Cache Hunting in Leningrad Region, Russia
A Hoard of Early Russian Silver Hammered Coins Discovery
DAY 2
Our Camp Site In the Morning
On Thursday morning, Vasily and Andrei returned from the city to continue the search. We started digging a square hole (1 yard by 1 yard), a prospecting pit, at the "hottest" spot where the most hammered coins were recovered on a previous day. Other treasure hunters began appearing at the site as if they knew that something was going on.
After we deepened the hole 2.5 shovel blades down, we scanned the soil inside, and received a big signal! Suddenly our adrenalin levels went skyrocketing when we took a shovel load of dirt out of the hole and saw this…
Silver Coins In the Dirt!
One Of Those Pleasant Moments
We investigated the hole more and finally noticed a cluster of silver coins on the bottom! "Is this for real?!", we thought in disbelieve. The coins were stacked on top of each other!
A Cache! (Being too excited, I failed to take a good picture.)
We carefully used a knife to cut the cache out and hand-picked all remaining coins that we could see.
Then we widened the hole and scanned every dirt load taken out of it until the coins stopped appearing.
Number of pages - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |