As Marin expected, when the fake "French Silver Coins" was made, it was indeed much stronger than the genuine French silver coins. After trying to cast a thousand French Transnier small silver coins, Marin compared for a long time and found that the specifications of these thousand "French Silver Coins" were very consistent, and perfect.
But in fact, real French silver coins are all knocked out by craftsmen with hammers and simple stamping dies, and the quality is far from comparable to machine coins.
The French official cannot make such high-quality silver coins. If Nimad ships smaller, for example, tens of thousands or tens of thousands of coins, it would be fine, but if it were tens of millions of dollars, it would definitely alarm the French official. After all, who has seen hundreds of thousands of silver coins exactly the same? It would be a flaw if it was so good...
Just like during the War of Resistance Against Japan, a Japanese army pretended to be the Eighth Route Army to break the Eighth Route Army Command. As a result, the Japanese in this team spoke very well in Chinese and knew dialect... But what a fuck, because everyone in this team was wearing new clothes and was well equipped, and even the horses they rode were all Eastern horses... and then it was exposed... After all, the real Eighth Route Army was very poor, and it was normal for the soldiers to patch their clothes. The whole team of people and horses were brand new, and others didn't believe it... Also, at that time, the horses riding by the Eighth Route Army were mainly local horses, and there were very few Eastern horses seized, which was also a flaw... In short, the piracy was better than the original version, and it was also a flaw...
Marin wanted to fan the craftsmen responsible for forging French silver coins. A few big-eared sacks - are you a tiger? You can't see it so well? Moreover, in this era, there are no such standard and unified silver coins. After all, they are hand-made and have a lot of errors.
Also, the density of fake silver coins is not well controlled. Because the density of nickel and copper is 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. When the two are mixed, the density is naturally 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. However, the alloys of silver and copper are different. The density of silver is 10.53 grams per cubic centimeter, which is obviously higher than copper and nickel. To create fake silver coins that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, not only must they look like the surface, but also have to be similar in size and density. After all, in this era, there is a very simple way to distinguish the authenticity of silver coins - a comparison method...
Experienced people only need to compare the two silver coins and weigh them with a simple balance. Just use a real silver coin as a reference and the other silver coin can be seen through weighing and comparing.
But it is precisely because of this simple and backward method that Marin has given space for operation - as long as the density and appearance are similar, it is difficult for people of this era to see.
In fact, Marin had made a fake currency of lead, zinc and copper before. But the problem with that kind of counterfeit currency is very big. Why? Because the density of zinc is only 7.14 grams per cubic centimeter. If you want to create realistic fake silver coins, you must add more lead to fill the density difference.
But the problem is that if the lead is added too much, the appearance of the "silver coins" will turn black over time. After it turns black, you can use this fake silver coins as a pencil to write...
The density of nickel is the same as copper. In this way, when making fake silver coins, you can add less lead. As long as there is a little less lead, the problem is still not big. As long as the lead is added, the density is similar to that of real coins. And because the density of copper and nickel is the same, you can put as much nickel as you want.
Moreover, the treatment and smelting of Cuba laterite nickel ore is very simple. Although cobalt ore is accompanied by laterite nickel ore, the nickel block obtained by the reduction reaction is fine even if it contains cobalt metal. Because the density of cobalt is also 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter...
But the mining and smelting of copper ores is much more complicated, because if the copper content of copper ores reaches 1%, it is considered a rich ore. Like the Fayilun copper ore, it can have a copper content of several percentage points, it is considered a rich ore.
In addition, more than half of the copper ore are associated ore, often accompanied by various associated ore such as gold, silver and iron. Therefore, screening of copper ore is very troublesome. The composition of laterite nickel ore is relatively simple, and the metal is mainly nickel, accompanied by a small amount of cobalt, which is easier to deal with.
In terms of mining and smelting costs, the production cost of nickel is much lower than that of copper. Therefore, Marin would rather add more nickel. However, considering that he would make stainless steel in the future, he still saved some more. However, in the first batch of fake silver coins, Marin still added a lot of nickel. The reason is that the price of copper in Europe is too expensive... using too much copper is a bit high...
But in the future, if he could obtain cheap copper from the Ming Dynasty and Japan, he would rather add more copper. After all, overall, nickel is a strategic metal resource with less copper than his copper.
That is, Marin is a time traveler, and he happened to know that Cuba has easy-to-find laterite nickel ore, which makes the acquisition cost of obtaining nickel relatively low. In addition, Marin mainly lacks currency this time, so he uses a large amount of nickel to make counterfeit coins. If he can obtain a large amount of cheap copper and silver, he is not willing to use nickel metal to make counterfeit coins.
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This time, Wiltz did a great job in Cuba. After all, he was a mining engineer and had too much experience in mining. Marin obtained 50 tons of nickel metal at once, which was equivalent to 50 million grams. If 1 gram of nickel was added to each fake silver coin weighing 1.5 grams, it would be enough to make 50 million French Transnier silver coins!
What is the concept of 50 million transnier? The exchange ratio between Transnier and Empire Finny is 2 to 1. That is to say, 50 million transnier is equivalent to 25 million exons. And 60 exons is equal to one Ducat gold coin, so 50 million transnier is equivalent to 416,700 gold coins...
Although coin minting also has costs, Marin can guarantee that the profit of using nickel metal instead of silver and using a spiral coin press will be greater than that of ordinary countries.
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The only problem now is that the fake "French silver coins" imitated by the Beihai Mint are of great quality. In order to solve this problem, Marin finally thought of a solution - the method of increasing the error...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! What is the "increasing error method"? It is to make the mold of the coin minting rough. Then, it is deliberately made a gap between the mold and the base of the spiral coin press. Once there is a gap, when the spiral coin press press press press, the mold will slide, causing a pressing error, which makes the pressed silver coins a little crooked.
Also, the mold carving should be rough as much as possible to make it look like it was made by hand. In addition, Marin also ordered hundreds of different rough steel cash molds to be carved to suppress fake French Transnier silver coins.
After many adjustments, the craftsmen, under the command of Marin, finally mastered the trick, making the mechanism coins look rougher and closer to hand-made silver coins.
I believe that after the successful creation of this batch of fake French silver coins worth 416,700 gold coins, Marin will definitely make more than half of the profit. But this is still secondary, because only with enough coins can the market become more active.
Of course, this batch of counterfeit currency was put into the French market, not in the domestic market. What Marin had to do was to compete with the French authorities for seigniorship tax and crack down on French finances.
In order to disrupt the French market, Marin had asked the Paris branch of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce to secretly contact a large number of French financial merchants. Then, through their hands, exchanged the batch of fake silver coins into gold. Then, he took them back to the German region and exchanged them for real silver coins, and brought them back to the North Sea country for circulation.
In addition, these fake French silver coins cannot be distinguished by people of this era. Therefore, Marin can use it to buy valuable goods in France.
For example, French wine has a very good market in Europe and can be bought as hard currency. Also, French war horses can be purchased with fake silver coins.
Also, the famous French Charolais...
Even in later generations, Charolais was a famous large beef cattle. The advantages of Charolais were fast growth and large size. This may not be a big deal in later generations, but it was an extremely important advantage in this era.
Why? Because in this era, cattle are not only used to eat meat, but also to plow the land. It is obvious that large cattle are stronger than small cattle and more suitable for plowing the land.
Like the British Angus cow, although it grows fast, it is not big. The adult bull weighs only 500 to 700 kilograms.
The Charolai bull can grow to 500 kilograms in 12 months. The adult Charolai bull can weigh 1100 to 1200 kilograms, almost double the Angus bull...
Of course, this is the data from later generations. In this era, the data of Charolai cattle may not be that good. But it must have great advantages as the mother of famous cattle breeds in later generations.
By the way, the data of the cattle exported by the Crimeans is not very good, not as good as the size of the Charlottes, and is similar to the data of the Angus cattle. Therefore, Marin was thinking about the Charlottes in France.
Chapter completed!