Chapter 1071: Summon Michelangelo
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Marin's plan was good, but Julius II disagreed. It is not that Pope Lord is unwilling to cooperate with Marin, but that he doubts the ability of the North Sea to mint. After all, the North China Sea has no history of coinage, and experience is a big issue. The Bank of Siena had a mint, but the dozen or so families in charge were killed by Marin.
You know, the mint is a very important department. In order to better control the mint, the banker families of Siena generally choose their children to control the mint and master the core technology. But Marin wiped out all members of those dozen families, and the Siena Mint lost its core technology.
Moreover, as far as Julius II knew, there were many craftsmen in the mint. For example, the mint in Tours, France, has three or four thousand mint craftsmen. Moreover, they are all skilled craftsmen. The new craftsmen usually start. After all, this is money, not ordinary things.
In this era, European countries' coins were all forged by hand. The mint first allows ordinary craftsmen to stamp and cut round gold or silver pieces of uniform size. Then, let an experienced mint craftsman use a hammer and a stamping die to beat the person's head and letters on the gold or silver pieces. Not only is this time-consuming, but each coin forged is different.
Among them, the best forging is gold coins. Because there is an unspoken rule in Europe that gold coins are not adulterated. Therefore, most gold coins in Europe are made of high-purity gold. High-purity gold is very soft, and it is easy to shape the avatar and letters when forging with a hammer and a mold, which is more convenient. Moreover, the reason why gold coins are only about 3.56 grams in size is because they cannot be made too large. If it is bigger, it is already soft gold, and the coins made are easy to lose shape. Similarly, silver coins. However, because various countries dope copper in silver coins, which make the silver coins harder, I do n’t worry that if they are too large, they will be deformed. But the ensuing difficulty was that after doping with copper, the silver coins became hard and it became difficult to forge heads and letters. Therefore, forging silver coins is much more difficult than forging gold coins.
Julius II was actually very interested in Malin's desire to cast a batch of gold coins with his head printed for the Holy See. After all, his life is limited, but gold can survive for thousands of years. As long as the gold coin with his head printed on it, his reputation will be passed on to future generations, and it will last forever. However, the Papal State has never had a strong mint, nor does he have such an idea.
As for Marin's desire to mint gold coins for him, Julius II was somewhat distrustful of Marin's coinage technology ...
Seeing that the pope ’s father-in-law did not believe in his own strength, Marin said pretendingly:
"To this day, I have to show you the minting technology of our Beihai country ..."
Then he turned his head and walked (although he could not sit down with a knife in his buttocks, there was nothing wrong with walking), came to the barracks of his army and shouted:
"Who brought the newly minted copper coins from Beihai?"
"Who brought the newly minted copper coins from Beihai?"
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The soldiers of the Beihai National Mountain Infantry Regiment who came with him were a little dumbfounded-what is the boss doing? Is it short of money? It shouldn't be ...
Where do they know that Marin just wants his father-in-law to see the strength of the North Sea coinage. As it happened, a batch of brass coins were trial-produced by the Beihai Kingdom some time ago, and pressed with a spiral mint machine. The pattern is clear and exquisite. Technical strength.
But the problem is that Marin is the ruler of the North Sea Kingdom. He usually doesn't carry silver coins in his hand. At least gold coins, how can there be copper coins? Therefore, he can only turn to his big soldiers ...
After shouting for a while, some soldiers finally reacted-they can lend money to the boss, and let the boss owe humanity, absolutely cost-effective!
As a result, a group of soldiers took out the newly collected brass coins with the nine-cross golden eagle pattern issued by Beihai State and scrambled to hand them to Marin.
Malin couldn't help crying, he didn't really lack money to borrow money, he could only get a sample. Of course, he will not let his men suffer. He picked up a dozen new brass coins from the North Sea country, but gave them back to the soldiers who gave them a number of gold coins. Then he took the dozen brass coins and returned to the backyard of the Basilica of Lateran where Julius II was.
"You see, this is a newly minted copper coin from my mint. Look at the quality. Isn't it good?"
"Gold coins?" Julius II had never seen zinc brass. Its color is very similar to gold. Moreover, as soon as the new casting came out, it was also Huang Cancan, which made Julius II mistaken for gold coins.
But after careful observation, Julius II realized that this is the copper coin ...
After observing these copper coins, Julius II was shocked:
"Why is this pattern so exquisite, the traces are deep ..."
His surprise is normal, because in this era of hand-made coins, copper coins are difficult to create. Because the patterns and texts on the copper coins were hammered out by mint craftsmen in steps. The problem is that copper is very hard, and it will only become soft when it reaches a certain high temperature after being returned to the furnace. When the softened hot copper sheet is taken out, the mint craftsmen will take advantage of the heat while still soft, and step up to build.
The problem is that the speed of hand-building is very slow, so slow that it can't keep up with the cooling speed of the copper sheet. When the copper sheet cools down, it is no longer soft. It is more difficult for mint craftsmen to hammer out precise patterns and text on copper pieces. Therefore, the casting of copper coins is often rough and the traces are not deep. Because copper is very hard after cooling down, it is difficult to beat deep marks.
But Marin's Beihai Mint uses a spiral mint to suppress coins, which is very short. Just turn the arm a few times and press the steel mold hard against the copper sheet, which will soon be cast. The hot and soft hot copper sheet is too hard to cool and harden. Moreover, the pressure of the spiral mint is very high, which is much deeper than the mint hammering with an artificial hammer.
Therefore, the North Sea brass coin that Marin showed to Julius II not only had exquisite and precise patterns, but also had deep traces. Ordinary craftsmen cannot beat such exquisite coins at all.
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"Do you think the quality is okay? This is a copper coin. If it is a gold coin, it is easier to manufacture."
Julius II finished reading a dozen copper coins and nodded, but asked again:
"It's difficult to make such a beautiful coin? How fast is it? Can it keep up with production needs?"
Julius II did not know that the North Sea country used machines to make coins, but he thought that Marin had a skilled top mint craftsman.
Marin smiled and explained the use of the spiral mint in the North Sea country to Julius II. Julius II suddenly shined his eyes and wanted to introduce a spiral mint for the Pope.
Marin quickly stopped him, joking, the Papal State is not hereditary territory, why introduce such a good technology for the Papal State? Moreover, if the Papal State wants to mint coins, it can be contracted to the Siena Bank controlled by Marin. If the technology of the spiral mint is mastered by the Pope, Marin can be sure that the greedy cardinals must be crazy to make bad coins and disrupt the market.
Under Marin's persuasion, he felt that Julius II, who had not survived for a few years, finally gave up the idea of introducing a spiral mint. However, for the casting of gold coins with his head printed, still attaches great importance ...
"Well ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ I sent someone to call the young and promising sculptor Michelangelo, let him help me design a money model, and then give it to your person to cast gold coins. As for gold, you Use the existing ones first. For example, the gold ingots and Florin gold coins, Ducat gold coins, etc. you have seized ... "
"What's the name of the new gold coin? Ducat or Florin?" Marin asked.
"Just call Pope Ducat ..." Julius II thought for a while. Earlier, the Pope ordered gold coins to be minted, but they were generally called Florin. Julius II planned to make a difference, so he planned to change his name to "Pope Ducat". In addition to being different from history, it also means to be in line with the Ducat gold coins issued in Venice.
"By the way, where did Michelangelo's young sculptor go ... well, it seems that he was sent to the Sistine Chapel to carve the zenith fresco" Genesis ", and I have to send someone to call him over ..."
"Whoever, you go to the Sistine Chapel and call me Xiaomi (Michelangelo)!" Julius II cried with majesty. That posture seems not to invite a great artist, but to summon a watchdog at random, leaving Marin a little ...
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