Chapter 441 Gold Coins
The cave above my head is not straight up and down, so even if Yang Jing uses a static rope, he can easily climb up.
After waiting below for more than ten minutes, Chris lit a burning rod and threw it hard. After seeing that the burning rod continued to burn, Yang Jing climbed up with the princess on his back. Of course, to be on the safe side, both of them were wearing gas masks.
The princess couldn't climb up, but Yang Jing's physique and strength were fine. It was easy for him to carry the princess on his back, so Yang Jing became the second senior brother again.
This is also a natural cave, more than three meters high and about seven or eight meters in radius. Several cracks extend upward from the top of the cave. I don’t know where to extend, but water is constantly dripping from the cracks, and when approaching these cracks, you can vaguely feel the existence of wind.
Obviously, these cracks should lead to the outside. Because it is limestone, the melted snow water flows in through the cracks. After countless tens of thousands of years, the cave and the cave below finally formed.
But it is really hard for Yang Jing to understand how the "Sea Snake" Bodeman was found in such a remote cave.
Anyway, Yang Jing asked himself that if he had changed himself, he would probably not be able to find such a place.
Nothing is important. What is important is that there are shining golden things scattered everywhere in this cave. Gold coins and gold-made utensils almost fill the ground of the cave. Among them, you can see a lot of decaying wood.
It is obvious that these golds were originally supposed to be packed in wooden boxes or barrels. As a result, after so many years, the packaging outside had already decayed, and these golds were naturally scattered.
The princess who took off the gas mask and her eyes lit up, "Wow, Yang Jing, are we getting rich? So much gold..."
Although Princess has been living a life of luxury since she was a child, she has never seen such a scene, which is still full of shock to her.
Yang Jing nodded with a smile and said, "I'm really rich. My wife, please pick up whatever you like. These are all ours!"
Princess screamed excitedly, and walked over on tiptoe. The girl was worried that she would break the gold coins on the ground.
Chris and the others then climbed up and saw the land of gold, they screamed in surprise.
It is really hard to calm down in the face of such a shocking treasure. Even though there is not much gold here, this is a legendary pirate treasure after all, and it was found by these people in person. Of course they are excited. They also have the right to be excited!
A group of people laughed and danced on the top, but Dabai below didn't know what happened. He only knew why the guy who was the best to him disappeared?
So, waves of roars sounded below. Yang Jing had no choice but to soothe Dabai again, so that he could lie down and guard it obediently.
When Yang Jing came up again, these people had already started to clean up the scattered gold.
The princess's face was flushed with excitement, and she held Yang Jing's arm and asked, "Yang Jing, I don't think you are very excited? Didn't you take these treasures seriously?"
Yang Jing smiled and said, "It's not that I don't care about it, but that I'm almost immune to gold now. When I went to the Caribbean to play last year, I found a sunken yacht and found a total of forty tons of gold on it. The gold is much more than the gold in front of me."
These golds look quite a lot, but Yang Jing, you guessed that at most, there are only two or three tons. Gold coins and gold utensils are different from gold bars. Under the same volume, the weight of gold bars is far greater than that of gold coins and gold products, so these golds look a lot, but the actual weight is not too heavy.
How could Yang Jing, who has experienced the baptism of Mu Tianbo’s treasure and Gaddafi’s treasure, respect these golds?
"Is it the gold you entrusted Mr. Zhao to sell?" Yang Jing mentioned this to Princess, so Princess knew about it.
"Yeah." Yang Jing nodded, and was about to continue explaining, but suddenly his eyes moved and he quickly said, "Linzi, take the gold coins in your hand and I'll take a look."
Lin Dan was stunned, holding more than 20 gold coins in both hands and raised them, and Yang Jing nodded.
Among the more than 20 gold coins that Lin Dan brought, most of them were gold coins minted by Spain in the 16th and 17th century, as well as several French gold coins of the same period, Louis, British gold coins, Guinea, and Dutch lion gold coins. These gold coins from different countries actually appeared together, which is enough to prove that this treasure should be that after Bashalomeu robbed the port of Terrebassi, he handed all the gold robbed to Bodeman and sent it here to hide.
Although the port of Traebacea was controlled by the Spanish, there were many British, French, Dutch and even Germans in that port. Bashalomeu was bold and brave enough to take over the entire port of Traebacea, and no one of the merchants from various countries could escape. Naturally, the gold coins they carried were all in the hands of Bashalomeu.
However, this is not the main reason for attracting Yang Jing. What attracted Yang Jing was that among this handful of gold coins, there were gold coins with a circle larger than other gold coins.
The diameter of other gold coins is about twenty-five millimeters, but the diameter of this gold coins is about forty millimeters. Such a large gold coins are placed together with other gold coins, just like a one-yuan coin and a pile of five cent coins in the national currency, which is particularly conspicuous.
Yang Jing gently pinched the gold coin, and just took a look, he immediately identified the identity of the gold coin.
This gold coin with shield-shaped patterns on both sides is actually a rare Spanish horoscope-shaped gold coin.
Escudo means "shield" in Spanish, which is a currency unit. When Spain was spreading all over the world, this currency was not only used in Spain, but also in Spanish colonies.
At that time, in addition to Escudo, Spain's gold coins also had Dobron gold coins, which was the highest face value among Spanish gold coins. Dobron gold coins could be exchanged for Escudo gold coins; there was also a gold coins called Pistoll, which had a face value equivalent to two Escudo.
However, at the end of the 16th century, the Spanish royal family issued a gold coin similar to a commemorative coin called the Royal Escudo gold coin. This gold coin is very large and larger than the gold coins circulating on the market, so it has a very valuable gold content.
There are not many such gold coins issued, so very few are circulating on the market. In modern times, in addition to the only 20 royal Escudo gold coins preserved in major museums around the world, there are only nine such gold coins that were salvaged from a Spanish sailboat that sank in 1715 in July 2015.
In other words, there are only 29 gold coins in the world that are produced in the Spanish Royal Escudo, which were produced in the late 16th century.
In the World Coin Collection Auction held in New York at the beginning of this year, a gold coin such as this was sold at a sky-high price of US$456,000.
In other words, the value of such a 8-shaped Escudo gold coin can be as high as the value of other gold coins in this handful of gold coins.
Among Lin Dan's handful of gold coins, except for this 8-shaped Escudo, the remaining gold coins are worth between $10,000 and $20,000.
In other words, if Lin Dan’s hand in hand is sold, it will be worth about 800,000 to 900,000 US dollars!
And how many gold coins are there here? How many royal Escudo gold coins are there?
Don't have many. Just find ten royal Escudo gold coins from these gold coins, and then all the fees for this trip will be back!
Not to mention among these gold coins, in addition to the royal Escudo gold coins, there are many other gold coins with high collection value.
It was as if Yang Jing was looking for it himself. After just scattering for a while, he picked out two Dutch Dukat gold coins minted in 1652 from these scattered gold coins.
Ducat gold coins were the first circulating currency minted by Italian Venetian merchants. Because the gold content was as high as 99.7%, this gold coins were very popular among European merchants at that time when they were launched in the 13th century. Some European countries also minted Ducat gold coins as their own currency, such as Switzerland and 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 Escudo in the shape of Escudo.
The two Ducat gold coins minted by the Dutch discovered by Yang Jing are also extremely rare gold coins. The value of this Ducat gold coins may not be as valuable as that of the Swiss Ducat gold coins, but if you take it, its value will definitely not be worse than the Spanish Royal Escudo gold coins I just discovered!
In addition, Yang Jing also discovered a gold coin called Carolin that was circulated in the German region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The collection value of this kind of gold coins is not low, and the value of one is about 160,000 euros!
There are at least two thousand gold coins scattered all over the land. Even if one-tenth of the precious gold coins are found, the value of these gold coins alone will exceed 100 million US dollars!
Don’t forget that there are not only these gold coins here, but also more utensils made of gold. These gold utensils that are obviously plundered from Latin America have obvious Central and South American styles.
All kinds of gold utensils, gold jewelry, and even gold weapons and golden armor are available here!
Not to mention anything else, just the golden armor that is about the same height as a real person, it will definitely be priceless if it is taken out!
Chapter completed!