China News Service, Yichang, May 8th (Luo Min) A villager in Yichang, Hubei privately purchased ancient coins for reselling, and asked his son to "bring the goods" through live webcast.
The Yiling District Bureau of the Public Security Bureau of Yichang City reported on the 8th that the man had been taken criminal coercive measures by the police for being suspected of reselling cultural relics.
At the end of May 2018, a large number of ancient coins were dug up during the construction of the Guanyintang Village Section of Wuduhe Town, Yixing Highway Maintenance Project, which attracted some villagers to "taobao" on site.
Later, the local police station and cultural relics department rushed to the scene, stopped the villagers' looting behavior, and recovered some ancient coins.
After verification by the police, the recovered ancient coins amounted to more than 60 kilograms, totaling 2,369. The earliest ancient coins were from the Song Dynasty, and most of the remaining ancient coins were from the Qing Dynasty, and some were ancient coins from Japan and Vietnam.
At the beginning of this year, the Yiling District Public Security Bureau sorted out and judged the police information related to cultural relics cases in the district, and believed that there may be clues to the relevant cultural relics cases behind the police information that occurred in Guanyintang Village that year. Local villager Li Mouyou This entered the police's sight.
Villagers purchase ancient coins from the migrants. Photo by Fu Wudi
The police investigation learned that in recent years, Li bought ancient coins from local villagers several times and installed 4 cameras around his residence to conduct comprehensive monitoring, and his behavior was abnormal.
The police judged from this that Li might be engaged in illegal activities of reselling ancient coins.
On April 27, the police closed the Internet and captured Li, at the same time they found more than 200 jin of ancient coins and hundreds of antiques such as bronzes and porcelain from his home.
Subsequently, the seized ancient coins and other cultural relics were handed over to the cultural relics department of Yiling District, and their specific value needs to be further identified and verified.
After interrogation, Li is a cultural relics lover and has some research on various cultural relics and ancient coins.
In recent years, he bought more than 300 catties of ancient coins from local villagers at a price of about 100 yuan, and then sold more than 100 catties for a profit of about 400 yuan.
He also specifically asked his son to register an account for live webcast sales.
At present, the case is being further processed.
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