一上世纪末,12月30日《扬子晚报》A9版上刊出一条新闻:国内首家私人钱币博物馆,百万元古币捐国家。首家私人钱币博物馆馆长吴根生,吴江芦墟镇人,有“江南铁五铢王”之称,他搜集的中外币钞有一万多种。他主要玩钱币,玩出了大名堂,也玩别的古董,但跟别人的玩法不同,目的不同,所谓各有一本道德经。吴根生长得结结实实,中等个儿,有点土气,肚里却很有“货”,读书不多,却注意从生活中学。1965年吴根生任海军675艇枪炮军士长,当年11月14日,在福建崇武以东海战中,他受伤不下火线,指挥全艇炮火与兄弟舰艇一起击沉蒋军永昌号、重创永泰号、荣立二等功,进京见到了毛主席。1983年4月,吴根生复员转业回故乡,结束了20多年的戎马生涯。地方政府给他安排了个副镇长的职位,具体负责文物普查之类工作,这倒很合他的兴趣。小时候,家有一瓮祖父传下来的铜板,是老人家在上海 A late last century, December 30, “Yangtze Evening Post” A9 version published a news: the first domestic private coin museum, million yuan coins donated countries. Wu Gen-sheng, the director of the first private coin museum, and Luxu Town, Wujiang City, have the title of “King of the Five Southern Fifties in the South of the Yangtze River”. He collected more than 10,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign currency bills. He mainly plays coins, plays big names, and plays other antiques. However, unlike other people’s playstyles, he has different aims and so-called moral principles. Wu Gen grow well endured, medium, a little rustic, but it is a very “goods”, read a small book, but pay attention to life from secondary school. In 1965, Wu GenSheng served as naval commander of 675 guns, and on November 14 that year, in the battle of east Fujian Chongwu, he was injured no less than the firing line, directing the entire ship of artillery fire and his brother ship to sow Chiang Kai-shek’s Yongchang and hit Yongtai , Awarded the second-class merit and went to Beijing to see Chairman Mao. In April 1983, Wu Gen-sheng demobilized and returned to his hometown, ending more than 20 years of military career. The local government arranged him a deputy mayor position, specifically responsible for cultural census work, which is very much in his interest. When I was young, there was a bronze plate handed down by a grandfather from the family, who was an elderly person in Shanghai