Chapter 8 The mysterious little money
The "little head" that shocked the world, the "little head" of the ancient city gate, should have appeared in public for the first time around 2012. There was a blurred photo of the lion head in a Zhejiang diving magazine. It was a few years later. It is said that the Chun'an Tourism Bureau has plans to build a glass tunnel at the bottom of Qiandao Lake. Visitors can directly see the thousand-year-old "little head" through this tunnel at the bottom of the lake.
But it was just a plan. It has been so many years since this has passed, and I haven't even seen the tunnel gate. If one day it really repairs the tunnel at the bottom of the lake, I guess there may be no fewer tourists in that place than those who go to Xi'an to see the Terracotta Warriors.
Brother Yu’s water quality is similar to mine. Due to the low water temperature, my swimming speed gradually slowed down.
When I put my hands on the blue bricks of the ancient city gate, my excitement was beyond words.
This is a world forgotten by modern people. There must be countless treasures left over from the city, just like Pandora under the water. Whoever finds it first and whoever opens it first will get rich overnight.
At that time, people who were using the HS series metal positioning detectors produced by Guangdong small workshops were generally used. There was a leather cover at the front and connected with a metal hose in the middle. The appearance looked like an old desk lamp, which could react to gold, silver and iron. Because it was designed to explore treasures underwater, it was waterproof all over the body. After detecting things, the handle would continue to vibrate, which was used to send a reminder.
Douyazai has the best water quality. He swam around the ancient city gate with a detector. Douyazai waved his hand to indicate that the detector had reacted, so Brother Yu and I swam over to help.
The bottom of the lake is full of silt and the visibility is not high. After Douyazi was positioned, Yu Ge and I touched it with a small spool, and the water would instantly become turbid and would not dissipate in a short period of time, which would greatly affect our vision.
Toothpaste skin, cans, rotten iron wire, at first we touched all these things, Douyazi was obviously anxious. If he hadn't been able to speak in the water, I would have been sure he would have cursed.
I asked Douyazi to stay calm and not be messed up because I knew that underwater search was a meticulous job, and I might miss a large item if I was not careful.
Suddenly, I touched it in the silt layer
I immediately lowered my head and shone it with a blue light, and I saw that it was an "iron coin".
It is not a copper coin, you can recognize it at a glance as the material. Because the puddle does not like rust, you can see the text of the coin after a little washing.
"Chuxi Yuanbao."
Turning over, there is actually a word "Yong" behind it.
I made a judgment in my mind at the first time. This was a small flat iron coin from the Southern Song Dynasty. It was worthless in the market and I guess I couldn't even exchange a steamed bun.
Then in this "silt area", we relied on the metal detector to take out six such small iron coins. Not all, but finally Brother Yu touched a "iron stick" that was half a meter long.
This iron rod is actually a row of "small iron coins" that stick together. After hundreds of years of underwater oxidation, a stick is formed.
The lake water is too low, so we can't take more than forty minutes in a single time, otherwise we may get a temperature loss, so we immediately floated up decisively. During this period, I accidentally turned back and looked at the city gate.
I vaguely saw a naked woman standing at the city gate. The "woman" had very long hair, and all her hair was dragged to the ground, completely covering her entire face.
I couldn't rub my eyes with an oxygen mask. I shook my head hard and looked at it. The woman was gone again. There was only a large ball of black aquatic plants swaying with the water flowing.
Brother Yu thought I was drunk, so he swam over and wanted to pull me. I hurriedly broke away from Brother Yu's hand and said that he was fine.
Hell, what is that thing at the city gate? Maybe my head is lacking in oxygen and I think of water plants as a woman. After I came up, I mentioned this casually. Brother Yu and Douyazai said that he didn't see anything.
"How
What, what are you getting?" asked.
Douyazai said dejectedly, "Oh! Don't mention your head! We have found the city gate! But we are not lucky! We will get a few broken copper coins!"
I corrected Dou Yazai's words and said, "It's not a copper coin! It's an iron coin, it should be from the Southern Song Dynasty! It's not worth it."
He said, "Don't be discouraged, it's a good start to receive the goods. Take it to me and take it."
Douyazi immediately handed the small iron coin to his head.
Frowning his head, "This iron coin is a bit strange, I haven't seen it before,"
"Not strange, I'm the one who is the Xiaoping iron coins from the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was mainly circulated in the southern region, with the largest number in Sichuan."
He seemed to have not heard me, and he stared at Xiao Tieqian, frowning deeper and deeper.
I have seen countless storms and scenes in my first life. I guess even if the golden jade clothes are placed in front of me, I wouldn't be too excited. But now I look at a small iron coin and show a confusion expression, which makes me unable to understand the situation.
"Yunfeng, are you looking carefully. Are you sure this was from the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty?" He asked me back.
After taking a closer look, my heart was shocked in an instant.
I'm wrong!
The face of this little iron coins is not "Chunxi", but "Chunxi"! It is pure and pure!
This is very abnormal. This is a coin beyond my understanding. Things are 100% real, patina, rust, craftsmanship, and all aspects are real.
I understand copper coins, but ancient coins are not my expertise. My expertise is bronze, porcelain, jade and miscellaneous items. This kind of pure ingot is the first time I have seen this pure ingot and I. I have never heard of it before, and it cannot even be divided in a short period of time. Intuition tells me that this is probably the first thing I have been published, and it may be a creative product in the ancient coins world.
I want to search for relevant information on my mobile phone, and the results
There is no signal from the mobile dream network on the island. We originally planned to send someone back to the town tomorrow, so we had to charge our mobile phones and buy gas cylinders.
While it was late at night, Douyazai and I drove a small boat away from the island overnight to the fishing village town in the central lake area. We asked me to stay in the fishing village for two days, because the people who sent the echo ducks were almost here, so I met with people in the fishing village to meet the ducks.
At that time, the fishing village had a characteristic, which was that there were many Internet cafes, and they were open 24 hours a day. There were about 40 Internet cafes in a small town, such as Deep Blue Internet Cafe, Aqiang Internet Cafe, and Jike Internet Cafe, which are all very famous in the local area.
I searched the Internet for a long time and found iron coins similar to our "Pure Chun Yuanbao". Why do I say it is similar? Because it is not exactly the same, the small iron coins on the information are "same" in the information, and the batch we have obtained is "yong".
By looking up relevant historical materials, I learned that the reign title of "Chunxi" was indeed from the Southern Song Dynasty, but it only took six days. From confirming the reign title to ordering the minting of coins, the official once cast a kind of iron coin with the same back as Chunxi. The actual total minting period may be about three days, and it was abandoned and changed to the "Chunxi" that people are familiar with now.
When we got this kind of iron coin, I guess it might be another variety that was minted within those three days, which is definitely the first time in China.
Realizing that something big happened, I immediately called Meimei.
"Come on, hurry up!"
Meimei may still be asleep, but no one answered the phone.
At this moment, the Internet administrator of the Internet cafe suddenly patted me from behind, which immediately scared me.
"What are you doing?" I asked in confusion.
The Internet cafe is a young man in his twenties. He held a cigarette in his hand and said to me, "Brother! It's not raining outside! Why are your shoes wet? Look at you step on them for me."
Chapter completed!