Chapter 1,245 New Coins

Who said that the economy of the gold standard system cannot be played? It is just that the economy of the credit standard system has been played. Even if he didn't intend to spoil the land, he still had the money in his hand and couldn't use it to make a fortune. As a member of the great time traveling crowd, he was wasting his time traveling in vain.

If the power of minting, whose importance has not yet been recognized by the world and is regarded as a snake and scorpion, can really be taken into hands... well, it should be said that it is monopolized by the goddess of gold coins, then there will be no need to worry about making a great initiative that has never been done on earth. That is a unified currency.

Although there are bad coins and good coins in Lost Land, do those who mint bad coins deliberately mint bad coins? There is a difference between inferior and fake. The latter is deliberately deceiving, using low-grade, cheap ordinary metals to pass off as precious metals, and using fool's gold as gold. But the former is just because the casting process is not up to par. This is purely a technical issue, not a deliberate act of fraud.

It was precisely because it was discovered that it was possible to monopolize coins that someone decided to use money to promote the ninth power. If you want to establish the power that is like the pillar of the world, how can you reach such a high level without achieving great unification? In contrast, if you want to promote the ninth power from fighting spirit, just looking at the schools and gods involved, it will make someone want to die and just turn a blind eye.

Since coins are to be minted, it is very important to design an appearance that is difficult to imitate and is quite recognizable. However, this does not mean that designing a coin as a flower, which looks flashy, and then making a three-dimensional sculpture is a good design. We also need to consider the convenience of carrying and calculating the quantity, as well as the acceptance of the world.

Regarded as good coins, the characteristics of the five most well-cast imperial coins in the world's evaluation are round shape, double-sided relief, a portrait of the contemporary emperor on one side, and the imperial royal emblem on the other side. Generally, coins only have one side engraved, either the emblem of the founding organization, or the portrait of the head of the family or the king.

Lin had no intention of modifying the general direction of such a classic design, but he just encountered a difficulty here. Who would accept the direct engraving of Ke Yin's portrait? However, considering that the gods do not object to building their own statues to spread their beliefs. So the halfling goddess shouldn't care about privacy or portrait rights.

As for the other side, of course, he would go directly to the Holy Emblem of the Gold Coin Goddess without thinking about it. However, Lin added a laurel ring pattern to the outer circle. And Ko Yin's holy symbol was made into a hidden pattern, which when viewed from different angles, turned out to be a prayer on the Gold Coin Goddess' Codex. The text of the year of casting is on the human head and below the statue of Koyin.

The holy scriptures of the gods are not like the Catholic Bible back home, which contains many myths, fables and poems. The first half of Midi's holy book is more like quotations. Compared with the earth's classics, it is like the Confucian Analects, but it is not as full of wisdom as the Analects. It is just a collection of advertising lines.

The second half of the holy book consists of various precepts. Generally speaking, the precepts of good gods are self-cultivation and advocating good deeds; the precepts of evil gods are regular sacrifices and self-exercise. Interestingly, even if it is the belief in evil gods, the holy scriptures do not deliberately encourage people to commit evil, betrayal, rape, robbery, murder and arson. If you just want to live according to the evil god's commandments, doing those bad things is a shortcut.

As for the prayer chosen by Lin, he came across a very interesting passage when he was studying Koyin's Holy Scriptures.

'I swear to protect the safety of people's property'

The text is written in Koyin's divine language. The gods of Midland all have their own languages ​​and writings. Unless you study them specially, you can only 'understand' them directly with the blessing of the gods, such as monks, priests, bishops and other clergy.

The reason why that passage is interesting is that in addition to flaunting Coin's emphasis on money, it also involves the concept of another god. But the relationship between the two seems to be so good, so it shouldn't matter if the halfling goddess eats the Lord of Guardians' tofu.

should……

As for the appearance of the coins. The diameter of the coins of the Lost World is mostly between 15 and 20 millimeters, but the thickness is more than 5 millimeters. The thickness is uneven, and even the round shape of the coins is not so standard. Basically, when minting coins, it is remarkable to notice that each coin weighs almost the same. It is really difficult to worry about consistency and standard in appearance.

Lin did not intend to maintain the original common size of the coin, but changed it to a new size of thirty-nine millimeters in diameter and three millimeters thick, which is larger in area but thinner. The weight of this new size coin will be approximately similar to the coins in circulation in Midland. This helps to determine the ratio of old currency to new currency so that there is not too much difference.

After the design is completed, of course it is created into a physical form. This part depends on Freya's skills. The magician claims to have good hands-on skills, but in fact they are all magic materials plus shaping techniques. If they were to hammer and chisel something into ordinary wood or stone, nine out of ten would fail. If someone can draw and is good at drawing with a ruler, those are skills brought before time travel.

But when it comes to knocking, the dwarves are still better than others. Although the wealthy Silverbeard dwarves also mainly use magic materials, they do not trust the magician's shaping skills. Instead, they believe that all iron is useless if it is not broken, and the more it is broken, the better it becomes.

This mysterious confidence actually coincides with a scientific fact unexpectedly. In the process of forging metal objects, beating the red-hot metal is helpful to remove impurities. Proper removal of impurities can slightly change the properties of a metal. It doesn't necessarily mean it has gotten better or worse, it just depends on whether the changed characteristics and uses match.

When it comes to making coins, Lin is still prepared to make mother coins made of gold, silver, and copper in one go. This is a delicate job. Although the dexterity of the fingers of the dwarves is not as good as that of the dwarfs or halflings, it is not a big problem to make some finely processed tools with the help of a time-traveling magician. And using tools is what the silver-bearded dwarves are best at.

On the contrary, the production of hidden patterns made the two men, one tall and one short, troubled.

The principle of three-dimensional invisible light patterns is very simple, but how to make it makes someone difficult. Even now, my memory is amazing, and I can clearly dig out all the things deep in my past memory. But those who don’t know still don’t know…

Regarding the production process of three-dimensional invisible light patterns, I only vaguely remember that acid is used for chemical etching, but the information I have read is for stainless steel plates, and it is a very simple description, not the real production process. Although the three metals of gold, silver, and copper can be solved with acid, but which acid can target which metal, some people are confused?

There’s no need to talk about aqua regia or anything like one nitrate and three salts. As soon as you pour it on, it will all melt and light up. It is some kind of chemical etching. What's more, I have a PhD in physics, not chemistry, in my hometown. For chemistry, we also know the degrees of the three strong acids - sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid. I really don’t know anything about applying chemical-level business methods.

On Earth, if chemical etching is not used, it is laser processing.

Well, this is indeed a way. I have a lot of laser beams, and I have developed a Star Destroyer Cannon. I don't believe that I can't deal with gold, silver, and copper metal plates. However, it took Lin and Freya a lot of effort to program the light engraving process.

Fortunately, I have experience in making jacquard machines. Although the two have completely different uses, the machine logic can be used as a reference. Therefore, Lin was asked to tinker with a small laser engraving machine in a short period of time. Although the pipelines were exposed, many spare parts required additional drilling and locking screws to fix them to the machine. But at least you don’t have to spend a lot of time researching it from scratch.

However, this research aroused Freya's interest.

The small light engraving machine that was just built can only engrave some patterns on metal plates at most. It has not yet reached the level of manufacturing wafers and advancing Midi's technology tree into the semiconductor era in one fell swoop. But even this engraving is still quite useful in manufacturing cars. Because as long as the intensity of the beam is increased, engraving can directly turn into cutting. Then there are more tricks that can be played.

Ignoring Freya's plan to move the laser engraving machine to the automobile manufacturing and R&D center to enlarge the machine and intensify the energy of the beam, Lin still focused on engraving the coins. With the help of the laser engraving machine, the invisible light pattern engraving on the yin and yang sides was quickly found and used on the gold, silver, and copper coins that Freya had already prepared for two or three days.

After making it, Lin weighed the coin with his index thumb and looked at it carefully. To put it bluntly, this money is made in imitation of the shape of Yuan Datou from his hometown. However, there is no coinage habit like the earth, where other metals are mixed into the coins to increase the hardness of the coins. but cast purity

Except for copper coins, the purity is too high and the coins are thin, making gold and silver coins quite soft. Lin Ke tried it. He used gold cakes and silver cakes of the same size before carving the patterns. He repeatedly folded them and broke them with both hands, but he was able to break the gold cakes and silver cakes directly. So Lin was cautious when holding the newly minted coins.

It's just that this money mother is supposed to be the first coin in the world, but why doesn't a miracle like the heaven show splendor and auspicious blessing happen? Someone who was once poisoned by Xian Xia thought so. If it's not a lie, then these three pieces of money haven't really been completed yet. The fact is that these three coins are still one step short of what I thought, and that is not something I can complete.

However, Lin held the coins so carefully and thought thoughtfully. Freya on the side thought that someone was worried about the problem of the coin being too soft, and said: "Sir, the properties of metals with high purity are different from those we usually come into contact with. This is the reason why the coin is too soft and difficult to use." And you also made the coins so thin, I'm afraid that when you put the money in the bag, it will be twisted when you take it out. Why don't you make it smaller but thicker like the old money?"

Lin didn't answer. He picked up the silver coin, put it to his mouth, blew hard towards the round edge, and then put it next to Freya's ear.

There was only a strange buzzing sound coming from the money, which made Freya crazy. This was a sound she had never heard before, and she didn't know why she was attracted to it. But just because I unconsciously wanted to hear more, my ears moved closer to the source of the sound, which was the direction of the coins.

Lin smiled and said: "That's the reason."