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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 26355195, member: 99456&quot;][USER=91820]@Blake Davis[/USER] - this pdf looks like it deserves more context - do you believe it to be genuine?</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What the email claims: </b></p><p>- The writer lives near Devnya and, as a teenager, traded an “old man” a gun for 386 Roman coins.</p><p>- 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.</p><p>- 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.</p><p>- 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).</p><p>- A cryptic line suggests in 1934 a policeman “took about 800 denarii.”</p><p><br /></p><p>If authentic, this testimony mainly confirm what is already assumed: <a href="https://www.openstarts.units.it/server/api/core/bitstreams/6eb2134c-911d-42d5-98d5-5f3b20023c3d/content" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.openstarts.units.it/server/api/core/bitstreams/6eb2134c-911d-42d5-98d5-5f3b20023c3d/content" rel="nofollow">the RD publication is immense but incomplete</a>, and the missing fraction are not be random.&nbsp; In general, multi‑hoard triangulation is required rather than sole reliance on RD for quantitative inferences.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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