Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"Let me see!"

Ma Hongwei opened Doubao and said in voice message, "Doubao, help me look up the Soviet version of Yuan Shikai silver dollar."

[The Soviet Yuan Shikai silver dollar, also known as the 1914 Yuan Shikai silver dollar stamped with the Soviet mark, originated during the Land Revolution period (1931-1933, primarily in the Hunan-Hubei-Western Hubei region, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region, and the Central Soviet Area).]

At that time, the Kuomintang imposed an economic blockade on the base areas, and the Soviet areas lacked minting capacity. Therefore, the captured Yuan Shikai silver dollars from the third year of the Republic of China were manually stamped with the word "Soviet" using steel stamps and used as temporary currency in the Soviet areas.

Due to the large number of items being confiscated and melted down by the Kuomintang and lost in the war, genuine artifacts are now rare, making them extremely valuable to collectors and quite expensive.

【真品磨损、戳清：50-80万元；上美品（包浆自然、无修补）：80-180万元；近未流通/原光180万-300之间，更高价格需到拍卖行。】

After looking at them, Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "Not all Soviet Yuan Shikai silver dollars are worth 350 million yuan; those are auction prices."

"However, even the cheapest genuine product will cost at least 50 yuan!"

Xia Weiwei nodded and said, "50 is no small amount!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Then let's find them one by one!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "Put these away first, change your clothes, I'll go see what's going on!"

After saying that, he headed back towards the supply and marketing cooperative ahead.

Xia Weiwei casually waved her hand, took the box and the silver dollars, and then went into her bedroom.

When she came out again, she had changed out of her Eighth Route Army uniform into a short-sleeved shirt and jeans.

Not long after, Ma Hongwei returned to the main room.

Who is it?

Xia Weiwei glanced at it and asked.

Ma Hongwei said, "An old man wanted to buy cigarettes just now, but he's already left."

Xia Weiwei summoned the wooden box again, smiling as she said, "Let's start looking now!"

"Weiwei, I just thought about it."

Ma Hongwei said slowly, "I think we shouldn't go out too many times at once."

He picked up a small wooden box from the table in the main room, emptied its contents, and then sat down on the sofa with the box in his hand.

Ma Hongwei said, "Let's fill this small box all at once, and then count what kinds of Yuan Shikai silver dollars are inside."

"As the saying goes, scarcity increases value. My main concern is that if we sell too many rare Yuan Shikai silver dollars, it will affect the price. It's better to take it slow and steady."

"Can!"

Xia Weiwei nodded and said, "You must have your reasons for saying that."

In her view, the other party knows the world better than she does, so she should naturally listen to them and avoid an outsider giving advice to an expert.

Ma Hongwei picked up the small box, placed it on the coffee table, and began to carry the Yuan Shikai silver dollars from the large wooden box inside.

After filling the small box, Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "Weiwei, you can put away that big wooden box now!"

Xia Weiwei asked, "Aren't we going to sell those gold bars?"

"Keep it for now!"

Ma Hongwei pondered for a moment and said, "We need to verify now whether the gold bars can be improved. If so, we will need a lot of gold bars later."

"I think we can keep the gold bars for now; after all, these Yuan Shikai silver dollars can be sold for a lot of money."

Xia Weiwei nodded and said, "You're so thoughtful. I definitely wouldn't have thought of these things."

"Let's get started!"

Ma Hongwei brought the small box over, and the Yuan Shikai silver dollars inside were dumped onto the sofa.

"Let's put all the same type together and pack them in plastic bags later."

Ma Hongwei sorted through the items, saying, "The ones from the third year of the Republic of China are the most numerous. We can put them in the wooden box first. What we're mainly interested in are those stamped with the word 'Soviet,' as those are the most valuable."

"OK!"

Xia Weiwei nodded and began to focus on selecting items.

Before long, Xia Weiwei exclaimed with delight, "Hey, another Soviet version of Yuan Shikai silver dollar!"

She carefully handed the silver dollar to Ma Hongwei.

"That's really true!"

Ma Hongwei glanced at it and chuckled, "One more Soviet-era Yuan Shikai silver dollar means at least another 50!"

Based on his 5% cut, he could get at least 5 yuan just from those two Yuan Shikai silver dollars.

In the past, his total annual income (including writing novels) was only a little over 6.

It doesn't sound like much, but this is in the countryside.

In their county-level city, a monthly income of 5,000 yuan is already considered quite high.

Ma Hongwei doesn't need to rent a house or anything like that. His family owns some land, and they grow some loofah and pumpkin in the yard, which saves them a lot of money.

After browsing for a while, Ma Hongwei found a Soviet version of Yuan Shikai silver dollar.

Ma Hongwei said, "There are already three, which add up to at least 150 million. They all look to be in good condition; they might even sell for several million!"

He never expected that there would be so many Soviet-era coins in this box of Yuan Shikai silver dollars.

However, when he thought about how these were all given to him by the Eighth Route Army, Ma Hongwei felt relieved.

The predecessor of the Eighth Route Army was the Red Army. After the Long March of 25,000 li, they came from the former Central Soviet Area to northern Shaanxi, and they would definitely have been carrying currency.

After all, they had to buy food from the locals along the way.

The only thing that Ma Hongwei found somewhat regrettable was that there weren't enough Soviet-era Yuan Shikai silver dollars.

"Hongwei, do you think this is valuable?"

Xia Weiwei handed over a silver dollar.

When Ma Hongwei took it in his hand, he found that there were also words on it.

However, it's not the Soviet Union; the left side has the character "肃" (Su) and the right side has the character "甘" (Gan).

"Let me check!"

Ma Hongwei picked up his phone and started searching.

He discovered that there were indeed Gansu versions of Yuan Shikai silver dollars, which were divided into plain versions without inscriptions and versions with added inscriptions.

The blank version is also slightly more valuable than the regular three-year Yuan Shikai silver dollar.

The price of the version with added text will increase many times over.

Ma Hongwei read aloud: "The 1914 Gansu-produced Yuan Shikai silver dollar, in poor condition, is priced at 100,000-180,000 yuan; in fine condition, 200,000-230,000 yuan; in excellent condition, 600,000-800,000 yuan; and high-grade products can fetch over 18 million yuan at auction, with the highest price reaching 586 million yuan!"

"Why is there such a big price difference for these Yuan Shikai silver dollars?"

Xia Weiwei felt that this industry was too murky.

The same item can have prices that differ by tens of times, it's really...

"Generally speaking, the better the condition, the higher the price!"

Looking at the silver dollar in his hand, Ma Hongwei said, "I feel that the price of ours will definitely not be too bad."

The Yuan Shikai silver dollar of later generations was produced several decades later, during which there was the eight-year War of Resistance against Japan, the four-year War of Liberation, and various bandit suppression campaigns.

After so many years of war, the Yuan Shikai silver dollars that have survived are definitely inferior to these.