Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

In underground markets, it is true that there are more shops than stalls.

The store was brightly lit inside, but it looked a bit cold and dark outside.

There are not as many tourists in this place as outside, so it feels a bit deserted.

The doors of the shop are all made of wood and maintain their antique style.

There was a blue-tinted fluorescent lamp on inside.

When I walked into a store, I saw a wooden counter covered with a layer of glass. Through the glass, I could see the exhibits inside.

Inside, there are many currencies from the Republic of China era.

Currency during the Republic of China was mainly divided into banknotes and silver coins.

The number of banknotes placed inside is relatively large.

"Such a large amount of banknotes? Only selling for 20 yuan?" Guan Yun found it difficult to understand.

Lin Ran smiled and said: "These banknotes are worthless."

He gave a negative answer.

During this period, many ordinary people who had never participated in collecting had some spare money and began to think about investing in collectibles.

They became the targets of some antique dealers.

Because they have no experience, antique dealers compile some wealth news through newspapers, which will write some very exaggerated stories, such as an ordinary farmer who made a huge fortune by selling the currency left by his ancestors and became a local household worth ten thousand yuan. .

In the early 80s, ordinary people simply did not have the ability to verify the authenticity of news.

They are also relatively simple and believe that most of the things in newspapers are true.

Therefore, there was a boom in coin trading.

During the Republic of China, coins had the largest number and became the darling of the market.

For a while, it was even sold at a high price of more than 200 yuan.

However, collectors across the country had more exchanges in later generations, and they came to the answer that the banknotes of the Republic of China had no collection value.

The main reason is that in the later period, the currencies issued in various places were different and there was no uniformity.

After all, they were independent of each other at that time. In order to expand their influence, each place would over-issue its own currency, resulting in a large number of currencies on the market.

After several wars, a large amount of silver was paid to foreign countries.

The number of silver coins issued has been greatly reduced. Correspondingly, it is easier to obtain paper, so the over-issued currency is mainly paper money.

Paper money is cheaper to make and easier to carry, which makes paper money a material for currency making in many places.

Issuing a large amount of currency leads to inflation, making money less and less valuable, which turns banknotes into a pile of waste paper.

It didn’t have the purchasing power at the time, but after that time, it became more hyped.

That is to say, the transaction volume is large now, so it seems valuable.

After a while, if no one takes over, the price will fall.

Lin Ping explained to Guan Yun while looking at the currency on the counter.

Luo Yu nodded, agreeing with Lin Ran's opinion.

They wandered inside for a while and then the shop owner came over.

"Boss, what currency do you want to buy? Let me recommend it to you."

"No, I want to see the stamps." Luo Yu said.

Lin Ran was a little surprised. Luo Yu took him to see the stamps today?

Although he is a treasure appraiser, his research on stamps is not in-depth enough.

When he was studying and working, stamp collecting was an exclusive hobby for wealthy people, and he had never had this experience.

But I do know something about stamps.

Mainly through newspapers and magazines, which will introduce some rare stamps.

The value of stamps mainly depends on three aspects.

Timeless, rare, and artistic.

Nowadays, the main thing in circulation on the market is the one-cent stamp, which can be used to write letters across cities.

If you want to send it further, you have to use a five-cent stamp.

As early as the 60s, the mainland began to issue stamps.

Every year, some stamps are issued according to the zodiac theme. Some people with investment awareness put the stamps at home early and framed them.

Now we have finally caught up with the good times. In the national collection craze, stamps have also become one of them.

The paper used for early stamps was relatively plain and would become damaged if it was slightly damp or damaged by external force.

This kind of stamp has a long history and a small inventory, so its value is higher than that of new stamp collection.

Moreover, around the 80s, the Internet had just been born and telephones were not widely available.

The main method of communication is letters.

The purpose of stamps is to deliver letters.

Most people throw away the postmarked envelope after receiving the letter, so stamps are considered a consumable item.

About 1000 million stamps are issued every year, but writing a letter consumes more than 900 million, and the other more than 100 million are often damaged.

Therefore, stamps older than the 80s do have certain collection value.

It's just like currency.

They are made of paper and have no value of their own.

When stamps gradually fade out of people's sight, people who collect stamps mainly do it for hobbies and cannot pawn them directly like antiques when they are in urgent need of money.

For this reason, Lin Ran had not seen many stamps, so he did not study them in depth.

"Boss, you also collect stamps? Then you've come to the right place!" The shopkeeper seemed very attentive and took them to a counter.

Lin Ran and the others looked inside and saw only a patch of red.

It turned out to be a full version of the Monkey Ticket issued in 80, also known as the Gengshen Year Monkey Ticket.

This set of monkey stamps is quite valuable to stamp collectors.

Because they are the first set of stamps with zodiac signs issued by China Post and were issued on February 1980, 2.

Lin Ran still remembers that in 2011, at an auction in Beijing, a set of monkey tickets, including twelve actions, was sold for a high price of 130 million yuan.

It created the legend of increasing the value of stamps and was also the leader in stamp transactions. Since then, there has been no news of stamps being sold at high prices.

In 1980, the total circulation of monkey tickets was 500 million.

In fact, because of all aspects of transportation.

As a result, the circulation volume that finally appeared on the market was around 320 million.

"Boss, what do you think of this set of golden monkey stamps?" the store manager asked with a smile.

Luo Yu said nothing, as if waiting for Lin Ran's suggestion.

No wonder he said that he no longer knew anything about treasure appraisal. The test was not about his understanding of antiques, but his vision for the future.

I dare to think of myself as a consultant.

"This set of stamps will definitely appreciate in value in the future." The shop owner boasted beside him.

In fact, Lin Ran may have a superficial understanding of other stamps.

But he actually studied the 80 monkey ticket.

Because this set of stamps is valuable, there are endless imitations among the private sector, which are called fake stamps.

Speaking of these forgers, Lin Ran felt that they must have been influenced by the secret art of treasure appraisal, because their method was to cut out the corresponding parts of other commemorative stamps in the mainland, re-glue them, and use other methods to make them look old. Finally, it was put on the market to look like the real thing.