The Blacklist

Chapter 364: Uncovering the Secret Plan to Seize the Ticket
The next day at work, Reddington suddenly came to the post office to find Carrie. When they met, he said, "Lee, tell me, is the coin in the museum...oh, I mean the real one, is it in your hands?"

Carrie was holding the teacup in a daze. After a while, he said, "Lao Lei, what do you mean? Are you saying that I got the coin?"

After hesitating for a moment, Reddington became firm and said through gritted teeth: "Lee, you can't scare me! I want to know now if the fourth coin is in your hand?"

Kerry smiled, looked at the anxious old man in front of him and said, "What do you think?"

Seeing his smile, Reddington breathed a sigh of relief and also laughed, saying, "Great! I knew you would cause trouble! Hurry up and take out the coin, I need it!"

"What are you going to use it for?" Carrie asked, "Take out those reserve certificates, exchange them for cash from the Federal Reserve, and increase your capital reserves?"

"I have this idea, but not completely." Reddington did not hide it. "This money can stay out of my hands, but I can't allow it to fall into the hands of other criminals! I don't know if you understand what I mean by this?"

"I understand!" Carrie said, "Money is a good thing, but it depends on what you use it for! Old Lei, I want to find a place for this money, what do you think?"

"That depends on where you plan to go." Reddington was very clear-headed.

"The Red Cross Charity Federation of China!" said Carrie.

Reddington was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, "Lee, I'm impressed, you're really good at this!"

Then, Reddington told everything he knew about the coins, which wasn't much, just that Abraham Stern's father minted four special bronze coins and hid the secret of the treasure in them, but that was all he knew.

After thinking about it, Carrie decided to give the coin to Reddington and let him use it to try to lure Abraham out...
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Reddington contacted Abraham through underground channels in the name of "Red Devil", claiming that he had the fourth coin in his hands and asked to cooperate with him and share the batch of reserve tickets!

Abraham had been secretly searching for the four coins for nearly forty years. Of course, he had heard of the reputation of the "Red Devil" and knew that he had the ability to get the last coin, so he agreed to meet.

The two met in a hidden empty warehouse. After confirming that the fourth coin was real, they began to discuss cooperation...

Abraham insisted that the reserve notes were a legacy from his father, and even though the fourth coin in the hands of the "Red Devil" was extremely important, he could only take a quarter at most.

Reddington agreed "reluctantly", but he was very curious, why did these four coins contain the secret of the reserve voucher? Having decided to cooperate, Abraham also opened his heart to Reddington and told him the whole story!

Abraham's father used to work at the Denver Mint under the Treasury Department. He rose from an apprentice to a designer, but he was suspected after a batch of freshly printed Federal Reserve notes were lost. Although he was not prosecuted in the end due to lack of solid evidence, he was still demoted to a maintenance worker in the boiler room.

His father struck these four coins in 1943, when he was fired from the Mint.

Later, before his death, his father gave four coins to Abraham, who was only 16 years old at the time. But the naive Abraham used them to buy candies!
A month later, he received an email from his father that was delayed, and learned that his father had indeed stolen the batch of reserve notes and hidden them, and the hiding place was among the four coins!
But it was too late, the four coins had long disappeared!
So, in the following forty years, he kept searching for the whereabouts of the four coins, and suffered a lot for it. He stole, robbed, defrauded, murdered, and did all kinds of bad things... Only now did he finally collect them all again!
After listening to Abraham's narration, Reddington was very impressed and expressed his admiration for his perseverance. Then he said to the air: "Okay, things are finally clear, we can get started!"

"What do you mean?" Abraham was stunned, and then he saw the warehouse door open and two people walked in...
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Abraham's sins are worth thousands of dollars, so Carrie doesn't have to worry about killing the wrong person. After killing him with one shot, she leaves with Gina and Reddington with the four coins. The rest will naturally be taken care of by Felix.

After returning to the post office, Carey took the initiative and quickly deciphered the secret of the coins - a part of the map was hidden in the patterns of Lincoln's head on each of the four coins, and when put together, they formed a part of the Rocky Mountains. The location pointed to was exactly the Denver Mint, and the missing letters on the outer circle of the coins combined together formed the "boiler room."

Compared with what Abraham said before, when his father was demoted to a boilerman, it made sense to hide the reserve coupons in the boiler room.

By querying the internal database, Carey retrieved the architectural drawings of the Denver Mint, but found that the mint building had been renovated many times in previous years. The original boiler room was abandoned and enclosed with a sixteen-inch thick concrete wall, and the outer room became an old coin recycling room.

Looking at the blueprint, Gina frowned and said, "This is troublesome. There is no way to get in!"

"I have a way to get in!" Reddington said, "Even getting those reserve coupons is not a problem, but if you want to exchange the reserve coupons for money, you need to find the Ministry of Finance, which will be very troublesome..."

Kerry had thought about this problem a long time ago, and vaguely felt that there was a possibility that he could try, so he said, "I'll be in charge of the exchange, and Lao Lei, you just need to be in charge of finding the things!"
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On Thursday, January 1, the “Ticket Grabbing Operation” began.

Reddington rushed to Colorado and converted a pickup truck into a bank escort vehicle, painting logos such as "Federal Credit Bank" and "Armed Escort" on the body of the vehicle. Carrie prepared several "real" certificates for him and entered his information into the Federal Reserve employee database.

The eight million dollars in old banknotes prepared by Reddington's accountant were loaded onto the armored car. He and Felix's guard team escorted the vehicle to the Denver Mint - this was a normal currency recycling and replacement behavior. The Mint would recycle these old banknotes, mark them as invalid, and then exchange them for new banknotes of the same denomination for the bank!

The guard at the mint had been notified and knew that old banknotes would be delivered. He checked the documents and let them pass after a brief inspection. Felix drove the car directly to the old banknote recycling area, which was very remote, in the corner of the mint, not far from the courtyard wall. Because there was a cliff outside the wall, the security was very lax, which was very beneficial for the operation!

(End of this chapter)