Relic Hunting In Karelia

Nights of Coins and Relics

While searching in All Metal mode for the sake of the maximum detecting depth, I had no choice but to dig up all the modern junk - pieces and small wads of aluminum wire, brass casings, aluminum bottle caps, etc. That slowed me a big deal because I had to get rid of all shallow targets in order to get to the deeper cultural layers. The ratio Junk-to-Coin was 5 to 1.

Dug Coin in Dirt

Another Russian Coin circa 18th Century

18th Century Russian Coin Dug

The following picture shows a coin identical in design to the one I found.

1791 5 Kopeks

I kept digging up more coins.

Found Another Old Coin Again

Russian 1842 1/2 Kopek

Russian 1842 1/2 Kopek

And Another...

Another Dug Coin