The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"Perhaps the Carthaginians thought that if they left their treasures on the island of Ibiza, they would one day fall into the hands of the Romans. It is impossible for the Romans to leave such a good island without development and use. Come up to the island hidden here."

Very good plan. Those Romans will never be able to enjoy these wealth anymore. The final plan of the Carthaginians obviously succeeded.

At this point, the sky is no longer bright, not because of the weather, but near dusk.

So far today, Liu Wendong went down to the treasure cave again, brought up six or seven kilograms of coins, put them in a cloth bag and prepared to take them back to the super five-star camp. In the evening, Zhang Nan had to find something for himself: it was originally there. An ultra-luxury loose resort.

The silver coins classified in the front are also put into different pockets, so as not to spend time sorting them out.

Pulling off the ladder, I saw that Kunkka got on the excavator, and directly moved a piece of stone weighing one or two tons to cover the exposed crack in the rock.

No one felt an unexpected reaction. This was the best way to dispel their suspicions: this is a private island, and everything above it belongs to the boss in the eyes of the bodyguards and crew.

Underground cultural relics?

Spain does not even have administrative jurisdiction here, unless the island owner makes an invitation or request to Spain, otherwise the Spanish police cannot go to the island.

Under what circumstances will the police be needed?

Zhang Nan doesn't need it. The previous island owner may need it. He is playing a top resort island: For example, if a life case occurs on the island, the Spanish police will have to deal with it.

You don't need a car, just two steps away.

I didn't have the time to take a closer look at my island just now. I would look at it as I walked, and then said something interesting to the person nearby: "How do I feel that this is a bit like a lens in a movie?"

"Which one?"

The interface is Captain Philip, and the boss has to be supported by someone.

"Detective Polo, the scenery is really good, but a few beautiful girls are missing."

Everyone is speechless!

It's a bit like, the same is a resort island in the Mediterranean, but the storyline is a bit different from the atmosphere of this club.

…

The huge freshwater swimming pool is now empty, and above the swimming pool is a single-storey exclusive villa.

The sea view is invincible, and the boss has only two bedrooms in a house.

As soon as he put down his luggage, Zhang Nan, accompanied by Thomas, went down to the underground treasure house connected to his villa.

There are two blast doors that are not particularly thick, which can be cut open with a cutting machine: this was originally an underground wine cellar on the resort island, but it was slightly modified.

The place is big enough, and I don’t know why the former island owner wanted to build such a large wine cellar. It’s no problem to stuff a few thousand tons of treasure.

The treasure house is now empty, and there are a lot of thick iron shelves prepared for precious metal ingots such as gold and platinum.

Thomas said on the side: "We plan to store them in accordance with the principle of zoning to avoid errors. After the final storage, we will compare them with the ledger.

The security here mainly depends on the particularity of the island itself, as well as the guards on the island.

This will also be a training camp for the combined forces, at least on the surface, the guards will be rotated.

This area near the treasure house will be an exclusive area for you and your family to vacation. The guards in rotation will only know that they are guarding your private island and train by the way. "

Those explosion-proof doors and the outer shield design can prevent general vandalism and theft. The safety of the babies is not dead.

Theft to a training camp of a defense contracting company? The difficulty is estimated to be greater than robbing a police station in downtown New York.

However, Zhang Nan was a little curious and asked, "What can be trained here?"

Thomas smiled awkwardly, "Rock climbing, downhill and swimming."

It’s just a little bit bigger to think about it. These training camps are just excuses for the nearby Spaniards and the yachts passing by on the sea, hundreds of yards away recently.

Although private islands do not have the concept of "territorial waters", outside ships generally do not approach the private islands within three to five hundred meters, even if the scenery is good.

Some private island owners have a bad temper, and it is possible to target you with a machine gun if they are too close!

It was already dark after coming out of the warehouse, and a group of people went to the camp restaurant to eat, which was originally the restaurant center on the island.

Luxurious and extravagant.

Some time ago, the rectification did not turn it into a troop-like camp. Since it has been renovated, the guards here can enjoy the best facilities, but they lack the best services.

There is no waiter, so you have to do everything yourself. The most extravagant service is that there are two cooks who can cook.

The ingredients for dinner are very fresh, and every three days someone will drive the procurement boat converted from the fishing boat to Ibiza. People outside the island are not allowed to go to the island, at most during this period of construction time, when possible, the Spanish cargo ships are notified to bring the necessary bulk materials.

After dinner, have a beer or canned drink in the camp salon where the party can be held.

Zhang Nan is a bit boring. The formal cargo storage will start from tomorrow morning. He simply asks Liu Wendong to fetch the last bag of coins dug out and pour it on the coffee table to start the selection.

The Carthages can be regarded as a true seafaring and trading nation. A pile of currencies covers the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, plus it is guessed that it is the last treasure of the empire, as long as it is precious metal, pour one piece.

Chaos, many really don't know, no country can be called up.

When the guys saw that the boss was choosing antiques again, a few people came to watch the excitement.

Gold coins, silver coins, big, small, delicate, rough...

Captain Philip seemed to have found an interesting one and picked it out from the pile of coins on the coffee table.

"It's in the treasures of 120 BC, it's rare."

Hearing the words of Mr. Captain, he was identifying an Alexander gold coin to see if it was made in another city. Zhang Nan raised his head and glanced at the crude coin.

In Philip's hands, he didn't see clearly.

Before he had time to ask, Randy said the thoughts of everyone on the side: "What's so special?"

"This is a Lydia lion platinum coin, the earliest metal currency in the world."

Zhang Nan still did not speak, the others looked curious, and Mr. Captain continued to say...

Most people don't even know where this Lydia is!

"Lydia is an ancient country that was established in 1300 BC or earlier, and died in 546 BC. It is located in the central and western part of Asia Minor on the edge of the Aegean Sea, which is the northwestern part of today's Turkey. It is said that its capital Sadi It was very rich and magnificent at first, and it was one of the largest cities in the world.

It began to mint around 660 BC, and may be the first country to use minting. "

When Lin Man heard this, he said: "It has been more than 2,600 years, great!"

"Well, at the beginning, Lydia was rich in silver and gold, which is a kind of mixed mineral of gold and silver. The Lydians used this white gold to make the world's earliest metal currency.

To be clear, the Lydians were the first to mint and use gold and silver currency. Archaeology has also confirmed this. Now the earliest known minting appeared in Lydia. "

Speaking of this, Philip handed the coin in his hand to Linman next to him, and said: "Because the head of a lion often appears on Lydia's currency, it is also called a lion coin.

This is the earliest form of the Lydia coin, and it looks like a solidified drop. There is a simple mark on one side, and some scratches on the other side, which looks like a lion's head carefully.

This coin is said to be made by the Greek immigrants in this area or the king of Lydia at that time. Later, the last king of Lydia, Crusius, was made from 561 BC to 546 BC. At that time, Lydia also appeared in pure gold and silver metal coins.

At that time, the lion and bull head pattern appeared on Lydia's currency, which was more refined than this early currency. It was during this period that Lydia's coin-making technology was introduced to Greece, and ancient Greece began to have its own currency-making technology. "

The people around were amazed at the magical status of this little currency. Zhang Nan asked Mr. Captain: "Philip, you know that?"

Philip smiled and said, "I have had more contact with you, and I read books. I have a lot of free time. Whether at home or on a boat, I like to read books to pass the time."

Reading is a good thing, but you can’t read everything as a good book, right?

"Your book was written by a Western history or numismatic expert?"

Philip nodded.

has a problem.

After seeing him nodding, Zhang Nan took the silver coin from Boss Guan who had turned a circle, and took a closer look: "It should be a silver-gold alloy. This coin is a precious metal. This is the earliest in the world. Minted precious metal currency may be, but it is definitely not the earliest minted metal currency.

The one who wrote the book had no vision and was misleading.

In China, from about 1600 BC to 1046 BC, there was a dynasty called Shang, which was also the second dynasty in the history of China.

Large transactions in the Shang Dynasty used a certain standard of copper to measure transactions, and small amounts generally used a shell coin as currency. Those shells were also China's earliest currency discovered so far.

The most common natural sea shells used as currency are tooth shells, which have grooves on their abdomen and bulge on their backs, which are also called shells and treasures.

However, due to the insufficient number of natural seashells, in the late Shang Dynasty, there appeared unwritten copper imitation shells. In 1971, a batch of bronze imitation cast shells, totaling 109 pieces, was unearthed from a Shang Dynasty tomb in Baode County, Huaxia Jin Province.

The shape of this batch of copper shells is very similar to natural shells, with alveoli on the surface and flat back. The weight is relatively balanced, with an average weight of about 8 grams.

Purposefully using bronze to imitate the shape of sea shells and cast copper shells for use as currency, it should be said that it is a big step forward than using sea shells grown in nature as the original currency. These bronze shells have also been recognized as the origin of the current Chinese metal coinage. .

It was the Zhou dynasty of China that destroyed the Shang dynasty. According to time, it can be divided into two parts: the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Western Zhou Dynasty came before, and it existed from 1046 BC to 771 BC.

At present, archaeological discoveries have revealed that bronze currencies with round holes have been unearthed in the tombs of some nobles in the Western Zhou Dynasty..."

Well, everyone has learned again: this lion coin is definitely not the earliest minted metal currency in the world, because not to mention the Shang dynasty, even the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty's demise was more than a hundred years earlier than it!

The time when Huaxia's minted metal currency appeared was the first in the world!

However, Zhang Nan hadn’t finished speaking, and said: “It’s a pity that China had very low silver production more than 2000 years ago, so copper and gold were generally used as metal currency materials before the Christian era. The earliest gold currency was from the Kingdom of Chu during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Ying Yan has a history of at least 2500 years.

It is a very interesting and beautiful currency: a rectangular gold plate weighing about 250 grams, which is one jin in the first place.

There are usually 50 stamps on the top, and they are cut along the stamps during the transaction. Each small piece is an average of 5 grams.

However, it is difficult to say how many years this kind of currency has appeared, because the countries that minted and used this kind of gold currency have existed for a very long time, from 1015 BC to 223 BC, which is almost 800 years.

And because of its special structure, you can count it as a minted currency. It is a pity to say that it is a weighing currency. "

Zhang Nan feels a bit pity, because if the time is clear, the world's earliest precious metal minted currency and gold minted currency may not be the turn of the Lydia lion coin. "

After hearing this, Philip was not embarrassed. It was just what he reads. Westerners didn't know enough about China at first, let alone the history of China.

Besides, Lydia is a country in Asia Minor that has disappeared for more than 2500 years. For Philip, is it the world's first thing to do?

The bodyguards have gained a bit of knowledge, especially the folks from China, it feels so good about another world number one being China!

Several people have this idea in their minds: "The historical background of the world's four ancient civilizations is inconsistent, and those messy small countries are incomparable. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com"

Then…

It was Alyosha, who was the big guy who played the role of the curious baby, who made him "upright".

"Boss, what currency did Babylon and Ancient Egypt use at that time?"

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said: "The Babylonians don't have metal currency. They mainly use bartering methods. However, bulk goods are generally traded in metal blocks such as gold, silver and copper, but they cannot be considered as minted currency.

As for ancient Egypt, it refers to the period of ancient Egypt before it was conquered by Persia before 525 BC. At that time, ancient Egypt did not form a real currency system, and it relied on the exchange of goods.

However, the ancient Egyptians at that time still had a set of guidelines. The medium was gold, silver, and copper. The basic unit of weight was called Deben.

One Deben is equivalent to about 90 grams now, under Deben is Kate, and one Deben is equivalent to 10 Kates, and the ratio of gold, silver, and bronze is 1:2:100.

An analogy: a cow asks for 30 copper German books. In addition to paying for the copper German books, I can also use the silver kate equivalent to 30 copper German books to pay, or other items equivalent to 30 copper German books, such as Barley and cloth will be paid. "

The unlucky ancient India has been neglected again. Who made its history more than cut off, the existence of ancient India has not been discovered for many years!

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