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Pawn Stars: Ancient Chinese Currency Could Be the Real Deal (Season 13) | History - YouTube
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how's it going how you doing so what do
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you have here this is the earliest
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documented paper money from the Ming
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Dynasty China 1368 $13.99 it's called
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the one kwan note which is basically one
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thousand cash there are two notes in
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there that's why you're seeing two
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different shades okay I mean it's pretty
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cool dude governments have always tried
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paper money the problem is with paper
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money there's this massive temptation to
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keep on printing more and more and more
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you start getting inflation and the
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right thing you know what used to cost a
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buck cost a hundred bucks it's the
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inevitable keep on printing until you
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destroy yourself I got these notes from
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a seller whose brother passed away I
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really appreciate Chinese currency it's
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one of my favorites to collect I would
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like to get for the better condition
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probably around twelve thousand five
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hundred and the lesser conditional
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probably eight thousand seven hundred
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and fifty dollars so how would you off
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for well the better condition one twelve
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thousand five hundred the lesser
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condition 8750 okay have you had these
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checked out by anybody no I have not had
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checked out headnotes checked out one
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time they were gone for over two months
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cost a lot of money I mean I can call
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someone to take a look at it definitely
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a lot of times when it's too good to be
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true it usually is hold on a few minutes
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I'm gonna go get McCall and I'm gonna
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get been here okay thanks having an
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expert come in very interested see way
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as to say I'm strictly a collector I
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have not been doing this an incredibly
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long time so I'm excited to learn
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everything I can about these notes
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he's got printed Chinese notes these are
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from the 14th century well you know is
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so fascinating to me to take a look at
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ancient Chinese currency and there's a
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guide in history that's the guy who
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invented paper over name was say Leung
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and he actually invented paper and a
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hundred and five ad he used may ceated
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bark he used old fishing nets
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he used rags boiled it all together and
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it turns to paper right so it it kind
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have changed the world sure I've seen
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examples of currency that go all the way
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back to 250 AD and back in those days
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money was used almost like an IOU note
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basically would say IOU to amounts of
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silver and then I owed you seven coils
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of copper and that way started currency
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as I'm looking at this with my expertise
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this is Ming Dynasty okay you flip this
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over and right there that tells you how
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much money is involved okay you've got
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two big brackets of silver and this is
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gonna be copper one two three four five
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six seven eight nine ten drunk at some
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copper this is the emperor seal right
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here so I can take one look at that and
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say that's emperor yuan this is Ming so
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you've got two different pieces of
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currency in here yes so is it real what
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do you think Chumlee does it look old to
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you and 750 years old
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[Laughter]
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well handmade paper that came out of
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that dynasty and it's come over my desk
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at the University before it usually is
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more frayed it's got a thicker texture
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to it and and handmade paper is it
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there's no consistency to it it is kind
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of like you know rough looking well I'm
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just gonna say based on what I've seen I
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cannot say that this is real it kind of
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looks too clean
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hmm too new to be 700 years old I
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understand all right okay sir appreciate
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it thank you very much you're basically
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looking at paper that seven hundred
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years old and by the time it would get
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to my desk
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it's very frayed this stuff look like it
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came off the press yesterday so it
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really did throw up a red flag with me I
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mean maybe there's a slight chance and a
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really slight chance that there's some
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way legitimate old paper like this it's
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it becomes brittle interesting I mean
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you can send it off to a currency
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grading company and maybe for some weird
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reason they were like this but I really
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doubt it
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and I appreciate it have a good what
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about you two thank you well I
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definitely
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I am disappointed they feels they're not
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real I'm not sure if I agree with them
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I'm not sure how many of these have come
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across their desk
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you
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