After electronic payments gradually occupied people's payment methods, the use of paper money became less efficient, after all, electronic money is much safer and more convenient than paper money. However, there are also some people who still use paper money, because the development of the Internet has led to the rise of many online frauds, and the money they cheat is electronic money, and they can cheat a lot of money without face-to-face. Paper money does not have this trouble, because it has to be traded in person, so in addition to the theft of paper money, few people will defraud paper money, so it is easy to be caught. But with the development of the economy, the value of money is not set in stone, and the crazy rise in prices clearly reflects the fact that money is constantly depreciating. At this time, only those precious metals are items that will never lose their value.
Gold is one of them, the ancients liked to reserve a lot of gold for reserve, and most of the results were found by posterity and handed over to the country. The cowherd once picked up "chocolate" by the river, and experts identified it as a national treasure 2500 years ago, estimated at hundreds of millions of yuan. So what's going on? As a hard currency, gold will not lose its value at any time, and it is also a good preservation of value. Therefore, many rich people like to buy gold and store it, which is common in both ancient and modern times. The only difference is that the gold that has been handed down from ancient times to the present day not only has its own value, but also has been given a strong historical value, so its price is far beyond ordinary gold, which is an incomparably precious national treasure.
In 2007, in a river in Dafeng County, Jiangsu Province, a large amount of gold was discovered, but the discoverer was a group of children. It was the summer of 2007, the hottest time of the year, and the heat of the weather made several cattle herding boys meet up to play by the river to relieve the heat and heat caused by the heat. While these children were playing in the water, one of the children accidentally found a mussel at the bottom of the river, and he excitedly picked up the mussel and played with it. As a result, he accidentally found several black unknown objects under the body of the river mussel, which looked like chocolate at first glance, so he quickly called his companions over to see what it was.
It turned out that these black things were the silt at the bottom of the river that was contaminated on the outer layer of the object, so after they washed these objects with river water, what appeared in front of them was a golden yellow and full of intricate patterns and handwriting. However, the children could not recognize what it was, so they were curious and brought these things home and asked the adults to help see what they were.
The well-informed adults naturally saw that these were gold at a glance, and rushed to the river excitedly to see if they could find any more gold. Soon the news of the discovery of gold by the river was known to the whole village, so the villagers put down their farm work and went to the river to collect gold, and they gathered by the river every day to look for gold with various tools, each hoping to be rich and noble. When the river was most crowded, more than a hundred villagers searched for gold, and eventually they fished out 21 pieces of such gold in the river.
So the news of the discovery of gold in Dafeng County also spread to other places, and for a time there was an endless stream of people here, and many cultural relics dealers also specifically found villagers to buy the gold. However, after the police knew about it, they realized that these were valuable cultural relics, so they immediately intervened to stop the villagers from trading, and then recovered the gold and handed it over to the Cultural Relics Bureau. After appraisal, experts learned that these were indeed genuine gold, and it was also the currency of the Chu state in the Warring States period 2500 years ago, called Ying Ai.
Yin Ai is made into two forms, one is a square gold plate, and the other is a round gold cake, but people will also cut it when they are used. The earliest Yin Ai was a special currency used by the nobles of the Chu state, and since then it has spread to Jiangsu and Anhui and other places, this currency is almost the earliest gold currency found in China at present, and the number of preserved is also very rare, so experts believe that their value is at least above 100 million yuan.