The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Four pockets, there are really all kinds of messy coins: Southeast Asian countries, a very small number of colonial periods, and early Chinese coins that will flow back... There are many other coins that Zhang Nan can’t recognize at all. There are even many miscellaneous medals. ?? Bayi? Chinese Network ㈧?????

Add a few small denominations of cents and Hong Kong dollars in recent decades. Anyway, it's a mess!

Zhang Nan also flipped through it at will, and took out a small medal: he had seen the same one at a flea market in the UK.

The bronze badge is about 5 cm in diameter, four to five millimeters thick, and weighs about seventy to eighty grams.

The front of the bronze medal has patterns of ports, figures, horses, etc., and the back of the bronze medal is all in English: this bronze medal is a souvenir designed and casted by the British government to commemorate the completion of Devonport Port in 1824.

The figure on the front of the bronze seal is Neptune, the **** of the sea in Roman mythology. He stands on a chariot drawn by a seahorse facing Devonport Port, and the English on the back is to congratulate the completion of the port.

This bronze medal is basically intact, and even more beautiful than the one seen in the UK: that one costs £30.

And the other small bag of old silver coins is also full of tricks, messy and everything-from small denomination silver coins in the colonial period to a few silver Hong Kong dollar mice around 19oo.

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

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

Seeing Zhang Nan flipping around there, the director of the agricultural curator said to Manager Yu: "Xiao Zhang likes coins very much."

"Flip it slowly, that is, the small bag of silver has to be weighed. Choose whatever else you want. Copper and nickel are worthless."

Zhang Nan did not choose aluminum coins: aluminum is difficult to store, the quality is different, and he doesn't like the light and fluffy feeling of aluminum coins: some people play cents later, but he does not play, and there are few people in Jiangnan who speculate about aluminum cents. .

Zhang Nan finally took a casual look, straightening up and not looking for it: the curator of agriculture was negotiating with Manager Yu about the prices of the two strange-looking Buddha statues.

The two Buddha statues are not large in size, and the height is only 30 or 40 centimeters, but the price of the farm curator is not low, and a total of 80o yuan was opened.

"The old farmer is real, unlike the cultural relics store who keeps the gangsters blind and blind! Okay, no problem." Manager Yu agreed very happily.

There was also a large number of foreign bronzes. The curator of agriculture also looked through it and chose a dirty copper plate that was not rubbish, but the others didn't look at it.

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

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

Upon hearing the words of the agricultural curator, Manager Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry, you can sell it twice. Some people will ask for it. If you can earn more points, you can earn more points."

It's 133o, the director of the farm didn't bring so much money, but Zhang Nan did.

One big unity plus 33 photos.

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

"It's a lot."

When the curator heard this, he said on the side: "Lao Yu, don't worry about the money in the pocket. His sister is an entrepreneur, and his pocket money is more than the salary of the two of us."

It's not really nonsense, but it doesn't need to be drafted for this match-up.

Upon hearing this, Manager Yu asked the Xu Jinjie: "Xiao Xu, you have more weight than me, for you."

"Manager, according to the situation of the past two years, every time you deal with these old foreign money, including the bank exchange, copper and nickel are generally two to three times the price of metal, and silver coins sold to hawkers can be three to three times the price of silver. Quadruple."

"In this way, silver coins are three times the weight of the price, and copper and nickel are twice the price."

Manager Yu was very uplifted, obviously satisfied with today's harvest, and it was still in the face of the curator of agriculture.

There are scales in the warehouse. Silver coins are weighed on a small scale, which is three catties and two taels. Copper coins are 22 catties and nickel coins are 12 catties.

If you pay, Manager Yu is still dead and alive and don't issue a receipt, saying that there is something bought by Xiao Zhang today, which is not easy to put into the warehouse, so it is easy to operate.

In this case, the agricultural curator didn’t insist. Xiang Weirong and Qiu Bo, who were silent here, moved their things immediately. They came late at night. The tricky Zhang Nan here knows: It’s not easy for someone to make some money, right? It's not too much trouble.

The cooperation was pleasant, and Manager Yu’s suggestion to eat some supper was declined, and several people drove back.

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

Asked Nong Bosheng in the car.

"I like this. I have a special hobby for round coins, and I saw the Greek Athena Owl silver coin and a good copper medal in my pocket. It was not appropriate to choose it for too long. I guess I can add some collections."

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

The Athens Owl Silver Coin is a famous coin in ancient Greece: the front face of the coin is the image of the goddess Athena wearing an Attica helmet with 3 olive leaves on the tongue.

Although Athena is carved into the side, it seems that the eyes are looking forward. 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 crescent moon.

This is a typical Athens city-state coin: the owl is the guardian bird of Athena. It is said that it goes out at night to deliver messages to Athena and is a symbol of wisdom. This kind of coin is generally called the "owl" coin. One of the most important international currencies in the world.

"The Athens silver coin has been made for hundreds of years~www.readwn.com~ This is an Athens 4 drachma silver coin. The casting time of this style is about 45o BC. Xiao Zhang, you are lucky. This silver coin is in It’s worth at least tens of dollars abroad."

The curator of agriculture is worthy of studying Western archaeology, and he recognized it at a glance, and his tone is light: there is really no pursuit of money, and the absolute standard of old scholarship.

Zhang Nan looks down upon dozens of dollars, but the fun of coin collection is not only money. It is fun to have a variety that you don't have before, but you like, and there is also the pleasure of picking up a little.

"In this way, if there is any mess of foreign coins on Lao Yu's next trip, I will buy it for you first, and then you will get it."

"Okay, thanks a lot! By the way, the director of the farm, how can their company have these messy things, this is a lot."

"Who makes us lack a few kinds of non-ferrous metals? Yongcheng is also a big port. Every year, large quantities of non-ferrous metals are imported from all over the world, and there are a lot of waste.

Manager Yu’s company has been doing this for decades. Every batch of imported waste non-ferrous metals is messy and has everything, and cannot be thrown into the blast furnace without prior sorting. (To be continued.)