Where is the best place to look for treasures? Treasure in your home is not a fairy tale, but an obvious reality

The task was simple. Write about how they search for treasures and how much it costs as a hobby. But life turned out to be much more diverse. Details in the photo report. As they say, believe it or not.

The whole story began, as usual, with a random call. On Saturday, my boss and I were going to relax in nature in the company of treasure-hunting friends: drink beer and eat barbecue, and at the same time watch how many people “in the soap” with metal detectors are constantly digging for something. After all, as they say, there are things that you can look at endlessly: fire, water and other people's work. But since meteorologists predicted prolonged rains for Saturday, the prospect of sitting and freezing in an open field in the middle of the clay abysses of the Vladimir region, 50 kilometers from the nearest populated area, did not seem particularly attractive to us. Therefore, it was decided to spend the weekend doing a less extreme activity, namely reading the accumulated fiction.

"Gold rush"

Saturday, contrary to forecasts, turned out to be sunny and warm, but for us this no longer mattered - the enthusiasts left early in the morning without us. At three o'clock in the afternoon I received a call from my friend Peter. Out of breath, he blurted out: “We found a treasure. Within an hour we had already obtained 30 nickels in excellent condition. We’re digging, I’m turning off the phone...” As lyrical digression I will say one thing: finding even a few old coins is a great rarity, but a collection of any coins, namely a treasure, is an event that an enthusiastic digger will remember for many years to come, and will be discussed in various forums and conferences for at least six months.

Let me explain for non-professionals. Burying coins in the ground is an old Russian pastime. Of these coins, 99.9%, due to mass production, represent only a piece of non-ferrous metal with a half-erased bas-relief and are sold in any antique store or on numismatic sites at a price of $1 per piece.

Get into your grandparents' piggy banks and get them silver coins, which you consider “terribly expensive”, and estimate their cost on the Internet. I'm afraid you will be very disappointed. This is memory, not wealth.

But let's continue. On Sunday, Peter came to see me and joyfully said: “We dug until dark, we dug up 140 pieces, everyone had to run errands and go to work, we’ll go dig it up soon.” According to estimates, there should have been another 150 to 350 coins left in the ground.

As a parting gift, a colleague gave me a half-worn nickel from 1796, twice the size of a Soviet ruble. In general, a weighty thing, for happiness and good luck. There is such a sign about coins from the treasure.
On Monday, a group of amateur diggers could no longer think about anything other than their treasure, and it was decided to go to the site on the night of Monday to Tuesday: “Dig, dig, and dig again!” Enthusiasm is a contagious thing, and I suggested that the boss go with his colleagues, look at the treasure, and, if possible, write a short report for our readers. Alas, on Tuesday the boss had about 3 meetings and 2 interviews... A financial company is not a place where you can “get away from work” in the middle of the week. Reluctantly, I was released with the treasure hunters under a rather fictitious pretext. I always trusted the boss’s intuition, maybe something interesting would turn out.

Beginners are lucky

And now the outpatient clinic. Upon arrival, the group of enthusiasts discovered mud, rain and a huge dug up surface at the site of their discovery. I can't put into words the expression on their faces. Grief and sorrow reigned over the field. Various shades of sadness were read in the eyes, ranging from quiet sadness to deep despair. From the outside, they resembled people who were informed of the death of all their relatives at once, and not one left a will. In general, “the enemies burned his home and killed his entire family,” as in the song.

There was nowhere to go. I took out my metal detector, which I bought for some reason last spring and have never touched it since then for various reasons (from inability to use it to a deep hatred of any digging in principle), and melancholy began to wander with it along the edge of the grassy slope, enjoying the shimmer of sounds from the speaker made by old buckets, shovels, nails, beer caps and pieces of wire and cigarette foil that were found in abundance in the ground.

But then the metal detector beeped suspiciously. Friend Peter, who was nearby, immediately dug a huge hole. At the bottom of the pit were found fragments of a broken pot the size of a sugar bowl, thickly mixed with small and large silver coins. From the expression on Peter’s face, I realized that it was precisely for such a moment that any treasure hunter would be willing to dig his whole life. For me personally, this moment came in the middle of some garbage dump on the outskirts of the road, 20 minutes after I picked up a metal detector for the second time in my life. And, apparently, the latter, because, as mentioned earlier, I don’t like digging and don’t believe in treasures.

Alas, among the half-erased silver “round pieces” there was not a single rare coin. This was easily installed using GPRS internet and Peter's laptop. An unpleasant moment for us was the cost of GPRS in roaming. Very quickly we spent all the money on Peter’s phone, and then on mine.

JEEP-safari, or “PatriotIZM” in Russian

Further inspection of the trash heap revealed the presence of two shovels, one axe, an unlimited number of pieces of roofing iron and nails. I will sadly remain silent about foil and beer caps. Those who dug will understand. Damn corks are perfectly preserved in the ground and “scream” exactly as loudly and clearly as real coins. And considering that beer with metal caps began to be made already at the end of the 19th century... You can imagine the scale of the “disaster”. Tired of fruitless searches, we decided to move to a neighboring field, where, according to assumptions (namely, according to the map on a CD, which has been sold in any sports and hunting store for ten years now) there was once a village.

Alas, the UAZ-patriot shamefully sat on its belly on the first muddy section of the road. The Chevy Niva pulled us out twice until we finally sat down. I think it’s funny to call a car an SUV that doesn’t have wheel locks and that, when it hits a clay road, begins to helplessly skid with its two wheels “diagonally.” To be fair, otherwise I have no complaints about the Patriot. A huge and quite comfortable car.
At nine in the evening, Petya’s friend Slava from Aleksandrov came to our rescue and heroically got stuck in the mud next to us (his JEEP at that moment did not have a front driveshaft, and he drove to our land on rear wheel drive). Later, the same Slava called friends from Aleksandrov to a ZIL-131, which in pitch darkness finally pulled both Slava and us out. The field by this time had turned into a large muddy swamp.
Now about the money. How much did we earn and how much did we spend?

Our expenses:

2 metal detectors: – 28,000 rubles
Shovels, covers, batteries – 3000 rubles
Gasoline – 2,000 rubles
Shish kebab-beer-barbecue-charcoal: 2000 rubles
2 pairs of boots: – 800 rubles
2 XB suits: 1000 rubles
Socks in boots: - 800 rubles
Washing the car and interior from clay - 1000 rubles.
Sciatica, wet feet and runny nose, as well as scandal from wives - free of charge.

The task is completed, we will live!

As for income, a handful of silver, when valued at an online auction, will cost a maximum of several thousand rubles. And such rare successes happen to approximately every hundredth treasure hunter once every 10 years. In such cases, it is easier to give coins to friends and acquaintances “for good luck” than to go to your home state or to private appraisers.

Even if you become the owner rare coins, then you will be given a maximum of 10% of their value for them. However, we are morally in the black. And the main thing is the fulfillment of the editorial task. The order was to find the treasure and make a report about it - it was done. These are the rules in our company. The company generously decided not to claim the treasure.

As for you, dear readers, by God, I don’t advise you to even try. Tens of thousands of enthusiastic treasure hunters dug through the Moscow and adjacent regions more thoroughly than hundreds of excavators. In places where there used to be villages there have long been standing garden plots, and the fields were plowed thousands of times by tractors. So treasure hunters are usually happy when at least one copper coin is found on country roads during a day of continuous digging. True, I know people who have made money from this, but there are very few of them.

If, after reading this story, you still decide to start treasure hunting, remember: one of the minimum elements of equipment is a set of metal detectors worth 200-300 thousand rubles each, a couple of jeeps and at least one escalator on a trailer.

However, every weekend thousands of people go to the same places and “dig and dig and
They're digging." Well, I’m unlikely to get a repeat assignment to find the treasure, so I’ll be picking mushrooms “retirement style.” My family won’t forgive me for another trip like this. The life of a henpecked man is not easy, you know. What can we say about hunters and fishermen... Many will understand me. As for the treasure, consider it a work of fiction. But the photos of the trip and the photos of the excavations are genuine. Radiculitis and runny nose too.
Take care of yourself.

Treasure is money or valuable objects buried in the ground or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is unknown and cannot be found or has lost the right to it. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the discovered treasure is divided equally between the finder and the owner of the land (building, structure) where it was found. However, the treasure hunter and the owner of the land can agree in advance on other proportions for the division of the treasure.
If the treasure hunter has not received the consent of the owner of the land (building), where he subsequently discovered the treasure, to search, then the treasure is completely transferred to the owner of the land (building).
If the objects contained in the treasure are of artistic value, they are transferred to the state. The state pays a reward for this in the amount of half the value of the found treasure. This amount is divided between the treasure hunter and the owner of the land (building) as described above.
People hired to search for treasure, as well as those for whom searching for treasure is part of their professional duties (for example, archaeologists), are not treasure hunters and cannot lay claim to the treasure.
N.B.
This story is based on real events, the coins in the photographs are dummies. The material was created for readers interested in the subject and is educational.
P.S.

You understand that this story is true, right?

Moscow is full of secrets and mysteries. Enemy raids, fires and troubled times forced residents to resort to the most reliable “bank” of all time: a hole in the ground and a hiding place at home. Legends about the capital's treasures have worried the capital's residents for many centuries. How to find treasure today?

What is a treasure?

In adventure films, a treasure is a chest with gold, diamonds and jewelry. IN real life Most often, small blackened coins, buttons, dishes and other objects from past eras are found. To become a real treasure hunter, you need to understand the finds and know what is valuable and what is not. After all, a handful of blackened coins or a nondescript figurine may well cost more than a gold bar.

“A handful of blackened coins or a tatty figurine may well be worth more than a gold bar.” Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko

Legality of searches

According to the law adopted in 2013, searches are allowed in areas where settlements and other traces of human activity older than 100 years have not been recorded, on public beaches, and at battle sites.

Excavations are prohibited at sites of former settlements that are more than 100 years old, at sites included in the register of historical monuments.

If the treasure is recognized as a historical and cultural monument, the finder is entitled to 50% of its value. This amount is divided between the treasure hunter and the owner of the territory where the find was made. A treasure hunter who searches without the permission of the owner of the land or house receives nothing.

Where to look

Over the entire history of Moscow, 100 treasures found within the historical boundaries of the city have been officially recorded. About 200 more finds were made in the Moscow region. According to researchers, total quantity The artifacts found, of which the state knows nothing, number in the thousands. City treasures are often “richer” than those near Moscow, but they are found less and less often: digging in the center of the capital is prohibited, and there are few old buildings left. In the Moscow region, the chances of finding something are much greater, and this is where treasure hunters' searches are most often concentrated.

Old Moscow houses keep many secrets. Behind door frames, under window sills and floors you can find hiding places, rolled coins and other small objects. In the attics, they most often hid what was dangerous to keep in the apartment: weapons, stolen items and other illegally acquired property.

In Soviet five-story buildings undergoing demolition you can also find a lot of interesting things. Soviet coins, postcards, badges and other items that were forgotten or left behind, considered unnecessary, often bring treasure hunters a good income.

A treasure of 140 gold Russian and foreign coins from 1917, found in Moscow in Tikhvinsky Lane in 1990. Exhibition of Russian treasures at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. Photo: RIA Novosti / Igor Mikhalev Ancient burial places arouse keen interest among treasure hunters. True, Russian searchers were less fortunate than European ones: it was customary among the Slavs to put everyday items in the grave, not jewelry.

On the battlefields There are many artifacts lying in the ground. Items of ammunition, orders, medals, weapons - all of this has great historical value.

Abandoned villages also rich in finds. Old coins and other antiques can be found behind door frames, under floors and in attics, in the ground around houses and in the streets.

Much can be found on former fairs, markets and other crowded places . The land here is replete with everyday items from past times, coins, and if you're lucky, you can even find a cache of money and other valuables. In addition, you can search at former crossings where carts often traveled, near springs and wells, in ravines and dry stream beds.

Five most valuable Moscow treasures

Large Kremlin treasure. In 1988, a 12th-century treasure was found near the Spassky Gate, consisting of 300 items: silver head ornaments, pendants, temple rings, and silver ingots.

Jewelry from the Great Kremlin Treasure. Found in 1988 near the Spassky Gate. The items were made in Rus' in the 12th - early 13th centuries. Hidden in 1238 during the invasion of Batu Khan to Moscow. Fragments of temple rings, studs, buttons, beads. Not restored. Silver, granulation, filigree, niello, forging, soldering. Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Korobeinikov

Ipatiev coin hoard. 3,398 coins (over 74 kg of silver) were found in Ipatievsky Lane. The coins were minted in Spanish mints and lay 6 meters underground from the 17th century until 1970, when they were accidentally discovered during construction.

Treasure of the Dyakovo settlement. A treasure found in Kolomenskoye in the 19th century changed the entire historiography of Moscow. Among the finds are items from the 5th-6th centuries: clay weights, bone and iron arrowheads, iron knives and sickles, and items of primitive art.

A group of archaeologists in the underground of the Moscow Kremlin near the white stone walls. 1976 Photo: RIA Novosti / M. Nachinkin

Treasure at the site of the Rossiya Hotel. In 1967, during the construction of the northern ramp of the hotel, a clay jug was found at a depth of about seven meters, containing 58 half and 2 rubles of the 15th-16th centuries.

Treasure from Ilyinka. Found in 1909, the treasure consisted of 22,000 coins from the times Mikhail Fedorovich And Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov. The total weight of the find was 11 kilograms of pure silver.

Five unfound Moscow treasures

Money of False Dmitry. After the overthrow False Dmitry It turned out that 300 thousand rubles in gold were missing from the treasury. Spend that kind of money for short time he could not reign. Therefore, a legend appeared about a treasure buried somewhere on the territory of Moscow.

Diamond of Sonya Golden Hand. According to legend, the famous thief Sonya put a huge diamond in a samovar and hid it not far from the Khitrov market.

Treasure of Count Rastopchin. After the Battle of Borodino, the count, who at that time held the post of Governor-General of Moscow, urgently retreated from his Voronovo estate and decided to burn the house with all its property. A note was left for the French: “Here you will find one ashes!” However, according to many historians, this was just a political gesture, and the wealth is still stored somewhere on the estate.

Treasure of Vanka Cain. A swindler, thief and rogue who lived in the 18th century, owner of the first banned casino, Vanka Cain, according to rumors, was fabulously rich. After his arrest, the authorities promised to release him from prison if he told where he hid the treasure. But even under torture, Vanka insisted that he was a poor man. Nothing was found during a search of his home in Zaryadye. According to legend, the treasure is still hidden somewhere in the area.

Library of Ivan the Terrible. Famous library Ivan the Terrible, according to historians, consisted not only of books (which in themselves are priceless today), but also of untold wealth. The main evidence of the existence of the legendary Liberea is considered to be the testimony of a Protestant pastor Johann Wettermann. His words are quoted in his “Livonian Chronicle” Franz Nienstedt(XVI century): “The books, like precious treasures, were kept walled up in two vaulted cellars.” It is not known for certain where these basements are.

Well, who among us as a child did not dream of searching and finding treasures? Some are so keen on this idea that they carry it throughout their lives and engage in an exciting hobby - treasure hunting. This is quite a difficult task, not much like relaxation, and it is not crowned with success every time. But the adrenaline of unearthing a new find is incomparable. If you have been dreaming about this for a long time, then we will help you figure out how to find the treasure.

Finding treasure is a very difficult thing. First of all, remember - luck and luck again. It is this fickle sister who, sometimes, will turn a beginner who goes out on a search for the first time into a lucky one, while avoiding an experienced treasure hunter. Accordingly, if you have firmly decided to take up this business, it is absolutely clear that you will have a bunch of current issues– where to look, how to look, when to look, etc. Let’s look point by point:

• where to look. The answer is very simple - in the places where the treasure is supposed to be located. You can easily find out about these places from ancient legends, stories and ordinary logical judgments. You can do this - choose an old village in mind, appease its very elderly resident (with the help of alcohol), and you will hear many legends about treasures and burials of treasures. Villages like these are an ideal place to search for ancient, most valuable treasures. However, there is a simplified option - favorite places rest of people. These are various beaches, forest clearings, etc. Vacationers with alcohol could probably lose something valuable, lose sight of it, and sometimes the sea itself washes valuable things ashore.
• how to search. Here you have a choice - you can use auxiliary tools - metal detectors, or start searching empty-handed. But for the second option, you need to be more or less sure of the presence of a find, otherwise there is a high probability of wasting time.
• when to look. Well, it’s very simple here - to search you need to choose a calm, cool, but not rainy weather. It is best at the beginning of summer and at the beginning - at the end of autumn.

Prayer to find treasure

As already stated, great value good luck for treasure hunting. Therefore, and for a number of other reasons (to calm the forces guarding the treasure, to protect one’s own soul), various customs and conspiracies have become so popular among treasure hunters. Everyone has their own, and experienced comrades will not share with you. For example, there is a well-known custom of burying various objects in the ground - food, drinks, etc. to appease the earthly spirit, or on the principle of compensation in case of a successful search. Christians have their own patrons of treasure hunting among the saints - St. John and the Apostle Gold.

The prayer for a successful and safe search sounds like this:

Where were the treasures hidden?

In order for the treasure hunt to be successful, it is necessary to find out exactly the places where they most often hid their savings in ancient times. First of all, look at your home, no matter how paradoxical it may sound. There are many stories about finding old money, gold and coins in the attic, in the closet, in an abandoned barn and basement, in old chests or hiding places under the floor, especially if your home is more than fifty years old. Perhaps your great-great-grandmothers and great-great-grandfathers tried to hide their wealth using this very method.

Let's return to the topic of old villages. It can be assumed that most often villagers and peasants in the old days buried money in the ground. And so that the loosened earth did not attract attention, and it was dangerous to place the treasure too far away due to the possibility of its loss, they buried jewelry and coins in the yard and vegetable garden. Therefore, you can check such places near abandoned, old-built houses and territories.

More recently, the beginning of the 19th century, during the period of dispossession, it became popular to hide savings in a well. However, searching there, especially if the water intake site is made of wood, is terribly dangerous, you may fail, and there is a risk of the structure collapsing. Therefore, without skill and preparation, and also if the place is unreliable, you should not climb there.

Well, the most common places are, of course, beaches, forest clearings and others natural areas, but only with a corresponding story.

But still, no matter how much you want to find treasures, avoid disturbing the peace of old graves, mounds and other historical places. Not only can you be punished for this criminal liability, there is a high probability of causing trouble.

Believe the old legend, and perhaps luck will smile on you.

How to find treasure without a metal detector

Century modern technologies has made treasure hunting much easier; all you need to do is equip yourself with such a useful thing as a metal detector and simply scan surfaces for the presence of the necessary metals. But how romantic it is to conduct excavations without a metal detector, and it’s not always possible to use one.

Finding treasure without a metal detector is not easy, but terribly interesting. Here you need to rely on your eyes, attentiveness and logic. First of all, you need to pay special attention to the time and place of searches - it is best to search in spring and autumn, after rain - the soil will become loose, easy to dig, and the water will wash away a little top layer soil. You need to go on a search to ancient places mentioned in legends, where the likelihood of a successful search is higher. When you arrive at the site, pay attention to the surface; the presence of fragments of ceramics and clay, bricks indicates the possible location of the find.

You can dig in several ways - simply dig a hole or trench, or lay holes - remove the soil layer by layer and at a certain distance. This is very hard work, but it significantly increases the chance of being found. If during your search you come across a coin or something like that, or some kind of shard, you are on the right path, don’t stop. It would be advisable to dig through the entire area using the pit method to search for even greater finds.

And most importantly, don’t forget to clean up after yourself and put the search area in order after the excavation in any case!

First, you need to decide on the word “treasure” itself. What exactly do you personally mean by this concept?

There are people for whom something large-scale and powerful lies in such a word. For example, they imagine Spanish galleons loaded with silver and gold, or weighty chests and barrels filled with precious stones and countless treasures. If you are one of these people, you will be somewhat disappointed. Such ideas arise due to a distorted understanding of the term “treasure hunter.”

When searching for treasure, you will need to be able to clearly navigate your finds, determining their true value. After all, something that at first seemed like useless nonsense to you may well cost a fortune.

The fact is that treasure can be not only a sunken ship. They may turn out to be 2-3 ordinary in appearance and very much from the time of Peter I, which you managed to dig up in your grandmother’s garden using a metal detector. In this case, you have every reason to consider yourself a real treasure hunter, and your couple of coins as a found treasure.

How to choose a place where the treasure may be located?

Treasure can be found in any, even the most unexpected place. For example, this could happen completely by accident. Thus, the famous “Glodos belongings” were found by an ordinary collective farmer from the Kirovograd region when he was working in his garden.

You can search for treasure purposefully, for example, in historical famous places. Thus, many treasure hunters carry out their work in the Sevastopol Bay, where in ancient times Russian-Turkish war English ships with gold sank.

There are legends about treasures hidden in Volgograd region. As the legends say, which are passed down from generation to generation by the local residents of this region, treasures were buried on the Volga land richest people past - Stepan Razin, Emelyan Pugachev, Batu Khan. To date, no one has found hidden treasures there yet.

As shown recent years, the most expensive treasures are discovered in the city during the demolition and restoration of old houses. But the countryside leads in the number of finds. When searching rural areas, it is necessary to understand the reasons for the presence of treasures in them. For example, in the place where there was a fair in the 18th century, there may be not only a clearing rich in finds, but also a couple of caches with jugs filled with money from those years.

The best place to look for treasure in rural areas- old tracts. The likelihood of a find is higher if the old abandoned city or village was once destroyed during a war or, for example, a revolution.

How to look for treasures in such places? To accurately determine the location of the caches, you will need a couple of large-scale maps. The first of them should be from those years, revolution or war, and the other should be modern. By placing one card on top of another, you can find out what buildings were previously located on the current ruins or wasteland.

How to look for treasures

For search work you will need standard treasure hunting equipment. This is a GPS navigator or compass, a mining shovel and a metal detector. If you are used to approaching everything carefully, you can ask the old-timers of that area about their stories and legends. Of the hundred legends that will be told to you, one may turn out to be a real story.

So, you have reached your destination - to the former locality. Checking with , try to select for research suitable site. Start by searching with a metal detector. You may stumble upon something valuable even at the turf level.

When searching for treasure, you will need to show composure, attention and accuracy.

It is best if the place where you want to find the treasure has several hundred years of history. In this case, in the soil under your feet you can find up to several hundred coins different eras.

After this, you can start searching for clothing caches. Imagine a situation in which people in the past, during a revolution or World War II, were forced to suddenly and quickly leave their homes. The more urgent the departure, the less things they could take with them. So people simply buried their belongings, hoping to retrieve them later.

However, as practice shows, in 99 percent out of 100 such caches remain for centuries, and no one returns for them. Such treasures may contain useful and surprising items. Here you will need not just a metal detector, but a device capable of operating at a sufficiently high great depth.

To know what exactly you might stumble upon, you need to understand the mechanism by which these treasures are created. Usually, various valuables and belongings were placed in durable chests or boxes. A decent-sized hole was dug right next to the house, into which people dumped their things, covering them with stones, earth, etc.

It is best to look for such caches in gardens and courtyards, in sheds and vegetable gardens. In some houses, the floorboards were dismantled, and a hole was dug into the foundation itself. The boxes were put there too. That is why it is so important to determine the location of the old building and its utility rooms before starting a treasure hunt.

Even if over time the house was blown apart, figure out where the porch, courtyards, and sheds were located. It’s also useful to use your head and think about where something could be buried here.

Have you ever thought that in order to find a treasure, you don’t have to travel to some incredible distance, but just look around your home, think, reflect and logically determine its location in your living areas? It turns out that this is quite possible; you should not assume that a treasure in your home is an idea from the realm of fantasy. Especially if the building is more than 50 years old. Old buildings are an ideal place where you can probably find even a small treasure. After all, the concept of “treasure” does not necessarily mean a pot of gold - even a few coins, banknotes or jewelry hundred years ago can be very valuable.

So, how and where to look to find treasure at home? If you are the owner of a country house that was built by your great-grandfather, then you can guarantee that the first finds may be in door and window blocks and even in cash. Although, at first glance, these places may seem incredible, but, as the practice of treasure hunting shows, coins, various buttons, pen feathers, small objects, receipts and much more are found here that can be of interest to both collectors and government officials. museums.

The second generally accepted place is the joints of the mother beams of the floor structure. Of course, they are not so easy to get to, and you will have to stock up on tools in the form of a hatchet and a pry bar, since you will have to remove the floor covering to get to the indicated place. To be more confident in finding valuable items here, you can use, although without special training When working with it, it is not difficult to be deceived and mistake forged nails and staples for valuables, by means of which the uteruses were fastened together. But silver coins or even banknotes can be a pleasant bonus; it was customary to hide them here for a “rainy day.”

By the way, there is still such a tradition as “wasting money” at a wedding, when guests and toastmasters begin to shower the newlyweds with small change and then force the bride and groom to collect it, either by hand or with the help of a broom and dustpan. Naturally, some coins “sank” under the baseboards and rolled into the cracks, perhaps in order to wait for the treasure hunter in your person.

Another Russian tradition is to ensure the well-being and prosperity of a house when it is founded. To do this, coins were placed under each corner. And the more prosperous the owner of the house was, the higher the value of the banknote. Of course, it’s not always easy to get to the corner, but given that the coined money that went out of circulation was quite large in diameter, and the logs on the corners practically turned into dust over time, it’s quite possible to find such a treasure.

The rubble of a house is also considered an ideal place to look for antiques. Their top layer contains a lot of garbage and rotten iron, but under the rubble there may be objects of very decent size, including clay pots, bottles, knives, axes, and in some cases even weapons. On, you can see that many valuable items were found precisely under the rubble.

The attic space also holds many secrets. In principle, we are also not used to immediately throwing away unnecessary things and tidy them up in some secluded corner. And the attic most often becomes such a corner. Here you can find not only antique items utensils and household items - some people turned the attic into a storage place for quite valuable items. Therefore, it is not surprising to find such finds here as ancient books, mirrors, weapons, coins, chests self made and much, much more.