Chapter 963: Mint Inventory
Zhang Nan was scolding, and several people in the room were puzzled, especially Tu Haibo.
There was no second packaging in the box, and a whole box of silver coins with a slight reddish-yellow oxidation looked quite new, and it was possible that they had not been used, as if they had been boxed directly in the mint.
Tu Haibo was puzzled, reached out and took a few to see, it seemed that the whole box was of the same variety, "Boss, this is a silver dollar, 1780, quite early." ”
There is a female chest portrait on the front of the top, and there is a chronicle, the boss said that it was a "big-nurse", which looked quite big.
But it's a silver dollar, how can it be damned?
He couldn't figure it out.
Not only Tu Haibo couldn't figure it out, but Jacob, Liu Wendong and others couldn't figure it out either.
Zhang Nan was speechless, but since the guys had doubts, he still had to explain.
"This is Maria Theresiathaler, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who has been called the big nurse in China for at least a hundred years. If you want to say that the silver dollar is the most useless and wasteful, it's this big-nurse!
If you don't have one, it's the most useless......"
There are a bunch of "crackling", which seems to have a slight taste of venting: in the previous life, when I first came into contact with the silver dollar, I would be pitted.
I took a batch at a price much more expensive than the price of silver, and I thought I was taking advantage of it, but later I learned that the year was all a lie, and this thing was worth a silver price.
What should I do if there are too many of them?
It's no problem to trade directly with the weight of the scale, it's not worth much anyway, it's too much.
And not only Zhang Nan himself has been pitted, but even his friends have also been cheated, saying that the loss of money is small, and the loss of face is big, I will remember it for two lifetimes!
Zhang Nan has a slightly paranoid preference for silver dollars, but this plays silver dollars, and he doesn't play big - nurse!
Whoever plays is the second force!
Of course, I won't tell the guys what happened in my previous life, but just after listening to Zhang Nan say what a big-nurse is, everyone seems to understand why he hates this kind of silver dollar so much.
Big-Mom, with a silver content of 83.3%, can be regarded as one of the most famous and widely circulated silver coins in the history of world currency.
And she is also very strange, not only is the silver content low, but she doesn't know what ingredients are mixed in it, and she doesn't even use it to melt down the silverware, it's definitely a waste!
The friend who was also cheated in his previous life opened a gold shop, and once received eight big-nurses, and finally found that it was not only a silver price, but also that no one even asked for the silver price, and the buddy was so angry that he simply threw the 8 big-nurses in the store as old silver.
Generally, silver dollars are made of silverware is to lose watermelons and pick up sesame seeds, but I have to say that the silverware made of old silver dollars has its special luster: the silver content is not comparable to the new silver with a purity of 99%, but it is beautiful.
But this big-nurse is an outlier in the old silver dollar, once it melts in the crucible, it becomes a mass of slag, and it must be purified and purified, otherwise it will be useless at all.
And even if it takes a lot of time, gasoline and effort to purify, the old silver products it processes are also slag, and the luster is not as good as the bright white copper.
It's a lot of it, because it's been in production for more than two hundred years!
It began to be minted at the Guzburg Mint in Austria in 1773 and soon became a stable local currency in many parts of the world, especially in eastern and northern Africa and the Near and Middle East.
As a result, Queen Maria, the "big nurse", died and was still minted intermittently for almost two hundred years from 1781.
In his previous life, Zhang Nan had heard that in the 21st century, there were still mints minting large-scale nurses, which felt that as long as the earth did not explode for a day, the grandmothers would have to continue to build.
What's even more bizarre is that the date on the coin is forever stuck in the year 1780, and the date of 1780 is still used for this kind of silver coins minted after 1780.
Made in the 18th century, minted on a larger scale in the 19th century, the Guzburg Mint closed in 1850, and the coins continued to be minted in Vienna, with the Guzburg Mint still marked.
Throughout the 19th century, the demand for wet nurses grew, and the mints minted in Milan, Venice and Prague under Austro-Hungarian rule, as well as in Birmingham, London, Paris, Florence, Rome, Brussels, Mumbai, Karlsburg, Kremnitz, ......
Anyone can come and take a look, regardless of the country or time, and the mark and year of the big nurse are the same, and it is roughly estimated that at least 800 million coins were minted by these mints.
This is still the most conservative speculation, because it was too big to make - there are so many mints that the nurse has so many that God will not know how many have been made.
Big-nurse, waste in silver dollars!
But......
There is a saying: you can't cheat the head!
In the last life, there are people who are promoting a concept: silver dollars, the image is very important, and the big nurse who is like a good product is also very collectible...
In this regard, Zhang Nan said: Hehe!
After that, I'm done scolding, check it again. This box is full of large-nurses, first-class in quality, and with the so-called yellow-red mint "factory original light" that only exists after the deposition of that layer of time, it is estimated that it can also be used by some newcomers in the collecting world.
Zhang Nan didn't lack these few money, and looked at them annoyingly, and said: "These big-nurses can take them as they like they want, and they can go home and use them as toys for their children, and this kind of product can still be deceived in the United States." ”
Saying that, he glanced at the basement entrance, "I don't know how many are down there, if it's all big-nurses, let Thomas deal with all the relationships he found last time, it's annoying to watch!"
relationship, take those Annamite silver ingots from the Philippines to the Mongolian people, and sell a lot in the past two years.
Big-nurse, Annan silver ingot is a virtue, a sharp weapon, when antiques buy iron loss, the price of silver.
In fact, it is worse than sterling silver with a purity of 99%, it is a scum!
A box is estimated to have a small 3,000 pieces, all of which are stuffed, so it is so heavy.
The boss doesn't like it, the guys don't care, how to say that this is also a silver coin with a bright appearance and a first-class luster.
This box is put aside for the time being, everyone is not greedy, and a box is enough for everyone to share and take it back as a small souvenir.
Keep moving.
The same ammunition boxes, twenty or so boxes were moved in a row, and they were all big - nurses, and there were almost no traces of circulation of the same.
Zhang Nan judged: "It is really possible that the inventory was moved from the mint or bank vault. ”
It's not far from Austria, not to mention that Czechoslovakia, a few dozen meters away, was originally the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and God knows from which mint or vault it was moved from.
The Soviets are coming, and if they continue to be in the warehouse, they will definitely become the trophies of the Soviet army, so judging from this, it is reasonable to bury them in the first place.
There are still about forty ammunition boxes in the basement, and the ...... continues to move
Big-nurse, or big-nurse!
That's almost seventy or eighty thousand!
Finally, when the last thirty boxes were left, I finally didn't have to look at the big breasts of the nurse.