Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 563: Rare Automobile Coins

Today’s intel, dusty Car Coins: At an antique market in Lin City, a Republic-era stool is for sale. Buy this stool, and you’ll strike gold.

Pictures and location of the related items are attached on the second page.

Oh, it’s an antique discovery.

Chen Yiyang seldom receives this kind of antique intel anymore.

Most of the time, the tips are about small investments, minor business opportunities.

Because most of these finds make little profit and are troublesome to handle.

For someone like Chen Yiyang, doing such scavenging is not only inappropriate but would also raise suspicions.

That’s why Chen Yiyang usually ignores most of these tips.

But for antique intel, if the item is valuable, Chen Yiyang would personally check it out.

Since there’s nothing much going on today, Chen Yiyang immediately found an excuse to leave alone and headed to the antique market mentioned in the intel.

This antique market in Lin City isn’t large or formal.

The main reason is that Lin City didn’t have much presence in ancient Huaxia, sometimes being a prime choice for exile.

Thus, not many relics have survived.

After all, Lin City produced only two top scholars throughout ancient Huaxia, resulting in the Guizhou Provincial Museum having just one national treasure, the Northern Song Han Qi’s calligraphy scroll.

Therefore, when Chen Yiyang entered the antique market, he immediately ignored the majority of items claimed to be from the Tang and Song Dynasties.

He was only interested in looking at some relics from the Republic period.

After browsing around, Chen Yiyang quickly reached the stall mentioned in the intel.

"What period is this stool from?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Republic." The vendor was honest and said directly, "There are many in existence now, and they’re not worth much. But you can buy it for occasional seating at home as an old item."

"How much?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

"Around eighty or a hundred bucks, you name a price." The vendor replied.

"Two hundred." Chen Yiyang offered a slightly higher price.

"Sure, no problem." The stool looked quite rough despite being from the Republic, used by ordinary households.

So this price was already quite decent, and the vendor promptly agreed.

Thus, Chen Yiyang transferred two hundred to the vendor and took the stool back to the hotel.

"Why did you buy a stool?"

In the hotel room, the accountant was puzzled to see that Chen Yiyang, after being out for so long, came back with a wooden stool.

"I saw it at the antique market and felt there’s something with it, so I bought it," Chen Yiyang replied.

The accountant knew that Chen Yiyang liked going to antique markets alone.

But the boss always returned from the market with something good.

This time, he came back with just this wooden stool.

"Could there be something hidden in the stool’s legs?" The accountant casually suggested.

This inspired Chen Yiyang.

The real item hinted at in the intel is something called the Car Coin.

The simple structure of the stool leaves only the stool legs as a possible hiding place.

So Chen Yiyang sat down with the stool and said to the accountant, "Go find me an axe. I’ll split open this stool to see."

"Where am I supposed to find an axe?" The accountant rolled his eyes and said, "Besides, the stool legs are so thin, can’t you just use pliers to break them?"

"That works too." Chen Yiyang nodded.

However, even pliers are hard to find. If they asked the hotel front desk for such things, they definitely wouldn’t provide them.

It would seem like they were planning to dismantle the hotel room, asking for pliers as well.

If something broke, the hotel could send someone professional to fix it.

So the accountant had to call the assistant.

The poor assistant had to go out to find a hardware store to buy large pliers.

A while later, out of breath, the assistant delivered the pliers to the hotel, giving Chen Yiyang and the accountant a curious look.

He couldn’t fathom what secret game his big boss and his boss’s secretary needed pliers for.

With the pliers, Chen Yiyang directly snapped the stool legs.

He then found that the stool legs indeed had something hidden, their weight was clearly off.

Chen Yiyang repeated the action a bit more.

Sure enough, the inside of the stool legs was hollow, hiding something inside.

Chen Yiyang knocked the stool leg a few times on the table, and several silver coins rolled out from inside.

"There really is something."

Chen Yiyang picked up the silver coins and found that he’d never seen the design before.

The silver coins were stamped with the words "Republic 17th Year, Guizhou Silver Coins" on the back.

And on the front, there was a car.

Chen Yiyang checked it out and learned these silver coins were minted during the Republic by the Qian Southern Government, also known as Car Coins.

Images of the Qian Southern Car Coin obverse and reverse sides.

The Qian Southern Car Coins were minted by the Qian Southern Military Government during the Republic period.

In the Republic era, thousands of types of silver coins were minted in Huaxia, but most featured portraits on the front.

Uniquely, this silver coin from Qian Southern featured cars as the design.

Adding to the rarity, they were minted in limited quantities.

So this batch of Qian Southern Car Coins is extremely rare in numismatic circles.

Chen Yiyang searched online and found that similar Qian Southern Car Coins minted in the Republic 17th Year, and in similar condition sold for a record RMB 1.95 million each at auction a few years ago.

Truly worth its weight in gold.

Luckily, his private collection now has another rare antique. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Chen Yiyang told the accountant to get a box to store all six Qian Southern Car Coins.

At this point, the accountant also found the value of these Car Coins.

"Almost two million per coin!" The accountant counted, "Six coins in total, that adds up to twelve million!"

"Yes." Chen Yiyang nodded.

"I don’t even make two million a year! You just went out and brought back twelve million?!"

The accountant directly asked, "How much did you pay for that stool?"

Chen Yiyang raised two fingers.

"Twenty thousand?" The accountant asked.

"Two hundred bucks."

"Agh agh agh." The accountant exclaimed, "You earned twelve million in a moment, that tops my savings."

"Luck, just luck."

"Then you have to treat me to a good meal tomorrow." The accountant said as he lunged forward.

"Why don’t you let me teach you how to find such treasures?"

"No need, because I’m sure I won’t learn it." The accountant replied, "If I tried this, I’d probably end up being the one picked as a find, rather than finding someone else’s."

"Your self-awareness is quite clear." Chen Yiyang laughed as he looked at the accountant.