The Blacklist

Chapter 363 The Big Secret Behind the Coin
The second to last Sunday of 2017 is the 24th, and next Monday is Christmas. The post office has finished all the previous work. According to Director Kerry, the financial departments of SLR and SER will distribute the initial part of the year-end bonus, which is equivalent to three months' salary, to everyone. Then the holiday will start from this afternoon, including New Year's Day, for a total of two weeks until January 1th, so that everyone can have a good rest.

At 2:30 in the afternoon, except for the staff on duty, most of the post office was empty.

Kerry did not leave, but sat alone in the office drinking tea...

Gina and Corissa had already left in the morning. They went to Europe with the president's delegation and took the opportunity to visit their families. They hadn't been back for a long time.

Elizabeth had just left with Dembe to meet up with Reddington and prepare to take Dom on vacation to South America.

Donald took his wife and children to Florida for vacation, and Cooper and Mira went with them.

Nawabi took Alam and Jiva to Israel, the former to meet his parents and the latter to visit relatives; Abby had never been to the Middle East and was eager to go along, so they had no choice but to take her with them.

Elise and Jeffrey were left on duty at SLR, while Brian and his team of four took turns at SER...

Kerry felt that it was boring to go home alone, so he stayed in the office. There was food, drink and a place to rest here, and he planned to spend this holiday here! To this end, he bought a lot of books from Amazon in advance and prepared a lot of special meals in his portable space, which was enough for him to live comfortably!

Just like that, for two weeks, he didn't go anywhere but stayed at the post office, spending his vacation leisurely. He also worked eight days of overtime and earned the most overtime pay in the entire post office!
On Monday, January 2018, 1, all the staff in the post office were present and resumed work as normal. However, there was no change in Carrie's daily routine. He still got up, ate, drank tea, read, and watched TV series according to his own schedule. During this period, he became more interested in the TV programs here, and many American dramas that he had never heard of seemed very interesting!

What no one at the post office expected was that the first blacklist case of the new year was actually the theft of a one-cent coin, and it happened to the Reddington family!
After arriving at the post office, Reddington was a little furious. The one-cent coin he treasured in the safe at home was stolen - the coin worth three million that he stole from Grayson Bryce!
Seeing Carrie's undisguised mocking expression, Reddington became even more annoyed, but his guess was: Carrie must know the secret of the coin, and she was mocking him for concealing the truth!
After sighing, Reddington told the truth - there is a huge secret hidden behind this coin: a Federal Reserve note with a face value of tens of millions, issued in the 1940s!
Ray explained that the existence of the Reserve Notes was never officially acknowledged, but the holders could demand unconditional repayment from the U.S. government. The coin is the treasure map to the Reserve Notes, but there are not just one, but four. These four coins are unique because they are made of bronze, while the other coins minted in 1943 are made of brass!
Collectors believe that the 1943 bronze coins were a misprint, so they value them, but only the minters knew that these four coins contained a map to a huge fortune - marking where to find those lost Federal Reserve Notes! The face value of these reserve notes was tens of millions, and now they are worth hundreds of millions!
Aram checked the law enforcement database for cases related to coins and found three very serious ones: one was the death of an Italian art collector in a house fire not long ago; the second was the murder of an antique dealer in Georgetown during the New Year's Day holiday, and the theft of Reddington's house! No suspects have been found in these three cases.

Seeing this, Donald said, "Old Lei, if what you said is correct, it proves that the same person committed these crimes, and he already has three coins in his hand!"

"Yes, he only needs one more piece, and this guy will get a huge treasure!" Reddington said unhappily.

Kerry, who was listening in, followed up with a sentence: "There is another possibility, that is, this person also has one in his hand, so now he has collected four coins!"

Puff! ... Reddington pretended to vomit blood. If that was the case, he would be totally screwed!
Fortunately, Abby, who had been searching the Internet since she got the relevant information, found the key information: "According to the recorded commercial auction records, these four coins disappeared for 1943 years after they were minted in 30, and only appeared on the market for the first time in 1975...

"Well, I also found out that the fourth coin, which is the missing one, was last traded in 1984. However, the person who bought the coin died two years ago. Before his death, he donated the collection to the University of Pennsylvania. The coin is currently on loan to the local Garbo Museum for exhibition..."
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According to Reddington, the reserve note represented by the coin is now worth hundreds of millions and is too important. Donald immediately took Elizabeth, Nawabi and others to Pennsylvania, hoping to seize this important coin.

As soon as they arrived at the museum, they heard from the person in charge that two insurance company personnel were verifying the authenticity of the coins. Donald and his companions realized something was wrong and immediately rushed to the office. However, at this moment, a fire broke out in the building, and in the chaos, the two insurance company personnel disappeared! Fortunately, the museum staff strictly followed the security procedures and immediately took back the coins and locked them in the safe after the fire alarm sounded!
Donald asked for proof of the coin, but was rejected by the museum and the university. But what they didn't know was that the coin was stolen that night under the protection of heavy security personnel!
However, Carrie, who did this, was "kind-hearted" and left them a fake coin in the safe, without letting anyone know that the coin had been swapped.

On Donald's side, Alam found out based on the museum's surveillance video that the person who pretended to be an insurance company expert was named Abraham Stern, a loan officer at Republic Bank in Manhattan.

After investigation and analysis, the detectives believe that Abraham must have used his authority to approve loans to instigate others to commit crimes. It is certain that more than a dozen suspects are his clients. This guy has big problems!
(End of this chapter)