Chapter 1178: The Penny of the Nine Clans
5 Fennig, who looks so ugly, has a pattern on it like two guys with big pie faces each holding a big cake, and they don't even have facial features.
The color is very good, the gold is swaying, and it is estimated that there can be more than 9 percent.
However, this handful of gold coins is mixed with another gold coin, which is slightly larger, with a diameter of two centimeters, which can be considered a super-large gold coin in the Middle Ages, and looks slightly thicker than the 4.48-gram gold coin of Souledus.
Wearing gloves, this feeling is not good, otherwise Zhang Nan can easily weigh it out in his hands.
Gold, too familiar.
Jerry also noticed this different kind of gold coin, took one and looked at it, and saw that the boss didn't seem to remember the variety of this gold coin at once, so he said: "This is the Augustan gold coin issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, which can be regarded as the largest gold coin in the Middle Ages, and the weight should be about 5.25 grams."
However, the value of this gold coin was too great at the time, and it was a bit flashy in actual transactions, and after the death of Frederick II, the standard large gold coin was discontinued.
With the exception of a few that have been handed down and buried underground for a variety of special reasons, these super-large gold coins have been reminted into smaller coins in a short period of time.
Frederick II died in 1250, so it is unlikely that the coins were buried too far from this point in time..."
Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful emperor in medieval Europe, was also an emperor who dared to confront the Pope - because the contradictions were too acute, Pope Innocent IV excommunicated Frederick II in Lyon, France, in 1245.
As for what this absolute-punishment is, don't say it, anyway, it's quite OO fork.
deliberately stabbed in France, not daring to confront Frederick II in the papal kingdom at that time, for fear of being extinguished by Frederick II's fire.
This Frederick II did not worry about going to hell after death, and the punishment was very bad for him, but continuing to fight against the Holy See was definitely a bull fork in the Middle Ages!
The Middle Ages, why the ox fork, you can see a little taste from the composition of a few Augustan gold coins in Nan's hand.
The Middle Ages was a dark period of religious rule, and the mind was imprisoned, and this Frederick II began to produce the first large gold coins in Europe in the centuries "Augustus" in the Royal Mint in Messina and Brindisi, Italy, starting in 1231, with a total of more than one million pieces.
Frederick II wanted to use his own gold coins to compete with the Byzantine saucer-shaped gold coin "Hepapelon" and the Arabic gold dinar, and even replace the latter two, with a total circulation of more than one million.
Current archaeological discoveries show that this Augusta coin was used throughout Italy and southern Germany, including in many Crusader countries.
LIKE THE MAJESTY AND GLORY OF AN ANCIENT ROMAN EMPEROR, THIS FRIEDRICH II PRINTED HIS PORTRAIT ON THE OBVERSE OF A GOLD COIN, WHICH WAS COMPLETELY DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL ROMAN COSTUME AND WORE AN ANCIENT LAUREL WREATH ON HIS HEAD, WHICH READ: "CESAR AVG IMP ROM FRIDE RICVS", WHICH MEANS: CAESAR AUGUSTUS, ROMAN EMPEROR FRIEDRICH.
The reverse of the coin is a Roman eagle, with a gold content of 85% and a diameter of 20 mm.
The aesthetic is not representative of Frederick II's position: the design of this coin was not unusual at the time, because it did not have any symbol of heaven and religion printed on it, and it was absolutely unique and had no other branches!
It's clear that you want to confront the Vatican!
Cow man!
This batch of gold coins was no longer dealt with with with a shovel, and was held in the hand and put into the barrel, and it was estimated that there could be thousands of large and small pieces.
The amount looks quite a lot, but in fact, it only counts the weight of gold, which is only three or four kilograms at most.
Continuing to dig in, I soon found a large box of various silver coins, which could be dozens of kilograms, almost half of which were Grosso, a large silver coin that began to be produced in Venice at the beginning of the 13th century, with a purity of 0.965 and a weight of 2.18 grams.
Two grams of silver coins with zero points is considered a large denomination, there is no way, Western Europe in the Middle Ages was poor, and it must not be compared with those silver coins weighing 267 grams in modern times.
Besides, the silver production in the Middle Ages was much less than in modern times, and it should be worth more than now: in the Middle Ages, it was difficult for people to find money to buy things.
Large silver coins cost more than two grams, and the remaining half is much lighter, but in the Middle Ages it would have been considered a very good quality and reliable silver coin: 19 mm in diameter, 0.79 mm thick, and weighing 1.44 grams of English silver pennies.
Many of them are silver pennies of Henry III of England, the finest of the early silver pennies issued between 1216 and 1272.
At a time when England produced an average of 400 to 40 million silver pennies a year, which was huge, and was also widely circulated on the European continent, it is not surprising that the underground treasure vaults of Austria appeared.
However, Zhang Nan gossiped with Jerry while cleaning up these silver pennies: "From ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, the painting and manufacturing skills of European craftsmen are really getting worse and worse.
Even if this thing is small, if it were in ancient China, and the emperors saw their great faces carved into a stupid and stupid appearance, I guess these craftsmen would have to be punished by the Nine Clans, even the heads of the mint, and the big and small officials in charge would be doomed!"
The silver penny also has the head of the King of England on it, but it is clearly an abstract goofy.
Well, Jerry Goodencowan knows what it means to be a family member, he's been in the manor for a long time, and he knows a lot of secrets about his boss, and he knows that this boss doesn't look like he's usually amiable, but he's cruel to his enemies - and that Lady Nicole is no different!
Zhu Jiu clan, Jerry thinks that his boss is absolutely good at treating the enemy, and most importantly: the boss secretly has this strength!
Zhang Nan said that it would take a few hours to clean the entire basement, but this was stopped at nearly 12 noon, and it was time for dinner.
There were still the last two meters left in the basement, and the rotten wood and mud peeking out of the mud were no longer currency, but like artifacts.
"Let's go eat first, and then we'll talk about it when we're done. ”
Up to the surface, the guys above have also stopped working, and the three armed guards are guarding with guns near the entrance to the basement without leaving.
The items that had been brought up before had also undergone preliminary cleaning, and the silver coins were divided into stainless steel basins and gold coins, and temporarily stored in one of the workshops at the top of the mountain.
Take off your gloves and half-body waterproof suit, and go to the side to make it easier. It wasn't too cold, so I washed my hands with cold tap water and went to eat in another workshop.
The cafeteria below has already served Chinese food, with grilled steak and bread, and Zhang Nan of course chooses the most appetizing white rice.
didn't pay attention to it, so he sat around Zhang's humble desk and pulled it, but after only a few bites, Zhang Nan found that something seemed to be missing.
He didn't look up, and asked Guan Xingquan, who was eating together, with a bulging bag of food stuffed in his mouth, "Charlie went down?"
Go down, the construction site at the bottom of the mountain, she was shouting this sore and painful in the morning.
"No, next door holding the book Jerry brought. ”
Next door is the room where the excavated objects are temporarily stored, and it is supposed to be locked, but Princess Xingchen wants to go inside to see of course at will, and no one will stop her.
Everyone knows that the boss spoils this sister who is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention going inside, even if he walks with a sack, he won't ask a word - now people's private pocket money is counted in millions of dollars!
As for the books, Jerry brought a few professional books, including professional books on medieval coins, and Xiao Nizi didn't want to go to the gloomy basement in the morning, so she borrowed the book and read it in the workshop, which was regarded as learning to pass the time.
Zhang Nan just wanted to call her to dinner, when a fiery figure rushed in.
"Brother, look at what this is!"