My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 273 Ancient Egyptian Gold Artifacts

Most people in the live broadcast room are indeed envious.

Take the first two days as an example, ten people made a fortune because of Fang Xing!

But now, although Xu Qing's relationship with Fang Xing and the others is unusual, it's too easy to get tens of millions of dollars in soy sauce.

The other female anchors on the platform were in tears after watching it.

Don't look at what the first sister earns a lot of money, but how can Xu Qing be so relaxed?They sang and danced, and had a good time chatting with their big brothers.In the final analysis, it still depends on the faces of the big brothers to eat.

"These gold coins should have artistic value and cannot be measured simply by the price of gold!" Liu Shijun picked up one and found that one side of the gold coin is a human head pattern, and the other side is a letter symbol.

In this way, these gold coins have the value of collection.

The collection of gold coins has always been a small hot spot.

There are many ways to determine the value of a gold coin; such as its rarity, the year of manufacture, the conditions of manufacture, the number of uniform patterns produced, and even the bacteria on an ancient gold coin.

It is not only a collection of gold coins issued in limited quantities in the same era, but also a collection of official circulation gold coins issued by ancient people. Often collectors value those gold coins of great historical significance, because such gold coins are of great importance to archaeologists. For them, it is worth having.

Of course, the gold coins in front of him should have been minted by the pirates themselves.

The casting technology is a bit rough and the artistry is not very high.

But it cannot be denied that it does have a certain collection value.

"Turn around, ask someone to find out what kind of pirate these gold coins belong to. Since they can mint gold coins, it means that the other party is not an ordinary pirate, and they probably have a bit of a reputation." Fang Xing told them.

After speaking, he picked up a piece of gold.

"This should be jewelry worn around the neck, right? Why doesn't it look like a pirate's thing?" Liu Shijun looked at it again and again.

Fang Xing handed it to Liu Shijun, and said, "It's not worn around the neck, but a headdress worn on the forehead. From the style point of view, it looks like something from ancient Egypt. Look at the decorations on it.

Things that pirates robbed must not have been pirates in the first place! "

From the relics of ancient Egyptian civilization, jewelry was widely used among ancient Egyptians.All walks of life in society, from pharaohs to civilians, the living and the dead, everyone wears jewelry, even mythical animals are no exception.

The Egyptians love gold, or the degree of love can no longer be expressed by just love, but a kind of worship and admiration.

Their gold craftsmanship is very developed, and the ancient Egyptians have mastered modern techniques such as casting, hammering, carving, coloring, inlaying, and forging gold foil.

Fang Xing picked up another one, and there was an excellent lapis lazuli on it.

This made Fang Xing even more certain that the gold artifacts in front of him were probably treasures from ancient Egypt that pirates plundered.

Ancient Egyptian jewelry mainly includes necklaces, earrings, tiaras, bracelets, bracelets, finger rings, belts, amulets and balance pendants for necklaces, etc., which are exquisitely crafted, complicatedly decorated, and carry specific meanings.

"Lapis lazuli? Good stuff!" Liu Shijun was overjoyed.

Good lapis lazuli is dark blue and pure in color, without cracks, fine in texture, and free of calcite impurities.No gold stars or very beautiful gold stars are top grade.

The lapis lazuli produced in Afghanistan has a uniform dark blue to sky blue color, and the very fine-grained cryptocrystalline structure contains a small amount of pyrite, which makes it shine brightly under sunlight.

This kind of gem is called "treasure" by Arab countries.

Fang Xing knew that lapis lazuli was often an important item in the list of tributes sent to Egypt, and it was also one of the important gifts given to the King of Egypt by the King of Babylon.

"Is it very expensive?" Xu Qing asked.

Girls, looking at this kind of gemstone, their eyes are starry.Few women can refuse the temptation of gems.

"This rhombus-shaped lapis lazuli is of the highest quality. It costs tens of thousands of yuan per gram!" Liu Shijun told her.

At present, the price of lapis lazuli in the market varies greatly, ranging from 61 grams to several thousand one gram, or even tens of thousands of yuan per gram.There are many factors that determine the price of lapis lazuli. According to the current market conditions, it is generally cheaper.

The audience in the live broadcast room fell silent.

Another treasure worth tens of thousands of dollars per gram, the lapis lazuli of that headgear weighs dozens of grams, no matter how you look at it?
"Gemstones are beautiful, but I don't like this style of headwear very much." Xu Qing said.

Fang Xing picked up another very wide bracelet, made of gold and inlaid with turquoise.Such a wide bracelet does not conform to the aesthetics in the eyes of Chinese people.

In ancient Egypt, finely crafted gold and silver were usually paired with precious stones, semi-precious stones or enamel to present gorgeous and changeable shapes.

Xu Qing picked up a pendant she liked more.

"What kind of gem is this?"

Fang Xing took a look and said, "Red tourmaline is a very expensive gemstone."

Red is the most valuable among tourmalines, among which fuchsia and rose red are the best. They are called red tourmalines, and they are called "baby's face" in China.

It is easily confused with ruby, red spinel, reddish topaz, etc.

Tourmaline has obvious double image phenomenon at the edges and corners, strong dichroism, low density and easy to distinguish.Tourmalines float up in diiodomethane, while rubies, spinels, and topaz sink.

In fact, the easiest way to identify is to observe gemstones under the irradiation of ultraviolet lamps used for currency inspection. Rubies are fluorescent, and red tourmalines are non-fluorescent.

At present, the price of a 10-carat tourmaline gemstone ranges from 5 to 15 yuan according to its color, which is basically equivalent to a one-carat diamond of the same grade.Good-quality red tourmaline requires bright colors, pure tones, even distribution, and bright luster.Color shades vary widely in value.

Chinese people have a long tradition of loving tourmaline.

The Empress Dowager Cixi loved tourmalines very much, especially the bright red and slightly powdered varieties, called pink tourmalines, and regarded them as the top grade of tourmalines.

Among her funeral objects, there is a pink lotus flower carved from tourmaline, weighing 36 taels of 8 coins, which is more than one kilogram, and was worth 75 taels of silver at the time.

"This should be an amulet, look at the decorative symbols around it." Fang Xing added after thinking about it.

Liu Shijun saw that Xu Qing liked the pendant, and said with a smile, "Take it if you like it."

It's just a few hundred thousand or so.

With such a big harvest today, he is naturally generous.

Not only that, he also secretly discussed with Fang Xing, and when the salvage was over, he would distribute a gold coin to each salvage employee as a commemoration, or a reward.

The salvage work went smoothly. In less than half a day, all the treasures were completely loaded onto the salvage ship.

Just gold, more than four tons.Even though Cui Mingzhu and the others were not short of money, they were all in a daze when they saw so much gold.

(End of this chapter)