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By Tim Newcomb
Tucked under the stone foundation of a wooden house along the historic Torzhok district in Russia’s Tver Oblast, archaeologists discovered a broken clay pot from over 100 years ago. But it wasn’t the pot that held intrigue for the researchers—it was the 409 gold coins spilling from it.
The brown-yellow glazed clay “kandyushka” jar—identified by its narrow neck and rounded handle and situated beneath the stone—still held some coins, but the rest were spread around. The small pot was likely tucked away for safe keeping around 1917, during the upheaval of the Russian Revolution.
Discovered by the Russian Academy of Sciences roughly 135 miles northwest of Moscow, as reported by Arkeonews, experts call it one of the largest collections of gold coins from the late Russian Empire ever found.
Read the full article on Popular Mechanics:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70726178/scientists-found-a-broken-clay-potwith-409-gold-coins-inside/
