Who says that the economy of the gold standard system cannot be played? It’s just that the economy of the credit standard system has been played to a high degree. Even if you don’t intend to ruin the land, you still can’t play with the money in your hands.
If you come here, you will be wasting your time as a member of the great time-travelling crowd and traveling through this time 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 before on earth.
That is a unified currency.
Although there are bad coins and good coins in Lost World, do those who mint bad coins deliberately mint bad coins? There is a difference between bad and counterfeit. The latter is deliberately deceiving, using low-grade, cheap and ordinary coins.
Metals are used to pretend to be precious metals, and fool's gold is used as gold. But the former is just because the casting process is not up to standard. This is purely a technical problem, not a deliberate 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 a power that is like the pillar of the world, you have not achieved unification. How can you achieve it?
To reach such a peak. In contrast, if you want to start with fighting spirit to promote the ninth power, just looking at the schools and gods involved, it will make someone want to die and stay out of sight.
Since you want to mint coins, it is very important to design an appearance that is difficult to imitate and is quite recognizable. However, this does not mean that you design the coin as a flower, which looks flashy, and then make a three-dimensional sculpture.
Good design. We also need to consider the convenience of carrying and calculating the quantity, as well as the acceptance of the world.
Considered as good coins, the characteristics of the five most well-cast imperial coins in the world's evaluation are round shape and double-sided relief. One side is the portrait of the contemporary emperor and the other side is the imperial royal emblem. 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 encountered a difficulty here. Who would accept it if he directly engraved Ko Yin's portrait? However, considering that the gods do not object to the construction of their own statues, so
This is to spread her faith. Therefore, the halfling goddess should not care about privacy or portrait rights.
As for the other side, of course, the holy emblem of the Gold Coin Goddess was directly on it. He didn’t think so. However, Lin added a laurel ring pattern on the outer circle. He also made Ke Yin’s holy emblem into a hidden pattern. When viewed from different angles, it looks like
A prayer for the Goddess of the Gold Coin. The text of the minting year is on the human head, under the icon of Koin.
The holy scriptures of the gods are not like the Catholic Bible in my hometown. They contain many myths, fables and poems. The first half of Midi's sacred scripture is more like quotations. Compared with the classics on Earth, it is like the Analects of Confucianism, but not like the Analects of Confucius.
The Analects is full of wisdom, just like a collection of advertising lines.
The second half of the holy scriptures are various precepts. Generally speaking, the precepts of good gods are self-cultivation and persuasion of good deeds; the precepts of evil gods are regular sacrifices and self-exercise. Interestingly, even the beliefs of evil gods, the holy scriptures
China will not deliberately encourage people to do evil, betrayal, rape, robbery, murder and arson. If you 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 the divine language of Koyin. The gods of Midi all have their own languages and characters. Unless they learn it specially, there are only monks, priests, bishops and other priests who can directly understand it with the blessing of the gods.
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The reason why that paragraph of text is interesting is that in addition to flaunting Ke Yin's emphasis on money, it also involves the concept of another god. However, the relationship between the two seems to be so good, let the halfling goddess eat the guardian angel.
The main tofu should be okay.
should……
As for the appearance of the coins, the diameter of the coins of Midi is mostly between 15 mm and 20 mm, but the thickness is more than 5 mm. The thickness is uneven, and even the round shape of the coins is not so standard. They are basically cast.
When looking at coins, it is already remarkable to notice that the weight of each coin is almost the same. It is 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 in thickness. The area is larger, but thinner. The weight of this new size coin is probably about the same as that of the Midi coin.
The coins in circulation are similar. This is conducive to setting the ratio of old coins to new coins so that there is not too much difference.
After the design is completed, of course, it is to be made into a physical form. This part depends on Freya's craftsmanship. Magicians are said to have good hands-on skills, but in fact they are all magic materials plus shaping techniques. They really have to hammer and chisel into ordinary
If something is carved into wood or stone, nine out of ten times it will not pass. Someone who can draw and is good at drawing with a ruler is a skill they brought before time travel.
But when it comes to hammering, 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
It's useless if you don't use it, and the more you use it, the better it becomes.
This mysterious confidence actually coincides with a scientific fact unexpectedly. In the process of forging metal utensils, beating the red-hot metal is helpful to remove impurities. Proper removal of impurities can slightly change the characteristics of the metal. Not necessarily
Whether it gets better or worse depends on whether the changed characteristics match the purpose.
When it comes to making coins, Lin is still prepared to make gold, silver, and copper mother coins 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, but
With the help of a time-traveling magician, it is not a big problem to make some finely processed tools. 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, a little troubled.
The principle of three-dimensional invisible light patterns is very simple, but how to make it makes it difficult for someone. Even though I have an amazing memory now, I can clearly dig out all the things deep in my past memory. But those who don’t know still don’t know...
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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 still a very simple description, not the real production process. It is for gold and silver.
, although the three metals of copper can be solved with acid, but which acid can target which metal, some people are confused?
There is no need to talk about aqua regia, or something like mononitrate 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 Ph.D. in physics, not chemistry, in my hometown. For chemistry,
, that is, we know the levels of the three strong acids - sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid. I really don't know anything about the commercial methods of applying chemical grades.
On Earth, if chemical etching is not used, it is laser processing.
Well, this is indeed a way. We have a lot of laser beams, and we have developed star destroyer cannons. Some people don’t believe that they can’t deal with gold, silver, and copper metal plates. It’s just how to program the laser engraving process.
It took Lin and Freya a lot of effort.
Fortunately, I have experience in making jacquard machines. Although the uses of the two are completely different, the machine logic can be used as a reference. So I asked Lin to tinker with a small laser engraving machine in a short period of time. Although the pipelines were exposed, there were many
The spare parts require 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 them 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 pushing Midi's technology tree into the semiconductor era. But this engraving, in
It is quite useful in manufacturing cars. Because as long as the intensity of the beam is increased, engraving can be directly converted into cutting. Then there are more tricks that can be played.
Ignoring Freya's plan to move the light engraving machine to the automobile manufacturing and R&D center to enlarge the machine and strengthen the beam energy, Lin still focused on the engraving of the coins. The invisible light patterns on the yin and yang sides were engraved on the surface of the light engraving machine.
With the help, we quickly found the correct design introduction plan and actually used it on the gold, silver, and copper coins that Freya had been working on 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 coin was made in imitation of the shape of Yuan Datou's hometown. However, it did not have the coinage habit of mixing other metals into the coins like the earth's.
Increase the hardness of the coins. Instead, three types of coins with a purity of 9999 were minted.
Except for copper coins, the purity is too high and the coins are thin, making gold and silver coins quite soft. Lin has 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 could
He directly broke off the gold and silver cakes. So Lin Ke was careful when holding the newly minted coins.
It's just that this mother of money, which is supposed to be the first coin in the world, didn't have a miracle like a miracle of splendor and auspiciousness. Someone who was once addicted to fairy tale novels thought so. If the novel is not a lie, this is it.
The three pieces of money have not really been completed yet. The fact is that these three pieces of money are still one step short of what I thought, and that is not what I can complete.
However, Lin held the coin so carefully and thought thoughtfully. Freya on the side thought that someone was worried about the coin being too soft and said: "Sir, the properties of metals with high purity are similar to those of ours."
It's not the same. That's why the coins are 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 look like the old ones?
The money is the same, but it’s smaller, but thicker?”
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. It was a sound she had never heard before, and she didn't know why she was attracted to it. But she just unconsciously thought
To listen more, keep your ears closer to the source of the sound, which is the direction of the coin.