Chapter 69：Interesting finds

It was a platform for ... it was a market, a spontaneous market in the steppe, which met twice on Thursday and Friday, or Saturday and Sunday.

Farmers, traders, acrobats, folk healers, artisans, highlanders, cattle breeders came from all the surrounding villages and some small towns of Small An, and sold their simple products.

Nothing special, rough saddles made of wood and leather, fruits and berries, vegetables, flour, salt, sugar, meat, wool, rough carpets, metal shovels, shovel cuttings. Chinese tinsel, less often goods from the capital of Small-An, at higher prices than in the capital itself. Sometimes goods, as in the old days, were exchanged for products.

Earlier in the time of the second empire, bazaars were more filled with things and diverse products, as neighbors from Big An, the Great Steppe, the trading city of Keder, came. But now tight borders and high customs duties kept neighbors. And frankly, there was nothing to buy. Since neighboring countries became richer, the average salary there was $ 800-1,000 in the province and $ 2,000-4,000 in the capitals.

All this adversely affected the overall economic situation in Small-An.

However, traders and buyers often lost money at such sites. If Dara could find a really old market square, then he would certainly be able to get a handful of gold and three handfuls of silver, not to mention a bucket of copper.

But it was a modern marketplace, which was from the age of 50-60. Therefore, Dara could only rely on the fact that he might come across a rare coin of the second empire.

Dara began to check, drive a coil on this site. Immediately went a lot of signals - 44, 43, 88, 99, 23, 18, 76 ...

Iron ... and non-ferrous metals, Dara had to switch the frequency to non-ferrous metals.

He began to dig out the places of signals and yes it was coins of the late second empire, copper with an alloy of tin, copper and zinc, copper and aluminum, a little silver from the two found anniversary Tummans. Coins were not rare, but for them he could have been able to gain $ 8-9.

What about iron? What was it? To the surprise of Dara, it was the first money of independent Small-An, they went out of circulation like 20 years ago. As then, as now, the coins in Small-An were made of steel. Once in the water, they immediately rusted. A small galvanic coating of chromium came off with intensive use after 2 years.

Coins quickly depreciated ... so they were often tied with duct tape, with each other, at 10 or 100 cents, such columns were obtained. This is exactly what they phoned, gave signals of iron. The adhesive tape was mixed with oxides and rust, so it was practically impossible to separate the coins. Just trash.

Moreover, Dara had a whole box of coins of the second empire and the early Small-An, it is a pity to throw out, but they did not represent any value.

Two good signals are 88 and 99. It was definitely gold and silver. It seemed Dara.

And indeed, one signal 99 turned out to be a female ring. Weighty, without stone. It can be seen that smelted from native gold. A bolt weighing 25 grams. The first nouveau riche loved to wear such bolts in the 90s of the 20th century.

The second signal was 88, it turned out to be a silver cigarette case from World War II with a German eagle and the symbol of the SS ... Everything for Germany ...