64 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 4 (1/2)

See the electronic coin catalog. Prices vary from 20 cents per 1872 coin to $ 55,000 per 1873 coin. What is the difference? So it is in the circulation of coins, the mint that issued these coins, printing errors.

So, rare coins are expensive, and those coins that have a circulation of 14 million or even all 50 million are worth cents.

What do you think, Dara, how many valuable and rare coins can be found on the road?

- ”Well, probably, the percentage is not very large”?

You're right! Rare coins for three years of searching on the plain and 7 years in the mountains, I just found about 5! Their price was 5000 dollars, some 1000 dollars. One coin was unique ... and if it were intact, it could bring me a fortune! That is about 100 thousand dollars at the auction! However, during the time that it lay in the damp earth, time did not spare the coin, and even when digging it out, I damaged it a bit, the coin with a shovel. They bought it ... but for only $ 1,752, at the price of the weight of gold ... and hello ... disappointment !!!

So you find more coins, kopeks, pfenings, and already ten kopeks, or larger finds, are more rare. Basically it is bronze, copper, silver. Gold coins in the steppe and mountains in the year can be found several times, only 5-7 coins. If you are lucky enough to find a treasure or loose coins. If suddenly someone in ancient times had a wallet with a hole in the halt and money spilled out.

And so ... more and more a trifle. But it also costs money, and there, with luck, maybe there will be a coin of $ 150, or maybe a cent 3.

Once at a time is not necessary.

- ”And what roads, more boogts to catch, plains or mountains?”

Well, you, bro said ?? !!!

Mountain roads, it's hard to actually look at them, you can search for something, you can easily get it. And the highlanders are constantly watching. You found something, dug up coins, then buried. Came the next day and there a big hole was opened. And then the locals begin to visit, asking whether the catch was rich? I have found? Show me a coin? And they say - I definitely saw from that mountain that you found two coins!

And before that mountain was 300 meters? !!!! But they see well! That's what the highlanders are!

So some of my finds supplement the budget of a mountain village, a small tax for finds. Well, you can also understand them, they find coins on their land. Some, said the historian, I presented to the museum of local lore. But then they were stolen ... this often happens in museums in the countryside. Well, okay, something remained in the museum ... and then, okay.

But treasure hunting is just a hobby for me. And there are those who earn their living from this.

Personally, I get half a year to get coins and other scrap metal for 28-34 thousand dollars as lucky, in other years I can only earn 3,000 dollars. It all depends on luck.

Sometimes you can find an old blade and earn 5-6 hundred dollars on it, sometimes find an old jug of copper and earn $ 4000. And sometimes the coins of 1954 and immediately get 7800 dollars! This is how lucky!

_ ”Well, how is the search process itself”? He asked, Dara.