Happy Tycoon
Chapter 441: gold
The cave above his head is not straight up and down, so Yang Jing can easily climb up even with a static rope.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Chris lit a burning stick and threw it up. After seeing the burning stick still burning, Yang Jing climbed up with Grid on his back. Of course, to be on the safe side, both people wear gas masks.
Gege couldn't climb up, but Yang Jing's physique and strength were all right. He carried Gege on his back very easily, so Yang Jing became the second brother again.
This is also a natural cave with a height of more than three meters and a radius of about seven or eight meters. There are several cracks extending from the top of the cave all the way up. I don’t know where it extends, but there are continuous cracks. When dripping water and approaching these cracks at the same time, you can vaguely feel the presence of wind.
Obviously, these cracks should lead to the outside, and because it is limestone, the snow melt flows in through the cracks, and then after tens of thousands of years, this cave and the cave below are finally formed. .
It’s just that Yang Jing is really hard to understand, how did the "Sea Snake" Boardman find such a remote cave.
Anyway, Yang Jing asked himself, if he changed himself, I'm afraid I couldn't find such a place.
These are not important, the important thing is that there are glittering things scattered all over this cave. Gold coins and utensils made of gold almost filled the ground of this cave. Among them, you can see a lot of wood that has decayed.
Obviously, these gold should have been packed in wooden boxes or barrels, but after so many years, the outer packaging had already decayed, and the gold naturally spilled out.
Grid took off the gas mask and his eyes lit up, "Wow, Yang Jing, have we made a fortune? A lot of gold..."
Gege has never seen such a scene even though she has been a child. This scene is still full of shock for her.
Yang Jing smiled and nodded and said: "It is indeed a fortune, daughter-in-law, pick whatever you like. These are ours!"
Grid screamed excitedly, and walked over on tiptoe. This girl was also worried that she would trample on the gold coins on the ground.
Chris and the others climbed up, and when they saw this full of gold, they screamed.
In front of such a shocking treasure, it is really hard to calm down. Even if there is not much gold here, this is a legendary pirate treasure after all, and this group of people found it personally. Of course they are excited. They also have the right to be excited!
A bunch of people laughed and danced on top, but the big white below didn’t know what had happened. It only knew that the guy who was best to him had disappeared?
So, there were bursts of roars from below, Yang Jing couldn't help but went down to soothe Da Bai, which made it obediently lie down and guard.
When Yang Jing came up again, this group of people had already started to clean up the scattered gold.
Gege flushed with excitement on her face, and she took Yang Jing's arm and asked: "Yang Jing, I don't think you are very excited? Didn't you put these treasures in your eyes?"
Yang Jing smiled and said: "It's not that I don't care about it, but I am almost immune to gold now. When I went to the Caribbean last year, I found a sunken yacht and found a full forty on it. Tons of gold. There is more gold than the gold in front of you."
These gold seem to be quite a lot, but Yang Jing, you guessed it, at most it is two or three tons. Gold coins and gold utensils are different from gold bars. Under the same volume, the weight of gold bars far exceeds that of gold coins and gold products, so these gold looks a lot, but the actual weight is not that much.
Yang Jing, who has experienced the baptism of Mutianbo Treasure and Gaddafi Treasure, how can he appreciate the gold?
"Is that the gold you entrusted Mr. Zhao to sell?" Yang Jing mentioned this to Grid, so Grid knew.
"Yeah." Yang Jing nodded, just about to continue explaining, suddenly he moved his eyes and quickly said, "Lin Zi, take the gold coins in your hand and let me have a look."
Lin Dan was taken aback, holding more than 20 gold coins in both hands, and Yang Jing nodded.
Among the more than 20 gold coins that Lin Dan took over, most of them were gold coins minted in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. There were also several French gold coins of the same period, the Golden Louis, the British gold coin, and the Dutch lion gold coin. The gold coins from different countries appeared together, which is enough to prove that this treasure should be Bashalomu who robbed the port of Trebasa, and gave all the gold from the looting to Boardman and sent it to be hidden here.
Although the Port of Trebaz was controlled by the Spaniards, there were many British, French, Dutch and even Germans in that port. The brave daring of Bashaloumi took the entire Port of Trebassi, and naturally none of the businessmen from various countries could escape. Naturally, all the gold coins they carried fell into Bashaloumi's hands.
But this is not the main reason that attracts Yang Jing. What attracts Yang Jing is that in this handful of gold coins, they are gold coins that are a circle larger than the other gold coins.
Most of the other gold coins are about 25mm in diameter, but this gold coin is almost 40mm in diameter. Such a large gold coin is put together with other gold coins, just like a dollar coin in the national currency and a pile of five-point coins. Together, they are particularly conspicuous.
Yang Jing gently squeezed the gold coin, just glanced at it, and immediately distinguished the identity of the gold coin.
This gold coin with a shield pattern printed on both sides turned out to be a rare Spanish eight-shaped escudo gold coin.
Escudo means "shield" in Spanish and is a currency unit. When Spain spread across the world, this currency was not only used in Spain, but also the main currency in Spanish colonies.
At that time, in addition to escudos, Spain’s gold coins also had Doblonds, which were the highest denominations of Spanish gold coins. The Doblonds could be exchanged for eight escudos; there was another type called Pisto The face value of this kind of gold coin is equivalent to two escudos.
However, at the end of the 16th century, the Spanish royal family issued a gold coin similar to a commemorative coin, called the Royal Eight-character Escudo gold coin. This kind of gold coin is very large, larger than the gold coins in circulation on the market, so the gold content is also Very full.
The number of gold coins issued is not large, so there are very few in circulation on the market. In modern times, in addition to the only 20 royal eight-shaped Escudo gold coins kept in major museums around the world, in July 2015, a salvage company from Florida, the United States left a ship from 1715. Nine such gold coins were salvaged from a sunken Spanish sailing ship.
In other words, there are only 29 Spanish royal eight-shaped Escudo gold coins produced at the end of the sixteenth century.
In the world coin collection auction held in New York at the beginning of this year, one such gold coin sold for a sky-high price of US$456,000.
In other words, the value of such a figure eight escudo gold coin can top the value of other gold coins in this handful of gold coins.
In Lin Dan’s handful of gold coins, apart from this figure eight escudo, the remaining gold coins have a collectible value between US$10,000 and US$20,000.
In other words, Lin Dan’s handful of twenty or so gold coins would be worth about US$800,000 to US$900,000 if it was auctioned!
And how many gold coins are there? How many royal eight-shaped Escudo gold coins are there?
Don’t be too many, as long as you find ten royal eight-shaped Escudo gold coins from these gold coins, then all the expenses of this trip will be returned!
Not to mention that in these gold coins, in addition to the royal figure eight-shaped Escudo gold coins, there are many other gold coins that are not low in collection value.
It was as if Yang Jing searched for it by himself, only to pull it for a short while, and from these scattered gold coins, he picked out two Dutch Dukat gold coins minted in 1652.
Ducati gold coin is the earliest currency in circulation minted by merchants in Venice, Italy. Because the gold content is as high as 99.7%, this kind of gold coin was very popular with European merchants at that time when it was launched in the first 13th century. Some European countries also mint Ducati gold coins as their own national currency, such as Switzerland, such as the Netherlands.
At an auction held in Geneva, Switzerland in 2014, a Ducat gold coin minted in 1741 was sold at a sky-high price of 800,000 Swiss francs, which is even more valuable than the figure eight escudo.
The two Ducat gold coins minted by the Dutch that Yang Jing discovered are also extremely rare gold coins. The value of this Dutch Ducat gold coin may not be as valuable as the Swiss Ducat gold coin, but if it is auctioned, its value is definitely not worse than the Spanish royal eight-shaped escudo gold coin just discovered!
And Yang Jing also discovered a gold coin called Caroline that was circulating in Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The collection value of this kind of gold coin is not low, one is worth about 160,000 euros!
These gold coins are scattered all over the place, at least there are more than two thousand, even if one tenth of the precious gold coins are found among them, the value of these gold coins alone is over 100 million U.S. dollars!
Don’t forget, not only these gold coins are here, but there are more tools made of gold. These gold utensils, which are obviously raided from Latin America, have a distinct Central and South American style.
All kinds of gold utensils, gold jewelry, and even gold weapons and gold armor are all here!
Apart from anything else, just the golden armor that is about the same height as the real person, if it is taken out, it is absolutely invaluable!
If you go to the auction, you would be embarrassed to speak up without tens of millions of dollars!