Reiska
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I'm back. 
Last year was not so good. I was busy with work and couldn't do most of the areas i wanted to. Summer was also very cold. We went from spring directly to fall and many crops failed.
Yesterday i went back to a site i began searching on last year. The site is very old and has many large old buildings on it with parks, footpaths and fields.
There is this one small wooded area very close to the main building which is basically like a small palace where you can arrange parties and such. I couldn't do most of it a year ago since it was quite overgrown but now it's completely flattened. So i went there yesterday expecting to find some decent coins. Immediately came across a nice copper from around 1630. Then another one right next to it.
Only minutes later i had 4 more from the same spot.
Then as if that wasn't enough:
A massive 1650 1 öre. Those small ones are actually quarters of that one. It measures about 2 inches across.
They're all in a decent shape and one of them looks like it's been against one that is not here so there's likely to be more down there somewhere. I'm leaning towards a cache on this one. Caches from this time period are quite common. Russian armies were doing a lot of raiding in the area during the great northern war of 1700-1721. Then again in 1740's. People hid what they could and sometimes never went back to retrieve them.
Later i found two more and a small silver ring from the 80's. Some modification done to one of the coins. Not from the same spot but around the same area.
I'm not cleaning the coins up or digging any more from that spot until the authorities decide what should be done. I'd love to see these put on display at a local museum after professional conservation.
Last year was not so good. I was busy with work and couldn't do most of the areas i wanted to. Summer was also very cold. We went from spring directly to fall and many crops failed.
Yesterday i went back to a site i began searching on last year. The site is very old and has many large old buildings on it with parks, footpaths and fields.
There is this one small wooded area very close to the main building which is basically like a small palace where you can arrange parties and such. I couldn't do most of it a year ago since it was quite overgrown but now it's completely flattened. So i went there yesterday expecting to find some decent coins. Immediately came across a nice copper from around 1630. Then another one right next to it.
Only minutes later i had 4 more from the same spot.
Then as if that wasn't enough:
A massive 1650 1 öre. Those small ones are actually quarters of that one. It measures about 2 inches across.
They're all in a decent shape and one of them looks like it's been against one that is not here so there's likely to be more down there somewhere. I'm leaning towards a cache on this one. Caches from this time period are quite common. Russian armies were doing a lot of raiding in the area during the great northern war of 1700-1721. Then again in 1740's. People hid what they could and sometimes never went back to retrieve them.
Later i found two more and a small silver ring from the 80's. Some modification done to one of the coins. Not from the same spot but around the same area.
I'm not cleaning the coins up or digging any more from that spot until the authorities decide what should be done. I'd love to see these put on display at a local museum after professional conservation.
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