As Marin expected, when the fake "French silver coin" was made, it was really much stronger than the genuine French silver coin. After trial-minting 1,000 small French denier silver coins, Marin compared them for a long time and found that the specifications of the 1,000 "French silver coins" were very consistent, consistent to perfection.

But in reality, real French silver coins are hammered by craftsmen with hammers and improvised stamping dies, and the quality is far from comparable to that of vintage coins.

Such a high-quality silver coin could not be officially minted in France. If Nimad ships a little smaller, such as tens of thousands, it is better to say, if it is tens of millions, it will definitely alarm the French official. After all, who have seen hundreds of thousands of silver coins identical? It's too good, but it's also a flaw......

Just like during the Anti-Japanese War, a Japanese army team pretended to be the Eighth Route Army and wanted to cut off the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but as a result, the devils of this team spoke Chinese quite well and could speak dialects...... But it's especially because everyone in this team is wearing new clothes, the equipment is neat and new, and even the horses they ride are all Oriental horses...... And then it was exposed...... After all, the real Balu is very poor, and it is normal for the soldiers to patch their clothes, and the clothes and equipment of your whole team are brand new, and others don't believe it...... Also, at that time, the horses ridden by the Eighth Route Army were mainly local horses, and there were very few captured Oriental horses, which was also a flaw...... In short, the pirated version is better than the original, and it is also a flaw......

Marin longed to slap the craftsman in charge of counterfeiting French silver coins with a few big-eared scrapers—are you a tiger? It's so good that others can't see it? Moreover, in this era, there is no such standard and uniform silver coin. After all, it is made by hand, and the error is very large.

Also, the density of counterfeit silver coins is not well controlled. Because, both nickel and copper have a density of 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. The density of the two is naturally 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. However, silver and copper are alloys different. The density of silver is 10.53 grams per cubic centimeter, which is obviously higher than copper and nickel. In order to create a counterfeit silver coin that is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, it must not only look like it on the outside, but it must also be similar in size and density. After all, in this era, there is a very simple way to distinguish the authenticity of silver coins - the comparative method......

Experienced people only need to compare two silver coins and weigh them with a simple scale. Just take a real silver coin as a reference, and another silver coin can be seen by weighing and comparing it.

But it is precisely because of the simplicity and backwardness of this method that it gives Marin room to operate - as long as the density and appearance are about the same, it is difficult for people in this era to see.

In fact, Marin had made a counterfeit of lead, zinc and copper before. But that kind of counterfeit money is a big problem, why? Because the density of zinc is only 7.14 grams per cubic centimeter. To create a realistic counterfeit silver coin, you have to add more lead to fill in the density difference.

But the problem is that if you add too much lead, over time, the appearance of the "silver coin" will turn black. After blackening, you can use this fake silver coin as a pencil to write......

Nickel is as dense as copper, so you can add less lead when making counterfeit silver coins. As long as there is less lead, it is still not a big problem. As long as the lead is added, the density is about the same as that of the real coin, and because copper and nickel have the same density, you can put as much nickel as you want.

Moreover, the processing and smelting of Cuban laterite nickel ore is very simple. Although cobalt ore is associated with laterite nickel ore, the nickel nuggets obtained by the reduction reaction are fine even if they contain cobalt metal. Because the density of cobalt is also 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter......

However, the mining and smelting of copper ore is much more complicated, because the copper content of copper ore can reach 1%. Like the Fayilun copper mine, it can have a copper content of several percent, which is considered a rich mine.

In addition, more than half of the copper ore is associated minerals, often accompanied by a variety of associated minerals such as gold, silver and iron. Therefore, the screening of copper ore is very troublesome. The composition of laterite nickel ore is relatively simple, the metal is mainly nickel, with a small amount of cobalt and is relatively easy to handle.

In terms of mining and smelting costs, the production cost of nickel is much lower than that of copper. So, Marin would rather add a little more nickel. However, considering that he will be engaged in stainless steel in the future, he still saves a little more. But the first batch of counterfeit silver coins, Marin still added a lot of nickel. The reason for this is that the price of copper in Europe is too expensive...... Using too much copper, the cost is a bit high......

But in the future, if he can get cheap copper from the Ming Dynasty and Japan, he will still prefer to add more copper. After all, nickel is a rarer strategic metal resource than copper, as a whole.

That is to say, Marin is a traverser, and he happens to know that there are easy-to-find laterite nickel mines in Cuba, which makes the cost of obtaining nickel relatively low. In addition, this time, Marlin mainly lacked currency, so he used a large amount of nickel to make counterfeit money. If he could get a lot of cheap copper and silver, he wouldn't be willing to use nickel to make counterfeit money.

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This time, Wiltz did a great job in Cuba. After all, he is a mining engineer and is too experienced in mining. Marin obtained 50 tons of nickel metal at once this time, which is equivalent to 50 million grams. If you add 1 gram of nickel to each 1.5-gram counterfeit silver coin, you can make 50 million French Deniere silver coins!

What is the concept of 50 million deniers? The exchange ratio between the Deniers and the Imperial Finney is 2 to 1, that is, 50 million Dennier is equivalent to 25 million Fennir. And 60 fennils is equal to one Ducat, so 50 million deniers is equivalent to 416,700 gold coins......

Although there is a cost to minting, Marin can guarantee that he will be more profitable than the average country by replacing silver with nickel and minting with a screw press.

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The only problem now is that the counterfeit "French silver coins" counterfeited by the North Sea Mint are of very good quality. In order to solve this problem, Marin finally came up with a solution - the method of increasing the error......

What is the "Error Enhancement Method"? It is to make the mold of coinage rough. Then, a gap was deliberately created between the die and the base of the screw press. Once there is a gap, when the spiral coin press presses the counterfeit silver coin, the mold will slide, causing a pressing error, making the pressed silver coin a little skewed.

In addition, the mold engraving is also as rough as possible to make it look like it was made by hand. In addition to this, Marin ordered the engraving of hundreds of different crude steel money dies to suppress the fake French Denier silver coins.

After many adjustments, the craftsmen, under the direction of Marin, finally got the hang of it, making the vintage coin look rougher and closer to hand-crafted silver.

It is believed that after this batch of fake French silver coins worth 416,700 gold coins is successfully created, Marin will definitely be able to make more than half of the profit. But this is secondary, because only with enough coins can the market become more active.

Of course, this batch of counterfeit coins was placed on the French market, not the domestic market. What Marin has to do is to compete with the French government for seigniorage and hit the French treasury.

In order to disrupt the French market, Marin has asked the Paris branch of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce to secretly contact a large number of French financial businessmen. Then, through their hands, the counterfeit silver coins were exchanged for gold. Then, they were taken back to Germany and exchanged for real silver coins, which were brought back to the North Sea Kingdom for circulation.

In addition, these fake French silver coins are indistinguishable from people of this era. As a result, Marin could use his spree to buy valuable goods in France.

For example, French wine is very marketable in Europe and can be bought as hard currency. Also, French war horses can also be bought on a large scale with fake silver coins.

There is also the famous Charolais beef in France......

Even in later generations, the Charolais cattle were a well-known large beef cattle. The advantage of Charolais cattle is that they grow quickly and are large, which may not be much in later generations, but in this era, it is an extremely important advantage.

Why? Because in this era, cattle were not only used to eat meat, but also to plough the land. It is clear that large cattle have more strength than small cattle and are better suited to ploughing land.

For example, the British Angus cattle, although they grow quickly, are not large, and the adult bull weighs only 500 to 700 kilograms.

Charolais cattle, on the other hand, can grow to 500 kilograms in 12 months. Adult Charolais bulls can weigh between 1,100 and 1,200 kilograms, almost double the size of Angus bulls......

Of course, this is the data of later generations. In this day and age, Charolais numbers may not be so good. But it must have a great advantage as the mother of the famous cattle breed in later generations.

By the way, the data on the cattle exported by the Crimeans are not very good, not as good as the size of the Charolais cattle, and similar to the data of Angus cattle. That's why Marin was thinking about the Charolais cattle in France.

Therefore, Marin intends to take advantage of the opportunity of minting fake French silver coins this time to exchange French gold and buy valuable goods in France. And Charolais cattle, as an excellent meat and service breed, is also one of Marlin's important procurement targets, so they are purchased with minted fake silver coins, and they are ruthlessly pitted by the French......