Name: Pawn Stars: Ancient Chinese Currency Could Be the Real Deal (Season 13) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T07:12:24.000Z
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money from the Ming Dynasty, China, 1368 to 1399.

It's called the 1 kuan note, which is basically 1,000 cash.

That's why you're seeing two different shades.

Governments have always tried paper money.

this massive temptation to keep on printing

And the next thing you know, what used to cost $1

It's one of my favorites to collect I would like to get,

around $12,500, and the lesser-conditioned note,

Well, the better-conditioned one, $12,500,

Have you had these checked out by anybody?

I mean, I can call someone to take a look at it.

A lot of times when it's too good to be true, it usually is.

I'm going to go give him a call, and I'm going to get Ben here.

Having an expert come in, very interested to see

I have not been doing this an incredibly long time,

Well, you know, it is so fascinating to me

to take a look at ancient Chinese currency.

And he actually invented paper in 105 AD.

Basically, it would say I owe you two amounts of silver,

and then I owe you seven coils of copper.

As I'm looking at this, with my expertise,

You flip this over, and right there that tells you

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 druckets of copper.

So I can take one look at that and say that's Emperor Yuan.

So you've got two different pieces of currency in here.

Does it look old to you and 750 years old?

Well, handmade paper that came out of that dynasty--

and it's come over my desk at the university before--

And handmade paper, there's no consistency to it.

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Pawn Stars: Ancient Chinese Currency Could Be the Real Deal (Season 13) | History

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weird

incredibly

massive