Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1478 - 706: The Most Astute Hunters Often Appear as Prey!_3

Chapter 1478: Chapter 706: The Most Astute Hunters Often Appear as Prey!_3

Sean Knight lifted the rock on top and felt the copper coins around the edges, discovering some had already corroded.

Fortunately, the rust encased most of the copper coins in the middle, Although they had rusted, they clung together and were not severely corroded.

Hence, with a lift of his hand, Sean scooped up this "mountain of coins."

His Sky Eye was excellent, but it couldn’t inspect every single one of these several hundred thousand coins.

There were undoubtedly treasures among them.

Apart from carrying a large chunk of about 100 kilograms, he stored the rest in a spatial realm to pry apart leisurely when he had free time.

It was just for fun.

This trip was now complete for Sean, who slowly surfaced with the massive clump of copper coins and made his way to the side of the yacht.

A team member patrolling the deck was startled by the sighting of a large green mass, which was Sean with his find.

This team member immediately took the clump of coins while another helped pull Sean up.

After stripping off his diving suit, Sean looked at the gathered team members and said with a smile:

"What, looking for something novel?"

"Just learning from the boss!" a team member responded with a laugh.

"Let’s take a look together then." Sean took the short knife handed to him by Douglas Cooper and began to clean up the little ’mountain of coins.’

Lincoln Harrington took over the monitoring work and surveyed the surroundings.

Sean started by scraping off the thoroughly rusted copper coins on the outside with a short knife, then proceeded to clean the coins inside that were still in relatively good condition.

"...This one is a Kaiyuan Era Coin, the progenitor of the Tongbao series, quite common, so it’s not very expensive.

...Chunhua Era Coin, this is a Song Dynasty coin, also not rare; this one should be worth about ten bucks. If it’s an iron mother coin, it can fetch tens of thousands.

Dayuan Era Coin, I didn’t expect this, it’s rare, can fetch about 200,000 to 300,000... hehe, that covers the trip expense...

This is... a Tianqi Era Coin worth ten, let me check the back, it’s eleven taels, the condition is a bit poor, might fetch about 20,000..."

Sean prattled while prying.

"Most are the most common coins, like these Shunzhi Era Coins, mostly standard ones, large circulation; one might be worth about ten or twenty bucks, some fifty or sixty. Of course, there are valuable Shunzhi coins, none of which I’ve seen here."

After finishing up the chunk of the coin mountain in just over an hour, Sean roughly estimated, combining rare and common coins, that they could be exchanged for about a million.

Not bad at all.

It seems this trip really was worthwhile!

Clapping his hands, Sean stood up and said to the circling team members:

"Of course, the value holds only if we can verify that these are authentic. If they are fake, modern replicas, then they are worthless...today we’ve already found a few fake clumps, so if you are hoping to profit from this, it still depends on authenticity."

After chatting a bit more with the team members, one who was in charge of cooking shouted:

"Dinner’s ready!"

Everyone then proceeded to the dining room.

The next morning after breakfast, Big Head indeed showed up as expected.

On this side, as soon as Douglas got instructions from Sean, he immediately called over Blind Guess.

Though Blind Guess didn’t know why Douglas called him, since the financier demanded, how could he not come.

Even though they had only collected less than half the stuff on the deck, Blind Guess let the crew steer the boat closer to the yacht while apologizing to a few old fishing boats he had made arrangements with, saying he would stop by later to pick up the goods.

At that moment, Big Head was boasting about the items on his fishing boat to Sean and Douglas:

"Mr. Knight, look at these goods... These were all tidied up overnight. See how much cleaner they look?

We know Mr. Knight is a big buyer, so we definitely need to keep up with the service! We cleaned these items up so that Mr. Knight could have a good look and make an offer, right?"

Big Head seemed pleased but still carefully watched Sean and Douglas’s expressions.

About seven or eight armed team members followed Sean and Douglas.

The deck was becoming a bit crowded.

Seeing his crew being pushed to the side, Big Head felt somewhat uneasy and quietly said to Douglas:

"Mr. Cooper, do you think... maybe let a few of your men step up? Too many people here, it’s not good to look at, right?"

Just then, Blind Guess’s fishing boat came over.

Only at this moment did Big Head sense something was wrong and attempted to stay calm as he asked Sean:

"Mr. Knight, why aren’t you making an offer? Also, why call that guy over? I don’t get along with him..."

Sean’s gaze swept over the items on the deck.

A small heap of "gold" coins, a large pile of "silver" ingots, a pile of gloomy wood, several Buddha statues, a bunch of bronze ware, several large clumps of a coin mountain—indeed all items he liked to collect.

It seems Big Head really did his homework, quite considerate!

However, with the aid of Sky Eye, Sean could see none of these items were older than five years!

They are all modern "craftwork"!

"Want me to make an offer? You try to fool me with a bunch of fake goods produced in China and expect me to bid?" Sean sneered coldly, "I didn’t expose you yesterday to give you a chance. I can’t believe you’re actually pushing your luck!"

Big Head’s face changed, his gaze sweeping over the team members, who already showed a threatening demeanor closing in!

He knew if he surrendered now, he was in for a big loss!

Decisive as always, he lunged at Sean while drawing a short knife from his waist to take Sean hostage!

Big Head calculated well; as long as he captured Sean, he could safely escape!

However, dreams are lavish, reality is harsh!

In Big Head’s view, Sean would be a pampered young master, no match for him in any circumstance!

But as soon as he moved, Sean did too!

Sean’s kick, swift and powerful, landed straight on his stomach!

Like being struck by a wild ox, Big Head bent like a shrimp, spewing fresh blood!

KO!