Chapter 972: Reliquary
Guan Xingquan and the others had already opened a few crates before, and the three boxes on the west side were all 1 kilogram of gold bars from the Reich Bank, and the boxes inside looked about the same size, not particularly large.
There are four more boxes on the east side that have been pried open, except for the remaining half of the box of "Goddess on the Clouds", the other three boxes of gold coins are mixed, and the weight of each box is 20 kilograms.
Zhang Nan flipped through it, and there were dozens of Dakert gold coins from various countries that began to be minted in the Middle Ages in Europe, and he was dazzled.
The small one is as big as a cent, and the variety is because the "Dachaet" has been minted in many European countries, which is a gold coin with the function of trade currency - no matter what the country mints and the pattern is, each Dachaet, is equivalent to 3.4909 grams of gold with a purity of 98.6%, and can make 1, 2, 3 and more than one number of "Daquattes" when minting, so it is very convenient to trade.
The three of them flipped through together, recognizing the countries of casting, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, the German states before unification, Italy, the kingdoms of Italy before unification, the Papal States, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Tsarist Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Switzerland before reunification, Yugoslavia...
The Austro-Hungarian "Dact" gold coin alone has 2,3,4,6 denominations.
There are also 100 crowns of gold coins from the beginning of the 20th century in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 10 guilder "Wilhelmina" in the Netherlands at the same time, statues of Franz Joseph I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of 20 crowns, 8 florins...
There are even a few classic 1907 Austro-Hungarian 100 crowns commemorative gold coins, which are a good thing, and can be regarded as another masterpiece in the history of Austro-Hungarian coinage, and the other is the "goddess of the clouds": the contrast between the mirror of the outer ring and the frosted inner ring creates a strong visual impact.
Just such a gold coin of more than 30 grams, the deep relief with the rich color of the oil painting on the back actually renders the emperor's coronation scene very magnificently!
Visually, the design of this coronation coin is almost to the level of a top-of-the-line art medallion.
Seeing that this gold coin was beautiful, Zhang Nan and Guan Xingquan looked at it carefully, and Xiang Weirong on the side asked: "This thing is very valuable?"
Guan Xingquan was sharing the spoils with Zhang Nan, a total of 4 pieces, and simply stuffed them into the squad leader's hand: "Generally, there are more surviving people, and this kind of slight flow is about two or three thousand dollars, which is beautiful." ”
Xiang Weirong took it and looked at it, handed it back to Guan Xingquan, and said, "Oh." "He didn't have the habit of collecting silver coins, and if he liked both of them, he wouldn't be loved.
It's not the first time I've seen a wagon of gold, and I've long lost the habit of putting a few souvenirs in my pocket.
This is two pieces for the next person, just right.
It's fun to collect your favorite collections, otherwise Guan Xingquan wouldn't have the time to share the spoils with Zhang Nan - the previous "goddess on the clouds" is still beautiful in his eyes.
Zhang Nan is not stingy.
I wanted to continue to flip through it, but someone came over, it was Liu Wendong who went to check the situation of the large items in the front compartment before.
"Boss, car 5 has a couple of big boxes and can be a bit of a hassle. ”
Car No. 5, from west to east, is temporarily numbered.
This time, a few people stopped turning over the gold coins, so they got out of the car to see.
When I got to the No. 5 car, I climbed up and saw that the boxes here were relatively large, some of them were framed in brown paper, and if they were longitudinally, they could be stuffed into the ventilation shaft.
The problem is that there are several large wooden boxes - the longitudinal size is of course less than one meter, but the boxes are difficult to carry almost vertically, and Liu Wendong said just now that the box is quite heavy.
Can you move it, pry it open!
As soon as the first box opened, I breathed a sigh of relief: it was divided into six small wooden boxes, one of which had not yet been nailed.
When the lid is opened, there is a high-pedested cup wrapped in cotton cloth with a gorgeous appearance.
Zhang Nan took out the cup and saw that it was a sacrament cup, about 30 centimeters high, very heavy in his hand, and the main material was obviously gold.
The upper part of the cup and the base are inlaid with enamel religious paintings on each side, and the whole body is inlaid with turquoise, red gemstones, topaz, amethyst, and various reliefs, which are likely to be products of the late 17th or early 18th century.
Put the cup back in the small wooden box, and don't look at what is in the other small boxes for the time being, as long as the volume is not large.
After priing open the second large box, it was found that it was also divided into multiple small boxes, which was not a problem.
But there was a problem with the third box, after prying it open, I saw that it was stuffed with a large piece of cloth, red, very thick, and stuffed firmly, and it could be seen that the person who packed it was very concerned about the contents of the box.
Carefully pulling the big red cloth out to the side, a house appeared in front of him.
It's a house!
The two-storey spire with gold as the main material is full of high-relief figures of various colors, detailed metalworking inlays, gemstone inlays of various colors, hollow carving and welding...
With a length of about 80 cm, a height of 60 and a width of about 50 cm, this is a super large jewelry box when viewed from the top and sides!
What is it?
Zhang Nan couldn't say anything for a while, and Paul on the side looked at the study and said, "This seems to be a reliquary." ”
"In the church?"
Hearing Zhang Nan's question, Paul said: "It should be, there should be some holy relics inside." ”
I didn't try to open it, I don't have experience with this kind of box. A few people tried to lift the wooden box first, which should have exceeded 100 kilograms.
What to do with this big box?
The outer wooden box is very thick, and unless it is erected, it may get stuck in the aisle. You can't leave it here and leave it alone, God knows what the box came from, and you can't drag it up and down, so that the gems, reliefs, and openwork ornaments on the flanks will be reimbursed and transported from the bottom down.
I took a ruler and measured it for a while, and I just came up with a way to make a new temporary box with a smaller outer size, stuff it into the ventilation shaft, and pull the box up. At the same time, there should be two men above the chest, and as the box goes up, keep putting smooth planks on top of the steel steps, so that the box does not get stuck.
You can't leave people under the box, the planks will fall down, not to mention, if the box falls down, it will kill people!
That's it!
The question arises again - what board to use?
This can't help Zhang Nan, "Go buy a finished wooden floor strip more than 100 meters long, that thing has high strength and smooth surface, and when you pull it up, you can put it in a single and double cross style, just right." ”
Well, people buy wooden floors by the square, which will have to be counted as meters.
immediately contacted the guy above and asked him to go farther away to the big city to purchase, but after the guy in charge figured out that he was going to haul large items, he changed his mind with a word.
Without flooring, with wainscoting, the kind of solid wood smooth surface material can be several meters long, and it will be much more convenient and troublesome to operate than the floor strip.
What's more: it's meter-by-meter.