One of the largest find of the last century was of the Reva Devnia hoard in I had this e-mail and wanted share it -hopefully it works.
@Blake Davis - this pdf looks like it deserves more context - do you believe it to be genuine? What the email claims: - The writer lives near Devnya and, as a teenager, traded an “old man” a gun for 386 Roman coins. - That man’s father allegedly drove the lorry transporting the hoard to Varna; on the way, he and a policeman hid coins (two police hats full) and later took them home. - Multiple “old men” showed the writer the findspot, saying the hoard was in two ceramic containers (a large and a small pot); ~8–10 workers broke the large pot and villagers grabbed coins before the authorities arrived 1–2 hours later. - Police later recovered ~70% of the hoard by visiting houses and “repressing” locals; some coins remained hidden (e.g., a family retaining ~700 coins into the 1970s). - A cryptic line suggests in 1934 a policeman “took about 800 denarii.” If authentic, this testimony mainly confirm what is already assumed: the RD publication is immense but incomplete, and the missing fraction are not be random. In general, multi‑hoard triangulation is required rather than sole reliance on RD for quantitative inferences.
REKA DEVNIA - jeez Thanks! I HAVE to better proof read these and I have to find the time to post this so people can read it - even if I have to re-type it.
