There are four pockets, what a mess of coins: Southeast Asian countries, a very small number of old coins from the colonial period, and those left over from the early Chinese period that will flow back.... There are many Zhang Nan who can't recognize them at all, and there are even a lot of miscellaneous medals. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Plus a small amount of small denomination cents in recent decades, Hong Kong dollars or something, anyway, it's a mess!

Zhang Nan flipped through it at random and took out a small medallion: he had seen the same one in the flea market in the United Kingdom.

The bronze medal is about 5 centimeters in diameter, four or five millimeters thick, and weighs about seventy or eighty grams.

The front of the bronze medal has port, people, horses and other patterns, and the back of the bronze medal is all in English: this bronze medal is a souvenir specially designed and cast by the British government in 1824 to commemorate the completion of Devonport Port.

The obverse of the bronze medal depicts Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, standing on a chariot drawn by a sea horse facing the port of Devonport, and the English on the reverse is to congratulate the port on its completion.

The bronze medallions were in almost perfect condition, even more beautiful than the one I had seen in England: the one cost £30.

The other small bag of old silver coins is also a mess of everything from small colonial denominations to a few silver dollar rats from around 1900.

Not much, just a few handfuls, but I saw a silver owl coin with the head of Athena.

The goods are rich, and they are comparable to the inventory of an old coin and antique store in Xiangjiang, but they are too miscellaneous, and the quality is generally not good.

Seeing Zhang Nan rummaging over there, Director Nong said to Manager Yu: "Xiao Zhang likes coins very much. ”

"Turn it slowly, that is, the small bag of silver has to be weighed, and the rest is optional, the copper and nickel are worthless. ”

Zhang Nan did not choose aluminum coins: the preservation of aluminum is difficult, the quality is different, and he doesn't like the light and fluttering feeling of aluminum coins: later someone played cents, but he didn't play, and there were few people in the Jiangnan area who speculated aluminum cents.

Zhang Nan finally looked at it casually, straightened up and didn't look for it: Director Nong was negotiating with Manager Yu about the price of the two strange-looking Buddha statues.

These two Buddha statues are not large, and the height is only thirty or forty centimeters, but the price of the agricultural curator is not low, and a total of 800 pieces have been opened.

"The old farmer is real, not like the old blind guy in the antiquities store! Okay, no problem. Manager Yu happily agreed.

There were also a lot of foreign bronzes, and the curator also flipped through them, and chose a dirty copper plate, and the others didn't look at it.

This plate weighs three or four pounds, is very thick, and slightly deformed, even if it is 30 pieces.

"Old Yu, you can take the other bronzes back to the furnace. ”

Hearing the words of the curator of agriculture, Manager Yu said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, you can sell it twice, someone will ask for it, and you can make more money." ”

1330 yuan, the curator didn't bring so much money, but Zhang Nan did.

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At this point, Zhang Nan said: "Manager Yu, can you sell me all those copper, nickel and silver coins?"

"It's a lot. ”

When the director heard this, he said on the side: "Old Yu, don't worry about the money in Xiao Zhang's pocket, his sister is an entrepreneur, and her pocket money is more than the salary of the two of us." ”

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When Manager Yu heard this, he asked Xu Jinjie: "Xiao Xu, you have a spectrum of weight than me, you can tell me." ”

"Manager, according to the situation of the past two years, every time this old foreign money is disposed of, including the exchange of the bank, copper and nickel are generally two to three times the price of metal, and silver coins sold to peddlers can be sold three to four times the price of silver. ”

Then the silver coin weighed three times the price, and the copper and nickel coins were twice as much. ”

Manager Yu was very refreshed, obviously satisfied with today's harvest, and it was for the sake of the curator of agriculture.

There are scales in the warehouse, silver coins are weighed with a small scale, three catties and two taels, copper coins have 22 catties, nickel coins are 12 catties.

Paying the money, Manager Yu still didn't issue a receipt, saying that there was something bought by Xiao Zhang today, which was not easy to store, so it was simply easy to operate.

Since this is the case, the director of the agricultural curator did not insist, Xiang Weirong and Qiu Bo, who did not speak here, immediately moved their things - they both came at night, and Zhang Nan, who was tired here, knew that it was not easy for people to make some money, right, so we wouldn't have much to do.

The cooperation was pleasant, and I declined Manager Yu's suggestion to have some supper, and several people drove back.

"Xiao Zhang, why do you even want these old copper coins?"

Nong Bosheng in the car asked.

"I like this, I have a special penchant for round coins, and I see a Greek silver Athena owl and a nice bronze medallion in my pocket. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out the silver coin with the head of Athena on one side and a standing owl on the other.

The Silver Athenian Owl is a famous Greek coin: the obverse depicts the goddess Athena wearing an Attica helmet with three olive leaves on the tongue.

Athena is carved on the side, but it seems that the eyes are looking forward, and on the back is a standing owl, on the right is the letter AOE, which means Athens, and on the left is an olive branch and a hooked crescent.

This is a typical Athenian city-state coin: the owl was Athena's guardian bird, and it is said that going out at night to deliver messages to Athena was a symbol of wisdom - this coin is commonly known as the "owl" coin, and was one of the most important international currencies in the ancient Western world at that time.

"The Athenian silver coin was minted for hundreds of years, and this is an Athens 4 drachma silver coin, which was minted around 450 B.C. Xiao Zhang, you are lucky, this silver coin is worth at least a few tens of dollars abroad. ”

Director Nong is worthy of studying Western archaeology, and he recognized it at a glance, and his tone was light: he really doesn't have much pursuit of money, and he is an absolute standard old pedant.

Dozens of dollars Zhang Nan can't look at it, but the fun of coin collecting is not only money, there is a variety that I didn't have before, but I like it, it's a kind of fun, and there is a small pleasure of picking up leaks.

"In this way, if there are any messy foreign coins over there next time, I will help you buy them first, and you will get them when the time comes. ”

"Okay, thank you! By the way, Director Nong, how can their company have such a mess, it's a lot. ”

"Who let us lack a few non-ferrous metals, Yongcheng is also a big port, every year from all over the world imports a large number of non-ferrous metals, and there are a lot of scrap.

Manager Yu's company has been doing this for decades, and every batch of imported scrap non-ferrous metals is a mess of everything, and it cannot be thrown into the blast furnace without pre-sorting. (To be continued.) )