The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"...Little Charlie, will anyone claim the 5 cents after the gilding process? Even if the police do not pursue the 5 cents, they will only get 5 cents in the end, so that Tatum fraud method It is almost impeccable.

Because he can’t speak, he doesn’t need to remind the clerk that I gave you 5 cents, not five dollars, and the other party gave him a gift. As a good citizen, he can of course take it with ease. "

The perfect deception was impeccable in the United States at the time, but in other countries, the police estimated that there were a thousand ways for the Tatum to spit out the money!

Charlize Theron obviously learned something in the story told by Zhang Nan, and he remained thoughtful for a while.

The practice of using gold-plated nickel coins to pretend to be gold coins shocked the U.S. Mint. The production of nickel coins with the head of the Statue of Liberty was soon stopped, and the design was revised and reissued in June of that year.

"If the 1913 version of the V-shaped nickel coin was issued, it would be at least millions of dollars."

Zhang Nan is looking forward to Shu.

"Can you find it?"

Little Charlie was very naive, and Zhang Nan shook her head and said: "Impossible. At the beginning, five prototypes were trial-produced, all in the hands of private collectors. The Mint started producing a new version of the Bison Indian Chief 5 cents that year."

A coin is tens of millions. Many copycat auction companies of later generations like to use this as a gimmick to defraud the people of money.

Taking advantage of people's desire to make a fortune, a copper plate is valued at 500,000, and a 2% publicity appraisal fee is paid first, and then asks for help to set up an auction site, and then...passes the auction.

This is not bad, the hooligans will not go through the scene at all, and will be dragged for you, or just one sentence: stray shots.

In fact, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such rare coins, because it is impossible for them to appear in you or your ancestor’s coin purse.

None of them have been issued. The samples were taken away by powerful affiliates or officials when they were manufactured. There is nothing wrong with your ordinary people at all!

Here, Charlize Theron put this small nickel coin in his wallet again, no one would ask for the fruits of her labor, put on headphones and start working again.

After searching for more than ten meters, I dug up 5 one-cent coins. Although they are all products from the 1930s and 1940s and the price is not high, the fun is there.

Every time Zhang Nan detected an anomaly, Xiao Nizi was asked to dig it, and the detector was not light, and soon the detector in Xiao Charlie's hands was in the hands of Guan Xingquan, who has rich detection experience.

Everyone play it.

Let her dig whenever there is a change, and children like this hands-on process.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, only five or six meters away from the original toilet cabin, the little girl dug up another 25-cent copper coin with Lincoln's head on it.

"Ellen, good stuff, it's different from just now!"

With excitement, Charlize Theron saved all his "brother", so excited! But after a little washing with water, the little girl was stunned!

On the front of the coin is Lincoln's head, but on the back is a goose pattern. There is a big "1" in the middle of the "goose", and there is a circle of words on the top: "Red goose brand leather shoes can be worn by boys and girls!"

After reciting the words on the back, Charlie held the exquisitely crafted coin in her hand, a little confused about the situation.

"What is this stuff?"

Xiao Nizi's face was dumbfounded, and it was not surprising for others to see the thing clearly: this was a small thing that was quite common in China and the United States thirty or forty years ago.

The big deal is that these kinds of things are made by hand in China, and the United States is basically machine-made with fine workmanship.

Zhang Nan looked at it and said, "Charlie, this is a token. It says that it is leather shoes. It should be customized by the brand that sells shoes.

There are many such tokens in the United States before, and they are used in all walks of life. For example, tokens issued by railway companies are often used when taking trains, and they can often be used as ordinary change in the West..."

Xiao Chali now understands that this kind of token is a small denomination coin that was previously issued by unofficial institutions and used within a specific range, some of which were even issued by the National Bank.

Zhang Nan said that the Bank of England in the United Kingdom issued surrogate silver coins at the beginning of the 19th century-very strange, the National Bank did not issue enough official currency, but instead issued tokens.

The coin in his hand is not an official coin, and Charlize Theron is a bit disappointed.

Zhang Nan saw her expression and comforted: "This kind of token is still very popular among collectors in the United States. I am not very familiar with this, because there are too many varieties, and many have geographic restrictions, but it is estimated to be a few dollars. Not less.

And it also represents an era when people are accustomed to using tokens as official currency, and it still has its collection value..."

The collection of American tokens is a kind of culture, and it was even more so before the liberation of China.

For example, in Chongren, a big town near my brother-in-law Xiang Weirong’s hometown, before liberation, a local big landlord bully issued a marked bamboo sign in his bank, which can be directly used as money in the local area, and before liberation It is very common throughout China.

Unlike today's game currency, the original token currency is actually a kind of "currency" that guarantees credit, and has its own value.

Continuing to explore, Xiao Zalli was still talking about it, hoping to get a silver coin: treasure hunt, if you don't find even a silver coin, then how can it be called treasure hunt.

Then, she was content to find a Mercury ten cents.

After coming out of the soil, there is only a thin layer of soil on top, which will be cleaned by rubbing.

"Silver coin! It was made in 1916, it's so beautiful!"

Xiao Nizi was very happy, and what Zhang Nan said made her happier: "This is not an ordinary Mercury 10 cents, it is the 1916 D version, it is the 10 cents produced by the Denver Mint.

At first, only 264,000 of these coins were issued, and now they are definitely the target of collectors.

Like this relatively well-preserved 1916D Mercury for 10 cents, it is currently worth at least $1,500.

The remaining editions have a circulation of more than 10 million in cents, and the price of ordinary products ends at 10 dollars. "

Charlize Theron is happier, this is really a small fortune.

But Charlie is generous and not greedy for money, so she wants to give Zhang Nan the silver coins.

No answer, "What you dug out, of course it belongs to you."

The little girl pointed at everyone and said, "No, we are partners, we looked for it together."

Zhang Nan thought for a while, "Then you can invite us to town for a drink after dinner."

"no problem!"

Charlie was very generous.

There is a small town near the camp, with a bar above it, and it is a farming and pastoral area. The customers of the bar are all locals, not as messy as New York, let alone the regulation of drinking at the age of 21.

After finding the 30-meter "Golden Avenue", everyone left and returned to the camp.

Zhang Nan smiled at Guan Xingquan while the little girl was not paying attention: He originally had a cent in his pocket, and Guan Boss is now using small silver coins to practice finger dexterity when he is bored, a small souvenir from Berchtesgaden one.

Except for Little Charlie, everyone else knew about it, but no one said it just now.