A copper coin
Text/Han Young-min
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In the spring of 2022, although the epidemic has cast a shadow on people's lives, the breath of spring is still coming, such as the fire of kapok, such as the peony flower of Xia, and the moon flower of jade. I also bathed in the spring breeze and visited the famous mountains and rivers of my motherland. What makes me even more comfortable is that my friend told me a very beautiful story, which made my mood even more pleasant.
One day, a friend called me and said he was both excited and happy. I was touched by a small quality, and I was happy that a copper coin that had been lost for decades was lost and recovered.
It goes back to when my friend was a kid. The friend's neighbor is in a difficult situation, the five brothers and sisters and their parents live in a low three-room house, and the friend and the old five are similar in age and often play together.
Once, a friend and a few young classmates played a game of copper coins. It is to take the copper coin and bump it against the wall to see who stumbles the money and runs farther, and the farthest runner wins. The winner has to help the loser jump the "Trojan Horse".
Coincidentally, it was the turn of the old five to throw impartially to the wall, and threw the copper coin into the narrow blank crack. The fifth elder hurried home to find wire and other tools, and tried to hook the copper coin out of the crack of the billet, but the result was that he got more and more inward, and finally he couldn't see it. For this reason, the friend cried a lot, and ignored the old five for several days, because the wall was the old five's family, and the friend thought that the old five was deliberate. Old Fifth really didn't know the explanation since he was a child.
Copper money is a friend's grandmother to the mother's dowry, is a big money, good at that time did not take copper money as a baby, friends' mother did not ask, slowly this matter will be forgotten, friends and the old five are as good as ever.
Later, my friend was admitted to college, got married and had children, and settled in the county. The fifth has been working in the family farm, with diligence and character, married in his thirties, and the next year he had a son. After the death of his parents, he inherited the old house.
Time flies, and decades have passed. With the implementation of the party's policy of benefiting farmers, gratifying changes have taken place in the rural areas. "Grain warehouses are full, oil tanks are full, and every house is building new houses." The fifth elder watched his son grow up day by day, and he also moved his mind to build a new house. However, due to the poor health of the family and the son's schooling, the burden of life fell on the old Wuyi. To this end, in addition to planting land, he also planted vegetable greenhouses, and his life became richer and richer every year. So it was decided to build a new house this spring.
The strange thing is that when the house is demolished, the wall facing the street, the fifth old man will not let the demolition, even the son will not let move, others think there is something exquisite. When he was nearly sixty years old, he removed the adobe piece by piece until he found the copper coin, and then let the people remove the rest of the wall.
It turned out that the matter of copper money had been installed in the heart of the old five for decades. Although I don't say it on my lips, I always remember to find this copper coin when I demolish the house. Now that the copper coin was found, his heart fell to the ground, and he hurried to the county town to send the copper coin to a friend's home. The copper coin is small, the quality of the old fifth is commendable, and this copper coin is also inside the wall, silently witnessing the great changes in rural life.
I hurried to my friend's house to see that this copper coin was not an ordinary copper coin, but a xianfeng yuanbao as a hundred samples, and the value was not wrong. It is equivalent to the old five saving a sum of money in the wall for a friend, and more importantly, a delicate copper coin is completely preserved.
During the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he was "worried about internal and external troubles", paid compensation for the external land, and was harsh on the people internally. However, it is undeniable that the Xianfeng big money minted by the Xianfeng Dynasty is indeed very exquisite, and has always been favored by collectors, and is known as the "King of Qing Money" by the collection community. This Xianfeng yuanbao of the friend is one of the hundred samples, belonging to one of the Xianfeng big coins, the minting year is Xianfeng three years or Xianfeng four years, and the minting place includes the Central Mint and the newly added Baode Bureau, Baosu Bureau, Kashgar Bureau, Copper Donation Bureau, etc.
Friend This Xianfeng Yuanbao belongs to the Baosu Bureau, with a diameter of 60 mm, a thickness of 3.3 mm, and a weight of 54.3 grams. It has been collected by friends as an heirloom.
【About the Author】Han Yingmin, a gaotang from Shandong, a member of the Chinese Essay Literature Society and a member of the China Collectors Association, likes to collect pots and literature, and "pot words and pot language" in the text.