Chapter 553: Fraud 100 Years Ago
Zhang Nan took the small, almost white coin, looked at it, and said, "You're really lucky, this is a 5-cent nickel coin that is relatively rare today." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's been almost a century, and it's rare to find such a good condition in the ground. ”
In your free time, it's still good to read more books on American culture, at least not blind—there's no shortage of money, and it's okay to have a little fun.
The nickel was slightly cleaned with the mineral water that Randy had handed over, and the entire nickel was as good as new, except for the faint mud erosion marks on the surface.
What is commendable is that this 5 cents was probably lost by the owner shortly after circulation, and there are almost no traces of use in the Miaomiao, and the wear is almost invisible, and if you take it to the rating, you should be able to get a good score.
Although it is good that coins can have original light, but if the old coins from nearly a century ago, if they are heirlooms, this original light is too little, and it is common that daily wear and tear will make the coin in a mess.
"How much is this worth?"
Xiao Nizi had a curious expression on her face, because Zhang Nan used the word "rare", thinking that it should be worth much more than the 1 cent of wheat just now.
"Ordinary condition can exceed a hundred dollars, this one is in good condition, two or three hundred dollars should be fine. ”
"Yay!"
Charlize Theron clenched his fists and raised his fists, and the whole person jumped!
Zhang Nan smiled at the little girl's excited expression, and waited until she was crazy before she said: "This is still the most common variety in the V cent, and the output in 1898 was relatively large."
If it was the original 1883 first version of the V, it would cost thousands of dollars. ”
"Small circulation?"
Little Charlie is very studious.
Zhang Nan pointed to the back of the coin and said, "The words CENTS here were added later, and the first batch of V coins produced in 1883 did not have these words." ”
What's the difference between adding and not adding?
At this time, Lin Man interjected: "I really want to remember that there is a legend that because of the deaf and dumb man's deception, the back of the V coins produced later was marked with a logo. ”
Even Americans themselves, as long as they are not playing coins, will not know the story that happened in them, let alone the story of 100 years ago.
Zhang Nan nodded at Lin Man and said, "In our Huaxia, a kind of green dime banknote with a green back is still in use because it is very similar in color to the 2 jiao banknote, which is easy to be confused in the transaction process, and it is recycled after only 14 months of use, and the value is very high." Later, the color of the back of the banknote was deliberately changed and reprinted again.
Coins that tend to be confused are generally recycled, but the original version of the 5-cent V-shaped was later modified because the diameter and design were too close to the $5 gold coin......"
In 1881, Snowden, the director of the U.S. Mint, ordered Charles Barber, the mint's chief engraver, to design a unified nickel coin, including the 2-cent, 3-cent coins, and the newly proposed copper-nickel cent.
Snowden asked Barber to adopt a classical-style head of Lady Liberty on the obverse and Roman numerals representing the denomination on the verso, surrounded by wheat, cotton, and corn.
Only the 5-cent coin was finally approved for production, and production began in 1883: obverse: the classical statue of the Lady of Liberty with 13 stars and year markings around it, and on the reverse is a "V" surrounded by a wreath, surrounded by the inscriptions UNITEDSTATES of america and EPLURIBUSUNUM.
The weight is kept at 5 grams and the diameter is 22 mm.
“...... But the trouble came and the fraudsters soon discovered that the diameter of the new nickelodeon was very close to that of a gold coin with a $5 denomination, and the obverse was still very similar. Simply gilding a new nickel coin can lead to the mistaken impression that it is a $5 gold coin.
The scammers acted quickly and added zigzag lace to some of the gold-plated nickel coins to make them look more like gold coins, and as a result, many people were scammed.
Lin Man was right just now, the most classic story of this scam is a man named Tatum who used this coin to defraud many times.
Thanks to the well-established laws of the United States of America, his fraud is not illegal!"
Charlize Theron looked incredulous and said, "Impossible! If nickel coins are used as gold coins in the United States, deaf and dumb people will be punished by the same law as normal and healthy people." ”
The little girl is very righteous, but also very innocent.
"It depends on how you use it.
Charlie, the law is a net, and a reckless collision is guaranteed to be trapped, and if you take a detour, or if you work around, you will be safe and sound. ”
Charlize Theron was thoughtful after hearing this, and the people on the side also smiled and watched the boss educate the little girl, but they didn't realize that this was teaching bad children.
That Tatum's deception method is actually very simple, but it is beyond the scope of legal sanctions.
He entered the store and selected an item that cost no more than 5 cents, paid the clerk a processed nickel, and waited honestly to find the money.
Many clerks were fooled and asked him for 4 dollars and 95 cents, and the store could not recover from Tatum through the law afterwards, and the cost of finding gangsters to help was too great, if he came to the door and talked with his fists, the police would help that Tatum.
Because Tatum is deaf and mute, he did pay the full amount of the items he bought, and the money that the clerk asked him for was a gift in the legal sense. ”
Charlize Theron was speechless, he knew that the Western-style law seemed to stipulate that 5 cents gilded or 5 cents was not a counterfeit money fraud!
You can't say that he deliberately processed the coin and then cheated it, even if that Tatum could sign language and write, and he told the police that the money was picked up on the road, you can't do anything about it!
Article 270 of the Criminal Law (revised in 1997) ten years later stipulates that anyone who illegally takes possession of other people's property in custody and refuses to return it is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, short-term detention or a fine;
where the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, a sentence of between two and five years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given.
Those who illegally take possession of another's forgotten or buried property as their own, and the amount is relatively large, and they refuse to hand it over, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph -- this crime shall be dealt with only if the complaint is made.
But the United States a hundred years ago, hehe... Of course, the ownerless property you see is your own, and if others don't sue you, it's your own.
This is the law of the Americans at the beginning, you can only admit that you are unlucky, and you can't complain about others!