fixed knife, heard this and immediately said: "It's not a little expensive, it's very expensive. Generally, a square folding knife only costs 500 yuan, which is a lot."
After hearing this, Hou Mingdong was not annoyed or argued, but laughed and said: "We are all in the industry, and I won't lie. I will just follow what you said. As long as the square folding knife is of good quality,
The total amount is five hundred, and the folding knife can be counted as two thousand, right? Three hundred and fifty thousand for a set of pocket knives is not high, right? If agreed, we can start the appraisal transaction."
"Okay, Brother Liu, please calculate the value, and others can help with the appraisal." Han Kongque said.
Hou Mingdong said: "Happy, I have our old man's collection record here. The source of every knife coin in this room is clearly recorded. If you don't believe it, you can check it, so...
"
Of course it would be better to have this thing. After all, it was made from a raw pit. If there is a clear inheritance, Han Peacock will save a lot of trouble: "Boss Hou is very interesting. In this way, if there is any objection to the price, the highest price will be used."
"Okay, so there will be no problem with our business this time." Hou Mingdong said happily.
If Han Peacock doesn’t care about the price, then the business will be easy to negotiate. Just like the Ming Dao, it is the most common type of knife coins. Nowadays, square folding knives are the main ones, while round folding knives are less common. The price of square folding knives is now about
It costs about 500 yuan, and a folding knife costs about 2,000 yuan.
Such prices fluctuate up and down. It does not mean that all square folding knives are more than 500 yuan. Of course, the same is true for round folding knives.
Now Han Peacock doesn't care about it. These sword coins have a general price. Since they are calculated based on the highest price, the value of this batch of sword coins is easy to calculate.
Soon, with the help of Fat Liu, the prices were marked on the back of the knife and coin catalog. Although these prices were a bit high, considering that this was a complete set, the higher price was justifiable. After all, there were so many knife coins alone.
It takes a lot of effort to collect it, which is not something ordinary people can persist in.
With the price in mind, the total price is easy to calculate. After calculating it three times, the total value of this batch of knife coins is a little over 12.38 million. After removing the fractions, Hou Mingdong only needs 12.38 million.
Han Peacock recognized this figure, and the deal was concluded.
"Then let's inspect the goods! Our people won't do anything, your people will do the appraisal. After the appraisal is completed, our people will pack it and your people will be responsible for keeping it. Is that okay?" Hou Mingdong decided.
Han Kongque said: "No problem, let's start?"
"Let's begin!" Hou Mingdong was very happy that it went so well.
At this time, the dozen or so people brought by Fat Liu came into play. Nearly 20,000 sword coins were appraised by more than a dozen people, each of whom had to appraise thousands of coins. Fortunately, many of the sword coins were first-spot goods and were highly valued.
The value is not too high, and their appraisal speed is not too slow.
Of course, ordinary sword coins did not need to be appraised by Han Peacock. The ones he appraised were all worth more than 2,000 yuan, and these totaled only more than 1,000 yuan.
However, the identification of these thousand pieces took a long time. He first looked at each Korean Peacock, and then used random inspection methods to select half of them for detailed identification. It took him more than six hours to finish reading.
Fortunately, most of these knife coins are of the same type. You only need to take out half of them and identify them carefully. For other similar knife coins, you only need to compare them with the ones that have been identified.
If each piece needs to be identified in detail, let alone six hours, even sixty hours, the identification may not be completed.
This is also because the identification method of bronze ware is relatively simple, and the value of the sword coins is not high after all. If you want to fake it on a large scale, it is not that easy.
A total of sixteen of them appraised it together. If there were fakes in it, how could they get one? As long as they identified one with a problem, they would have to be careful.
Fortunately, the two Hou Mingdong brothers did not cause trouble. Han Kongque spent six hours appraising the coins and found that there was no problem with any of them. He could see that every sword coin here was a carefully selected treasure.
This made Han Kongque feel relieved. Because the identification took too long, they had a lunch box in the middle.
There is no way, Hou Mingdong and the others will definitely not let anyone take these things out without completing the transaction.
If Han Kongque and the others leave, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents, and the things they have identified will not be safe, so they can only work overtime to identify them as soon as possible.
Han Kongque completed his task and began to randomly check the knife coins that had been identified, so as to eliminate the possibility of being deceived.
The complete identification took a total of more than ten hours. By this time, everyone was very tired, but everyone was relieved. After all, there was no accident in the whole process.
There are so many sword coins, but there is no objection to any of them, which is enough to illustrate the quality of this batch of sword coins.
Looking at the fourteen iron boxes one meter long and fifty centimeters high, Han Peacock felt very excited, but he also saw the excitement of brother Hou Mingdong.
"There are too many goods, I don't know how you want to transport them?" Hou Mingdong said.