Chapter 76：Strange find

Baraz, Barno and Fang immediately took up the exploration of the fort. But Dara loved to be alone, so he set about studying the foundations of buildings nearby. There were few of them.

Small stones sticking out of the ground, they protruded from the soil by 30-40 cm. Rooms were clearly visible, there were only 4-5 buildings. Each building had 3-4 rooms and a large yard. Dara began ringing the foundation. There were no signals of non-ferrous metals. Not always find something?

Having called the first, second, third at home, Dara found nothing, absolutely nothing. On the fourth foundation there was a squeak at 44. Dara dug up at a depth of 50 cm, which was given to him with difficulty, just a brass button, without a picture and without an eye.

The fifth foundation gave only one coin of the early second empire, copper, 2 cents of the first empire of 1898, also copper, while preserving the lousy one. These coins did not cost anything. And the third was a coin of 1923 goals, a silver wash of 900 samples - of the early second empire. Such a coin cost only $ 3 in the catalog.

This is a reality, each time going out in search of treasures, not every time you can get at least something of value. Since the locals from the beginning of the Nativity of Christ, they were periodically looting mounds and old fortresses. With the advent of more modern technology, naturally they began to use it, and the number of treasures was reduced. But interestingly, the treasures still have quite a lot of hidden underground.

I am sure they are even in your city, only you were looking badly or not at all. So said Dara, a Russian local historian. In cities, there are even more treasures than in the steppe, for example. And the treasures are right next to you. Every day you pass by them and just don't notice them. They can be in basements, in the walls of old buildings, in parks, under asphalt roads. In old wells, attics of buildings. Sometimes you don't even imagine that walking along the city streets, below you, at an altitude of some 5-6 meters, is an underground gallery, a secret passage.

For example, you Dara knew that from the Madrasah built in the 15th century an underground passage was laid 3.5 km to the covered market. And in the underground passage were discovered jugs with silver coins of the 17-18th centuries, weapons, sabers and spears, arrows, old books in Arabic?

This became known in the 70s, when they decided to dig an underground passage between the streets, the excavator failed in such a gallery, unfortunately the driver died. After the city authorities examined only one direction of this move, they decided to simply block other entrances. They were covered with earth.

But when they gave me land in a ravine within the old Russian city, so that I could build my house there, I discovered a treasure when digging the foundation! During the period of colonization, there were summer cottages for the Foicers of three regiments - sappers, artillerymen and infantry.

So I discovered there - you won't believe a bucket of silver coins, usually the officers didn't have such a good thing, since the time was already from the time of the First World War, then silver and gold stopped working. Only paper money, and there was not much trust in them. The coins in the bucket were 1914-1915. Silver 10-15-20 cents. But the coins were not the most valuable in this treasure ... the most valuable was porcelain with monograms. Imperial forfor of his Imperial Velichist Nicholas 1. How did he get to Small-An hard to imagine ?! There were 24 plates in total. At the auction, for each plate it was possible to earn 50-70 dollars. But then I was right, ideological, and all went to the museum! I refused a reward of 25 percent of what I found at the expense of the Palace of Pioneers!

Well, all right, once in a life I found a treasure, said the old local historian, of course there was no second time!

Well, Dara remembered this story, he hoped for such luck, but he believed that luck would accompany him several times! As the Russians say there - for one beaten, they give two unbeaten. With such a grandfather as Firuz-Mirzo, who condemned them to an honest vow of poverty, Dara was sure that somewhere around the horizon there would be a great deal. But unlike other people, he thought that happiness is a lot of money!

But today, luck did not smile at him. Returning to the car, suddenly the Dara heard a good ping, on the metal detector the number showed 43! Like copper!

Dara feverishly started digging, and indeed he found the copper! But it was not a coin, but a big button. With the image of some queen. The button was weird. Too thick for a button and her weight was some heavier than it should have been ?!

What is this weird button?