Finds

Do you feel angry when digging up rusty iron? For some people, it’s not simply metal trash. Here, this is the very case when one man threw some stuff away, whereas another picked it up and created an amazing and expensive item.…

Did you think that coins were always round? No, coins of all different shapes are found in different countries. Take, for example, the clips of the Swedish Empire - large squares and rectangles made of copper, which sometimes fall under the…

If extraterrestrials are looking at our Earth through a large telescope right now, most likely they are seeing back to… the early days of the colonial period in North America. The speed of light is not too fast. It will take 300 or 400…

A new video from the interesting channel Monetos TV talks about the Nikolaev 3 rubles of 1869. Have you come across such a saffron milk cap? A rarity, a valuable and interesting red-haired rarity, after watching the video I wanted to dig…

Among the collections of various items related to the Second World War (World War II), the collection of everything related to the SS troops stands out separately. These are the most valuable and expensive exhibits, because even an SS…

When you dig in the old days, the finds include not only coins, but also various “accompanying items” (finds from the same period as the coins, various household and personal items) - buttons, most often, small household items and pectoral…

Ask yourself a question - does your cop bring you money? Diggers make money in different ways; for some, it takes years to find the first gold and somehow pay for the equipment, equipment and fuel; for others, digging for positions brings…

The royal scale is a rather rare find for us. Where more often you come across local Livonian, Swedish and Polish-Lithuanian silver and not very pennies. As a rule, they are slightly larger in size. This time I was lucky enough to find a…

Foggy morning in a spring field and Fischer F75...) Early spring in our Scandinavian latitudes is characterized by low grass, cold and wind. Not a resort, of course, but the northerners will not be broken so easily! The thirst for green…

Alexander the First. Tsar Liberator and Tsar “Blessed”, as he was called in pre-revolutionary times. And so it really was! An outstanding ruler, diplomat and politician. He knew how to please everyone, but most of all he knew how to hold…

Copper pennies from such an early era are quite interesting and unusual in design, as well as being rarely found on the coin. Therefore, it is simply necessary to dwell on them in more detail. Moreover, it can be difficult for an…

The dream of any novice war hacker or comrade who proudly calls himself a “military archaeologist” is to acquire a captured German device—a fork-spoon or a “folding machine.” This field household item is a fork and spoon riveted together.…

It happens that you go for a year and not a single treasure, and someone takes the treasure in their hands a second time and here is a treasure for thousands of bucks... I’ll tell you one of these stories about an excellent find in the…

During wartime digging, the German brass fuse ZZ 35 (Zug Zünder 35) and its extended version ZuZZ 35 can be considered a frequent find. However, these are two different fuses. Both were intended for an anti-personnel jumping mine (“spring”)…

The coins that you often come across are trash, even if they are old. For archaeologists, of course, any coin, especially an ancient one, is important as a carrier of information for subsequent exploration of the site. For coiners and…

What's the most pleasant thing that happens on a war patrol? I think that many will agree with me if I name German trophies - breastplates, crosses, tokens, rings, etc. This is the real joy of a trophy owner! Oddly enough, the…