Wang gang recently dropped $12,000 during a trip to Taipei, Taiwan's thriving capital. He wasn't taking in the sights; he was feeding a passionate hobby: collecting ancient Chinese coins. Wang has made similar excursions abroad―Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore―adding to a hoard that could easily be worth $30 million. Among his purchases in Taiwan: Qing dynasty (1644-1911) coins with square holes in their centers, and 2,000-year-old Warring States coins, some shaped like garden hoes. Chinese artifacts are hot. In a September auction arranged by Doyle New York, a blue-and-white porcelain flask from the Yuan dynasty set a record price for Chinese porcelain, at $5.8 mil- lion. The following month in Hong Kong, a bidder broke the barrier for a piece of nephrite jade, paying $1.2 million for a carved mountain. In November, prices at an auction in Beijing for ancient "knife" coins (2,000-year-old currency shaped like a blade) ranged from $120 to $1,084, a third more than what they were bringing just six months earlier. What's feeding the frenzy? A lot of it is the nouveaux riches of China, who are repatriating artifacts for their investment potential as well as for their historic, cultural and nationalistic importance.
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机译：王刚最近在前往台湾这个繁荣的首都台北的旅行中投入了12,000美元。他不是在看风景。他喂养着一个热情的爱好：收集中国古代硬币。 Wang在国外（日本，香港和新加坡）进行了类似的旅行，增加了一笔很容易就价值3000万美元的ho积。他在台湾购买的物品包括：清代（1644-1911）中心有方孔的硬币以及2,000年前的战国硬币，有些形状像花园的es头。中国文物很热。在纽约杜伊尔（Doyle New York）安排的9月拍卖中，元代的青花瓷瓶创下了中国瓷器的最高价格，为580万美元。在香港的第二个月，一个竞标者以120万美元的价格买下一块软玉，打破了一块软玉的壁垒。去年11月，在北京的一次拍卖会上，古代“刀”币（有2000年历史的形状像刀片的货币）的价格在120美元至1,048美元之间，比六个月前的价格高出三分之一。疯狂的滋味是什么？其中很多是中国的新贵，由于其投资潜力以及历史，文化和民族主义的重要性，他们正在遣返文物。
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