According to the
preliminary valuation, the treasure is valued at about $15,700.
MOSCOW, November 26.
/TASS/. A cache of coins from the 19th and 20th centuries that was unearthed in
downtown Moscow has become one of the most valuable archaeological discoveries
in the Russian capital this year. According to the preliminary valuation, they
are estimated at about 1 million rubles ($15,700), Moscow City Hall’s website
reported.
"The most
important discovery of the year is a huge treasure of coins dating back to the
era of [Czar] Nicholas II on Kostyansky Lane. In early July, archaeologists
found about 60 coins depicting a face value of 5 and 10 rubles. The money dates
back to the late 19th century - early 20th century," head of the
Department of Moscow’s Cultural Heritage Alexei Yemelyanov was, quoted as
saying in the report.
He specified that the
cache was found in a tin box when clearing the basement of a building that had
previously existed. According to specialists, the coins might have been kept
there since the revolution or the Russian Civil War. Based on preliminary
assessments, the discovery is worth about 1 million rubles. "It is one of
the most valuable caches found in the capital over the last several years,"
the report says.
Earlier, pottery
fragments found on Gogolevsky Boulevard had been ranked as the most ancient
discovery of 2019. Experts dated them back to the Neolithic age of 4,000-3,500
BC. Archeologists also found part of an 18th century figurine carved from a
mammoth tusk in a northern Moscow district, where a manor of the Naryshkin
princes was located. In September, a whole bishop made of bone from a chess set
dating back to the 17th-18th centuries was found on Ostozhenka Street in the
heart of Moscow.
Source: ITAR-TASS
26-11-2019
