In busy cities, coin changers or apprentice locksmiths sell on clogged pavements to help their owners attract buyers, and it's like a festival.
Although all this is very good, in the midst of chaos there were many cases of fraudulent exchanges, and, of course, customers were deceived.
As a result, students have recently been banned from trading in all cities.
Fente had been cheated before, but since he found a familiar money changer, this has not happened again.
In Tauzant, the regular dealer Fante dealt with was a young apprentice, a few years younger than Fante, who worked in the Van Millio warehouse.
"Lee White, how many years, how many winters!".
The empty hall seems to be little visited, but it doesn't matter if the branch loses money, what the Van Millio vault needs is the "influence" of people, the impression that the Van Millio vault is reliable and trustworthy, because there is a Van Millio vault at home.
That is why in every town and village the Van Meeuwen vault is an invariable five-storey Gothic building, with high flying buttresses and ribbed arches, with window panes more extravagant than in the church - all this enhances the reliability and reliability of the Van Meeuwen vault.
Fante greeted one of the blondes changing coins at the counter. His client had just left, and at the moment he was withdrawing currency from the scales.
The money changer, whose name was Lee White, raised his head with a puzzled expression. As soon as he realized that it was Fente, he changed his expression to a smile and said, "Yo, Fente! It's been a long time! When did you arrive?"
The two men had been friends for a long time, and their relationship was similar to that of friends.
"I arrived yesterday, I came along the road from Portea to the Sailor Domain."
"Wow, it looks like you're the same as always...No, you seem to be in a great mood right now, don't you?".
"Something like that. And you?"
"Hey, I have hemorrhoids. And learned the mantra of the Master: "My ass hurts!".
Despite the raw expression on Lee White's face, for a man dealing with finance, hemorrhoids were proof that he knows how to control himself.
The money exchanger has to sit on a chair all day, welcoming a constant stream of customers, and he is too busy to even take a break.
Hemorrhoids can only appear in someone who works so intensively with clients.
"What can I do for you today? You're here at this time of day, so you're here to exchange money, right?".
"To be honest, I have something I want to ask you to help with...".
"Hmm, guys who have a fiancee are completely different, I get it. What's the matter?"
"Is there a recent issue of Trini silver coins in the Van Millio vault? It would be nice if there were silver coins of the last three issues."
"What, you asked for information about the regulation of the silver content, didn't you?".
As befits a coin dealer familiar with this area, he immediately caught it.
"Sort of."
"All I can say is be careful yourself, it's not so easy to get ahead of others."
The fact that Lee White warned Fente in this way meant that the currency changers, as well as the Van Millio vault, did not notice the progress of the content adjustment.
But the other side was a duchess with one hand of power, so it wasn't easy to argue that the information that Wang Millio's vault had was necessarily correct.
"I have exclusive information here, is it there or not?".
"You'll have to charge an investigation fee to see this...Alas, you're still paying so fast, there's nothing to be done, the silver coins issued when the church held the Three Kings Festival last month were the most recent. And before that there was ... this one."
Lee White stood up, took out four silver coins from a large safe behind the counter, half of which were clamped in a rack made of holes carved in wood, and handed them to Fente.
The year and month of release were written on a wooden shelf.
The four silver coins looked the same.
"I've been touching money all day.
I didn't notice any difference. They had to be made of the same model and the same material. There were no changes to the mechanics of the mint, and there was no major upheaval to justify the changes."
Lee White said, thinking that he must have been carefully comparing the weight and color of the currency for a long time.
However, Fente tried to illuminate the currency with sunlight or use various methods in an attempt to find differences in silver coins. However, there didn't seem to be any difference in the silver coins.
"It's useless! If you could find the difference by doing this, we would have found it long ago."
Lee White said with a smile, propping up the currency exchange table with his elbows, propping his cheeks with his hands. He wanted to tell Feng to try especially hard.
"Ugh... what to do about it."
Fente said with a ragged sigh as he returned the four silver coins to Lee White, who still had one hand on his cheek and the other outstretched.
The silver coins landed on Lee White's palm with a crisp, pleasant sound.
"Do you want to melt a silver coin to explore and see?".
"What stupidity, how is this possible!"
Currency remelting is not allowed in any country, no matter what.
Lee White laughed with a look that should have said, "This is stupid."
However, this left Fente at a loss as to how to judge.
He suggested that the currency must have changed a long time ago, and Lee White should have noticed it.
What was going on?
When Fante was lost in these thoughts, Gloria spoke up and said.
"Can I take a look?"
White immediately raised his head with a smile that couldn't have been brighter and said: "Of course, of course," and then handed the currency to Gloria.
While handing the currency to Gloria, White squeezed Gloria's hand tightly with both hands.
"..." In response, Gloria just quickly and carefully withdrew her hand, and then began to watch him.
"Did you find anything?" Fante asked Gloria, ignoring Lee White and opening his mouth.
Even an alchemist's apprentice wouldn't be able to measure purity just by looking at it.
"Please give me some water cups and a silver post of the same weight as the silver coins."
"Haha, that's nonsense. This is not a baby bath."
Lee White laughed awkwardly, but found coins and silver bars of the same weight, as Gloria had ordered.
Gloria dipped the coins into the water, one by one, and finally the ingots, and said nothing more, but just looked at the puddle of water that filled the table.
It is said that among coin dealers with decades of experience there are those who can smell the slightest difference in purity just by smell.
However, this is almost a myth.
If we take the example of a traveling merchant, then, as in a simple prayer, if a traveling merchant buys a product, then its price will definitely rise.
However, Fente did not lose hope that alchemists who were not traveling merchants were experts in measuring purity, that they needed to isolate compounds of various purity levels, and that Gloria turned out to be an alchemist's apprentice.
"Well ..." frowning, Gloria stared intently at the overflowing pool of water and thought for half a day before slowly saying.
"I don't know."
Gloria's simpering and serious look seemed to catch Lee White again, and he nodded lasciviously with a charmed look and said.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."
"I'll go, then we'll have a drink together next time."
"Yes, be sure to come, and don't forget to take her with you!".
Stunned by Lee White's furious aura, he promised Lee White that next time we would definitely have a drink together, and then turned to leave.
Despite the fact that Lee White turned away, he continued to wave at Gloria.
It was only after leaving the dreary Van Millio warehouse, where the sounds of the surrounding market stalls completely drowned out the two of them, that Gloria looked at Fente again.
"So, do you know if the silver content has been increased? Or has it shrunk?"
"I hardly know."
"I'm surprised you didn't say that on the spot. I was very surprised when you lied."
"At the end of the day, it was information that you bought back, and we had no reason to tell him if he didn't find out, and honestly, it was my way of repaying the favor."