Identification of finds

A non-trivial question: what do you use to clean your ears? With cotton swabs, most likely, and never in your life did you even realize that you could clean your ears with anything else. But there is one caveat! It turns out that in the…

Today we will talk about the silver scales of the first Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty - Mikhail Fedorovich. During his reign (1613-1645), coins in Russia began to be minted in incredibly large volumes, so they come across…

Good mood to you, dear readers of our blog. Let's discuss today the topic of determining the value of found scales in the field. Metal detectors are becoming better and more affordable every year, and as a result, novice diggers are…

Recently, on one of the thematic forums I saw a typical topic. “Dear forum members, help in identifying items.” And, a whole series of photographs of iron arrowheads. I became interested because even before I became interested in being a…

Instrumental search — This is an interesting and exciting hobby, including because it forces the digger to study the history of the finds he has found. And sometimes this very story can be very interesting and exciting. This was the…

From the series “The History of Interesting Finds” Crosses, like finds, are a common occurrence in our latitudes. Sometimes you can dig up a cop in a couple of hours. Typically this is the 19th century ubiquitous petals. With enamels, with…

Background In 2012, the cost of manufacturing (minting) a coin with a face value of 1 kopeck was 47 kopecks. That year, the Central Bank decided to suspend the minting of coins with a face value of 1 — 5 kopecks. At the moment, these…

Have you heard the story about two guys from Macedonia who dug up an incomprehensible ancient jug and sold it to a tourist from Germany for pennies? The jug turned out to be an old helmet and a tourist from Germany became a millionaire…

Sometimes amazing metamorphoses occur with artifacts found by instrument search enthusiasts. And hypotheses about the origin and dating of these objects sometimes excite the minds of sensation hunters so much that one is simply amazed. And…

Recently, on one famous forum WW2.RU, an auction was held, on the one hand, it seemed to be quite ordinary - well, a dug Iron Cross, and even in proper condition, and on the other hand, a very instructive example of why it is important to…

Buttons from Gulliver's fly - this is what not very experienced treasure hunters sometimes call these finds and, of course, they are mistaken. What you see is nothing more than parts of a horse harness or, in the simple language of…

I continue the topic of identifying the most desirable find on any field for treasure hunters - coins! Moreover, I periodically write about different coins, cheap and expensive, common and mega-rare, in different ways, but all in order to…

This is truly a find. A coin that you will never find because there were only 109 of them issued! As far as we know, naturally, there may be more, but with such a small circulation it will be very, very difficult to prove the originality of…

Quite often, in fields and in former villages, in vegetable gardens, we find buckles of various shapes with incomprehensible images on them. If you are searching in the territory of the former USSR, then I am sure that you have already come…

I continue the topic on the Wehrmacht, identification of finds, in the first part we had a topic about Wehrmacht bowlers from the Second World War, what types were there and how to identify: Wehrmacht Bowler Kochgeschirr 31 (Identification…

Undoubtedly, each of us dreams of someday unearthing a silver Catherine ruble or a gold “Lobanchik”. But, let's be realistic, such luck does not happen as often as we would like, so today we will talk about a more frequent and simple…