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.
