Regardless of the unloading, leaving a few guys who were originally guarding the dock, Zhang Nan and a large group of people went to the location of the excavator and saw the crack that went deep into the bottom of the mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After taking a strong flashlight and shining it inside, you can see a part of the cave near the entrance of the cave: under the accumulated soil and gravel, there is a golden flash unique to gold, like a band of light, breathtaking!

"Treasure Cave!"

It was Captain Philip who spoke, and after Zhang Nan heard it, he said: "I don't know why someone put gold and silver coins here, it's hard to judge by these 12 pieces alone, and the age is relatively early."

If you can clear out the currency of the latest period, you can roughly determine when it was buried. ”

Rich people, the treasure is in front of you, and you have to explore its origin and reasons--- so idle!

Since you have an idea, this is easy to do, you don't need to move all the coins out to judge, you can roughly see the name of the hall by getting a few dozen kilograms first.

Liu Wendong is relatively small here, so he climbed to the inside with an aluminum folding ladder, and then transported it a few times with a dustpan for sweeping the floor, and moved out more than 50 kilograms.

As for how many are in it, Liu Wendong estimates that the gold and silver coins add up to at least tons!

The thickness of the accumulation is thirty or forty centimeters, which is indispensable.

Spread out on the back of the body of the pickup truck, Zhang Nan began to identify.

There are many people who know and those who don't: during the time of Alexander the Great and after his death, the Kingdom of Macedonia issued a lot of gold coins weighing 8.55 grams, and Zhang Nan recognized at least 25 varieties made in the city!

The motifs are similar, and most of these gold coins were made from gold nuggets from the Persian treasury after Alexander's conquest of Persia.

The weight and fineness of the gold standard coin are standard enough, and the value can be calculated according to "pieces" when circulating, without the need for a single weighing, which improves the transaction efficiency at the beginning.

Zhang Nan remembers that studies have shown that the purity of the Alexander Gold Standard Coin can reach 99.7%, which is only slightly lower than the 99.9% of 24K pure gold, reaching the peak of refining technology in that era.

In the later period, the mints in the remote areas of Alexander's empire produced the worst gold content of more than 85%, generally above 97%.

Not only the purity, but also the weight of the gold label coins is also very strict, the standard weight is about 8.55 grams, and the error of most coins is controlled within 0.1 grams.

As a result, Alexander's gold coins were widely accepted in Asia, Africa and Europe, and his successors continued to issue gold coins of this standard.

All gold coins feature the head of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, on the obverse, a full-length portrait of Naiki, the winged goddess of victory, and the Greek name of the manufactory.

Compared to the Carthaginians' own Tanite coins, the Alexander Gold Label was a little heavier and more pure, so it seems that gold was the more popular on the Mediterranean coast in the first place.

Tennit gold coins were gold and silver coins, and they were still pure gold for merchants, including the Carthaginians themselves.

"If I finish sorting it out, I think I can compete with the British Museum!"

I put up a "powerful" fist in my heart: in the Alexander gold coin collection, it seems that there are no people and museums that can compete with the British Museum, let alone individuals.

It's possible for me this time.

It's exciting to be able to compare the British Museum to the bottom of it!

At this time, Zhang Nan simply selected the gold coins of the Macedonian Kingdom first: there were more Carthage and Macedonian gold coins among the gold coins taken out, and seeing that there were more and more types of gold coins in Alexander's period, he unconsciously selected the gold coins set by the greatest emperor in the history of the Macedonian Kingdom.

Carthage can be put aside because the British Museum has the most complete collection of Alexander gold coins in the world: from the mints of 19 cities when Alexander was alive, and the mints that still produced after his death, that is, there are a total of 33 city mints in Asia, Africa and Europe.

According to research by the British Museum, the majority of gold coins were made after Alexander's death, accounting for 61.9%, and only 21.8% of the gold coins were made while Alexander was alive, while 16.3% were made during his lifetime - the last gold coin was made in 200 BC in the Black Sea city of Odyssos.

There are 25 varieties of gold and silver coins in these 50 kilograms of gold and silver coins, so it is really possible to gather 33 varieties of gold coins after the entire treasure cave is cleared.

Even if you can't make it up, you can buy the missing varieties.

This group of people is no longer working, and digging for treasures and tracing the footprints of history is much more interesting than moving gold.

There is a boss who likes treasure hunting, treasure digging, and collection, and the group of people around him are about to become antique collectors.

Like Thomas and Captain Philip, they can also help the boss choose, and they have a certain collection discernment.

Zhang Nan first chose all the gold coins, gold standard coins, Carthaginian Matu gold coins, and exquisite gold coins minted by the Achaemenid Dynasty of Persia and the First Persian Empire that existed from 550 BC to 330 BC.

Most of the oldest Persian gold coins are carved with the image of a king holding a bow and arrow on the obverse, reminiscent of the ancient Persian reliefs left over from the ancient city of Persepolis.

These coins are now an absolute rarity, and to have one of the earliest Persian gold coins of this kind is to have a condensed history.

But the atmosphere was not serious at all, not like at the "archaeological site", but more like in a bar: a crowd of people laughing.

Why?

The first person to discover this "King Running with Bow and Arrow" gold coin was Shamili, and he felt that it was interesting, so he said: "Boss, why does this king look like he is running?"

When everyone saw it, it really looked like it!

The funniest thing is probably that although this gold coin was made early, the number of times it was circulated should not be much, and because of the process, there are fine notches on the back of the king's robe wearing a crown and running with a girl, which looks like he is running away.

it, and run with the wind!

When everyone understood, they couldn't help but laugh, including Karimi.

Zhang Nan didn't laugh, but shook his head there!

"Don't laugh, especially the two of you!" he pointed at Shamili and Karimi.

Seeing the boss's serious and serious expression, everyone's expressions immediately changed to a blank slate, and the speed of changing their faces was super block. Especially the two named Chamili and Karimi, who were named, were a little confused about the situation and didn't know what was wrong.

At this point, Zhang Nan felt that he might be making a little fuss, smiled and said: "We are all a family, the people of the world are united, and then laugh at this running king, beware of someone suing you for racial discrimination." ”

Everyone was confused.

Is this about racist birds?

Zhang Nan picked up the gold coin of "The King Ran Away" and said to Shamili and Karimi: "This is a gold coin made by the First Persian Empire, why can't you two laugh at yourself." ”

When everyone heard this, their minds immediately began to run at high speed, Xia Mili and Karimi reacted quickly, and Xia Mili said: "Boss, we are Huaxia." ”

Well, it is Zhang Nan who is too considerate of other people's feelings, even if the ancient Persians more than 2,000 years ago may also speak ancient Iranian, but there have been frequent wars in that area for more than 2,000 years, which is a joke in front of Shamili and Karimi that it may be the Persian king 2,500 years ago, and it is estimated that no one will say goodbye to racial discrimination.

Thinking too much.

......

Aside from the abundance of value and variety, there are no significant discoveries on gold coins, and the latest date is around 200 B.C., when Carthage is still at large.

Then look at the silver coins.

There are more varieties of silver coins, and a small half of them are examined, and it is found that this is the Carthaginian period, the Roman Republican era, the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, the Seleucid Empire, and the Asathian dynasty (Sabbatical Empire).

Only a little bit of the time has been examined, and the Roman Republican dinar has been dated to 152 B.C. at the latest—there are two silver coins issued at that time for the goddess of victory in a two-horse carriage.

The two very small pieces, less than 2 centimeters in diameter and less than 2 millimeters thick, may weigh a little more than three grams.

Judging from the series of silver coins of the Persian Empire, the latest is a silver coin of Mithridates I of the Parthian Empire - this Persian king probably hung up in 136 BC, and it is not known what period of his reign this silver coin was made.

Keep checking and then...

There is a discovery!

A group of people accompanied them as "experts", and listened to Zhang Nan say happily: "It should be this! The silver coins of the god Janus issued between 125 and 119 BC were almost in circulation before they were buried, and it may be that the Carthaginians hid this large amount of wealth here before the island of Ibiza was completely conquered by the Roman army.

This may be the last wealth of the Carthaginian Empire!"

Although the surface of the silver coin is a little gray and oxidized, it is very well preserved, and the fine lines on the top can be seen clearly, and there are almost no traces of use.

Why is it the last wealth of the Empire?

Zhang Nan talked eloquently and enjoyed the feeling that everyone was listening to the lecture and I was the teacher.

People, there are really too few people who don't like to show off on special occasions, and Zhang Nan is not exempt from vulgarity.

Around the 9th century B.C., immigrants from Tyre, one of the Phoenician city-states, crossed the Mediterranean Sea to the area of present-day Tunisia on the north coast of Africa, where they founded Carthage across the sea from Rome and used it as a transit point for the slave trade and maritime trade.

By about the 8th to 6th centuries BC, Carthage began to expand inland into Africa and controlled most of the Phoenician colonies in North Africa.

At the same time, Carthage also made its way to the western Mediterranean, taking advantage of its advanced seafaring technology to gradually occupy the southern coast of Spain and its nearby islands, as well as Sardinia, Corsica, and western Sicily, and of course Ibiza, half a nautical mile away.

From then on, Carthage began to dominate the western Mediterranean, controlling the western and eastern sides of the Mediterranean with Greece.

From the 6th century BC, Carthage began to clash with the Greeks who wanted to penetrate the western Mediterranean, until the beginning of the 4th century BC, when Greece was devastated by the Peloponnesian War and began to stop colonizing Sicily, and the conflict between Carthage and Greece came to an end.

But instead, there was a fundamental conflict of interest with an even more formidable adversary, Rome!

Three Punic wars were fought on both sides, and in the Third Punic War, which took place between 149 and 146 BC, Carthage was defeated and slaughtered, and its territory became a Roman province, the province of Africa.

The city of Carthage was also completely razed to the ground by the Romans, and Rome gained hegemony in the western Mediterranean - and Rome hated Carthage to death, and after completely destroying the city of Carthage, it planted thorns and poured salt water on all the fertile fields of Carthage, and basically used atomic bombs to bomb it dozens of times!

Carthage seemed to have disappeared from that moment, but then Rome was not stable internally, but the islands such as Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea were still controlled by the Carthaginians, until the Romans freed up their hands in 120 BC and completely settled the last base of this people, which was still relying on the sea trade.

“... According to Roman records, they only occupied Ibiza in 120 BC. If I were the head of the Carthaginians in Ibiza, I would never give this wealth to the Romans, because whether it was handed over to the Romans or not would be a dead end, and there was no chance of survival.

Captives of other peoples may also have the opportunity to become slaves of the Romans, but the chances of the Carthaginians surviving are almost zero!"

Genocide!

After the items taken out were temporarily cleaned up, Thomas heard the words of the boss and said: "The Romans hated the Carthaginians, and history was written by the victors.

In my case, I would not have left a single copper to the Romans. ”

The bodyguards from Huaxia don't know Carthage, and the American bodyguards are a little better, and after Li Panfeng and a few people expressed doubts, Thomas explained.

The Romans wrote about the Carthaginians: Carthage was popular to sacrifice children alive to their god of the sun, Baal.

It is said that long ago, the Carthaginians sacrificed their family's eldest son, usually a newborn baby boy, in a sarcophagus to the gods.

Archaeological excavations now confirm that there are a lot of such small sarcophagi, in fact, personally, the mortality rate at that time was not low, not to mention the child mortality rate.

The Romans said that Carthage later entered a more barbaric era: boys between the ages of 1 and 3, usually children of aristocratic families, were cut out of their throats, and then burned alive in the fire before they could breathe.

It is also said that on the eve of the fall of Carthage, the defeat in the war led the rulers of Carthage to order more than 300 boys to be sacrificed alive to their god and ask for his blessing.

Even that Hannibal survived because his father played a trick and bought a poor man's child to replace Hannibal.

In addition, the worship of the moon god was also popular in Carthage, and this sacrificial ritual was held every year.

This ritual is to select many innocent maidens, bathe and change their clothes, and go to the temple to be baptized by a strange man - this is considered the best gift to the moon god, cruelly depriving the maiden of her virginity. ”

After listening to Thomas's words, everyone shook their heads in their hearts.

Or Alyosha told the truth: "The noble child is sacrificed alive,, it's a miracle that this Carthage can hold out until the Romans come to destroy it, this is too good to make up!"

Zhang Nan pursed his lips and said mentally: "What's strange, in more than 20 years, you will know how capable people are! It can make you wonder how this little devil persevered in the fifteen-year War of Resistance?"