The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Sending the juice to the deck, Zhang Nan took it from the tray and habitually said: "Thank you, Tom."

I am a little thirsty.

As for the kind words to the housekeeper, we don’t know if other western aristocrats and rich people who employ housekeepers and servants have this habit. Anyway, Zhang Nan’s family has always been like this.

It's not that the so-called superiors are playing tricks on the etiquette of the inferior. Zhang Nan was a human being, of course, he knew that he was born unfair.

However, my grassroots background makes him carry the concept of "people should be equal" in his bones.

Another glass of juice was brought in front of Nikolai. The big guy was taken aback for a moment, and then took it after seeing Tom's eyes, also thanking him.

Unlike Zhang Nan, he took two sips first and then habitually held the cup in his hand. Nicholas drank the juice in one sip and then returned the cup to Tom.

Once a professional boxer, now he is a bodyguard. He doesn't like to hold a cup in his hand for a long time, it would feel uncomfortable.

No one is jealous of the treatment of a big man. It is his right for Mr. Butler to give someone a drink. The people around him think it is normal, and Tom is a respectable person.

After drinking more than half, Zhang Nan handed the cup back to Tom, and the salvage basket here will soon be watered.

When Tom was about to leave, Nikolai pulled him quietly and whispered: "Mr. Tom, there is something I didn't understand just now, I want to ask you."

There are other people here, "sir" still has to be added.

Tom stopped his steps and said, "You said."

"The one you just mentioned... who is the Agatha Christie who wrote the novel?" Nikolai Varuev looked curious.

"This..." Tom felt that he had to organize his words so as not to dampen the curiosity of this young man.

The big guy is Russian. Maybe I have seen the classic movies based on the novel written by Agatha, or maybe they haven't.

But even if I read it, I don’t pay attention to who the original author is.

Later, his own butler was briefly popularizing the knowledge of suspense novels for his new meat shield. Zhang Nan had no time to pay attention, because the big salvage basket was out of water.

The basket was lowered on the deck by the hoist, the hoisting cable was unhooked and removed, and Zhang Nan stepped forward.

Good guy, I knew before that this big basket was at least four or fifty big gold ingots, and there could be thousands of gold coins on the other side of the grid. As for the silver coins piled up in the gold ingot grid, there are even more!

The gold ingots were invisible, covered by a large number of silver coins and a small amount of adulterated gold coins, which was tightly covered.

The silver coins piled on top of the gold ingots, not on top of the gold coins. The guys in the submersible pressed and rubbed the gold coins underneath in order to prevent too many silver coins.

In the past few years, the Western ancient coin collection market has become the king of appearance, and barbaric operations are not necessary.

And these gold ingots are almost ugly with rust all over, it really doesn't matter if you hit two hammers, it's okay to squeeze a bit of silver.

Judging from the salvaged items in this box, in order to deal with the run wind caused by the economic crisis, the gold reserves were transferred. In fact, a large amount of silver coins were transported to the east at the same time. This large quantity of silver coins is also a hard currency that can stabilize people's hearts.

The person in charge of moving and cleaning the deck stepped forward and took the silver coins first.

The influence of sea water on silver coins is real. Many of them have heavy rust on the surface. You don’t need to be too particular about them. Just put them in a pile of strong plastic boxes and lift them away. Follow-up cleaning and statistics are all Things after landing.

Zhang Nan probably took a look. Among the tens of thousands of silver coins, they were basically the one-dollar silver coin of the Statue of Liberty that was minted in 1840, and many of them were still glued together.

There are actually a lot of Mexican Eagle Oceans in sticky long tube state. It should be tube count when entering the water that year. Most of them were cast in the 1930s and 1940s.

At that meeting more than a hundred years ago, silver was really money everywhere. It seems that American banks didn't mind storing Mexican eagles, which are top-notch in weight and silver content.

This pile of silver coins seems to have almost tens of thousands, which is almost 300 kilograms. After moving for a while, you have to pick out the gold coins that are mixed in, and it will be more troublesome to clean up later.

"The Western world has always liked to wash coins these years. If these silver dollars are slowly rusted by hand, the labor cost is definitely not small. No wonder those people like to use chemicals to remove rust, but the atmosphere of coin washing is not good."

I thought about it in my head, but I quickly focused on the pile of gold coins.

They are basically double eagle coins minted in 1857, but there are also a few special items. For example, there are dozens of Mexican 8 escudos from the early 19th century, and several Dutch gold coins, even Peruvian gold coins... .

Hodgepodge.

Zhang Nan likes hodgepodge, which may add new varieties to his collection; other people also like hodgepodge, because relatively rare varieties may appear in it, which can increase the value of this batch of treasures.

Gold coins can't be boxed. In addition to the water basin, the ship also prepares very special equipment-a pile of "pipes", gold coins can be stacked in, and the water can be filled as usual.

Busy for a while, when the deck emptied, almost missed the meal.

This is the location on the sea bottom. The three submersible operators have just had lunch, but they can’t be as big as the guys on the ship. The food in the submersible is high in energy, balanced in nutrition, but with little residue. In kind.

The new salvage basket has long been put down, and the work has just started today, and the three of them are not tired.

Continue to work as soon as you finish eating, because it will be the overall clean-up of almost half of the sunken ship. The work cannot be rushed. You can't just stare at the location of the vault, but need to go down layer by layer.

Of course, the location of the treasury will be the focus, and it will also be the first batch of areas to be completely cleaned up. The price-performance ratio is. You don't know if there will be any special circumstances that will interrupt the salvage operation in the future.

This will be the youngest Jack operator manipulator in the deep submersible~www.readwn.com~, working on it, and suddenly said to the other two people: "Come here and take a look. What is this?

box? "

The other two leaned forward, and through the thick glass, under the strong light, they could see about 20 centimeters in front of the right robotic arm. After removing the original cover of the upper layer, a dark band was exposed. Point the arc.

"It should be a suitcase, it's rare, it hasn't been worn out in the sea for so many years..."

One humane.

"It may be that there are a lot of copper skins on the outside of the cowhide after the anti-corrosion treatment. Some similar suitcases have not been worn out for two to three hundred years on the seabed. It is not particularly strange..."

When Jack heard the words of the two companions, he controlled the two mechanical arms and carefully lifted the box out and moved it into the salvage basket.

Not only gold coins and other treasures, as long as the man-made solid objects found during cleaning, if possible, they will be fished out of the sea, except for the iron ribs of the ship.

The iron ribs and everything that can be removed have been moved beyond the scope of the sunken ship, so as not to get in the way.