Chapter 462 A box of silver coins?
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It turns out that there is such a good thing. Jin Muchen felt that he was very open to his eyes when he heard it. The Australian government is quite authentic.
This point is similar to the private areas designated by the US government for Indians. Of course, although the Australian government has given these indigenous people some benefits, it is obviously not as generous as the Americans.
"By the way, Mr. Jin is an antique businessman from the United States. Uncle, don't you have a box of treasures? Are you interested in taking action? This Mr. Jin is a good person. If he approves of your things, he will definitely not lose to you."
It seemed that Morin suddenly remembered something and said to his uncle Morris, who was sitting next to him.
When Morris heard this, he slapped his thigh, as if he had remembered something, and then said to Jin Muchen.
"Mr. Jin, I have a box of silver coins, which should be considered antiques. Are you interested?"
The two of them were also direct enough. If they hadn't been in contact with them for so long, they could feel that they were kind-hearted people, Jin Muchen would definitely think that these two were acting double acts in front of him.
"Okay, you have something to check it out. If it's right, I will definitely give you a fair price."
Jin Muchen smiled and said to Morris. Morris didn't talk nonsense at all. £ directly stood up and said to Morris and the others: "Molin gives you your car keys. Mr. Jin and I will wait for me here for a while. I'll go home."
Morin threw away his car keys, and then Morris turned around and left, not even caring about his snack car. This guy is really in full swing.
"You have never said that your uncle still has so many antique silver coins in his house? Tell me what's going on?"
Jin Muchen asked Molin with a smile, and Molin shook his head.
"Haha, I suddenly remembered it while chatting with him. You also realized that he was short of money recently, and I remembered that thing. Those things are quite well-known. I saw them once when I was a child, but I never saw them again. However, when Uncle Morris told me stories, he often took out the silver coins for me to play with. However, I can't judge how high the value of those silver coins is. After all, we are not in this industry, and it depends on your own eyesight and judgment at that time."
This Morin is a honest person, and he doesn't pretend or exaggerate his words. Jin Muchen is becoming more and more satisfied with this kid.
"Okay, while Morris hasn't come back, tell me how those silver coins come from?"
Before, when Morin spoke of these silver coins, Jin Muchen felt that there must be a story here. He was particularly curious about the story behind this antique.
"Well. Okay, what do you think? The last time I saw those silver coins, I should have been ten years old. In my impression, it was a silver box, beautifully decorated, full of bright silver coins. I was very curious about those silver coins, and then Uncle Morris told me the story about these silver coins. In fact, you should know that he himself belonged to the stolen generation. When the police forcefully took him away from his grandfather and grandmother, he was only a few months old. Then he was given to a wealthy white family for adoption. Although those people adopted him, it was not out of good intentions. They just cared about their reputation and the government sent them a check. I really couldn't figure it out that they were so rich, but still..."
When Morin said this, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, as if he was glad that he had not caught up with that era.
Jin Muchen nodded and expressed his understanding. There is never a shortage of people in this world who love money as much as their lives. Some rich people even have the richer they love money, the more stingy they are...
"Although the family adopted Uncle Morris, it was not good to him. His status in that family was actually similar to that of the slaves in the past. They slept in the worst room, ate the worst food, and had to be a cattle and horse for others every day. When they were in school, they also worked as horsemen for the children of the family. When he was young, he didn't understand it very much, but when he got older and became sensible, he understood what was going on. So he started to leave the family early, and later when he was sixteen, he sneaked out of the house. However, when he escaped, he took away some things, including the box of silver coins. According to Uncle Morris, this should be considered the 'compensation' given to him by the family."
When Molin said this, Jin Muchen understood that the silver coins they mentioned should also fall into the category of robbery.
"Later, Uncle Morris found his grandfather, and then he went on to find my father with his grandfather and grandmother. During that time, their footprints spread throughout Australia. It took eight years to find my father. However, my father was lucky than Uncle Morris. He went to a good family and married a white girl..."
Molin talked about the past lightly, but Jin Muchen was no longer interested in the ones behind him. What he was interested in now was the box of silver coins that Molin mentioned.
I haven't found anything very good about this trip to Australia so far. I hope that the box of silver coins mentioned by Morin can bring some surprises to myself.
About half an hour later, Morris came back at lightning speed. When he came back, he had an extra backpack on his body. When he came to Jin Muchen and the others, he took out a box from it and pushed it in front of Jin Muchen.
"That's it, you can take a good look."
Jin Muchen took the box in front of him and did not rush to open it. The box was made very exquisitely. It was made of sterling silver on the outside. It used a lot of complicated filigree and carving techniques. Judging from the techniques used on the box, this should be a typical British-style jewelry box.
Many roses are carved on all four sides of the box, eighteen cm tall and thirty cm long. It is a typical dome-shaped design. The only pity is that there are no red and green gems inlaid on the box, only those sterling silver carved decorations and patterns.
However, there are more than a dozen coins inlaid on the box body. These coins look strange, but there is a round hollow in the middle. If the shape is, it is more similar to the copper coins issued by various dynasties in ancient China.
However, Chinese copper coins are all round square holes, and this one is round round holes.
There are also some small words engraved on these silver coins, which Jin Muchen did not look closely.
Because the box itself is already flashing with jewelry, this means that the box must be of a big origin. As for these silver coins, he is not sure whether it was the decoration specially carved when designing the box or the silver coins that were originally issued.
He has also studied the history of currency development in Europe and the United States, and has never heard of the British issuing such a silver coin with holes.
After all, when Britain issued silver coins, Australia was still their colony and used the same monetary system as them, so he was not sure that the silver coins had indeed existed in history.
But now is not the time to care about these things. After all, the silver coins in the box are the key.
He opened the box and all kinds of white colors flashed inside, but in terms of brightness, it was much brighter than the box containing these silver coins.
Jin Muchen probably already had a clue in his mind. Compared with the silver coins in this box, this box should be the highlight. It’s a pity that Morris and uncle and nephew Morlin didn’t know Mount Tai, and even regarded the silver coins in this box as treasures.
It seems that what they are going to do this time is to buy a box and return a bead, but Jin Muchen will not point it out. He is an antique businessman, not a saint. This is how it is to do business. If you don’t know the goods yourself, don’t blame others for their abilities.
However, although the jewelry aura emitted by the silver coins in this box was much weaker than the box outside, when Jin Muchen reached in and carefully pulled open the silver coins, and saw the coins clearly, he couldn't help but take a breath.
It seems that the original owner of this box was either Grandet or a guy who liked to collect these coins very much, because the variety of coins full of them is really comprehensive, and many of them are even very precious.
For example, the gold pounds that Jin Muchen saw with a denomination of one pound issued by the UK in 1900 were the most solid hard currency of the year, and its status was equivalent to the current US dollar.
Of course, it is not that it is particularly precious, it is just that it has a particularly high status in the history of gold coins and has a particularly wide circulation.
The circulation of this gold pound was not small at the beginning, and of course only wealthy people could afford it. Moreover, due to international trade at that time, the circulation of this gold pound was very widespread, and a total of millions were manufactured.
On the front is the portrait of Queen Victoria, on the back is an ancient Roman knight holding a short sword and charging on the horse. Under the horse's hooves, there is a dying dragon.
The gold coins are exquisitely crafted and well maintained. They have been around for more than a hundred years, but these gold coins still look golden.
Now this kind of gold pound is a very popular variety in the collection industry. Although it is large in existence, it is still popular among collectors. After all, this thing has a very special historical significance.
The value of every such gold coin on the market is about 500 to 800 US dollars, which mainly depends on the quality and manufacturing age of the gold coin.
However, these gold pounds are not the most precious of this box of gold and silver coins. The few German gold marks I saw next made Jin Muchen even more stunned.
Chapter completed!