On Tuesday, August 18, 17th century coins found in the Baldone area were handed over to the National Museum of Latvian History (LNVM). August Gerdt, the finder of the deposit, came across the coins by accident while walking through the parents’ land with a metal detector. After contacting the Society of Archaeologists, a joint deposit of about 300 coins was found.
277 historical coins occupy only a small part of an ordinary shoe box. After a bit of mulching from the television cameras, August fearfully puts the valuable gain at the disposal of the experts of the Numismatics Department of the LNVM, in exchange for receiving a letter of commendation from the representatives of the Latvian Archaeological Society and the opportunity to visit the museum free of charge.
As Anda Ozoliņa, the head of the Numismatics Department of the LNVM, explained – the coins were minted abroad, but they were also in circulation here, as a result of which it is possible to study the circulation of money in Latvia and clarify various historical evidence.
Augusts GerdtsLatvian Radio
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“Working from home, there was more time to walk with the dog and find this deposit in the former swamp. It was a little difficult to understand all this and put it together, but, yes, there was definitely excitement, but at the same time there was a great sense of responsibility. – as if not as a very historical object: as far as I know, other people have been walking with metal detectors for a very long time, and no one has found anything close to it, so I don’t think I have a better chance of finding anything similar in the near future, or even during his lifetime, “admitted the deposit finder.
Archaeologists estimate that, given the date of the coins in the deposit, it was probably hidden by a moderately wealthy resident at the beginning of the Great Northern War, around 1700.
Ozolina explained that it seems that the restoration of coins will require a lot of restorers’ work, but the event is unique, because rarely does an individual distribute a find to collectors, but entrust it to a museum.
Anda Ozolina, Head of the Numismatics Department of the Latvian National Museum of HistoryKristaps Feldmanis
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“The museum has a rather unique case, a rare offer. From what is said, there are dallers from the connected provinces of Spain, the Netherlands and the Netherlands. Researchers will still have to work on those cash coins. First of all, for the restorers to make them visible, because, as you can see from the pictures, they are still very foggy and covered with dirt, ”says Anda Ozoliņa.
“The unique thing is that this find goes to the museum, that a person has voluntarily divorced it, in a very correct way, communicating it to the cultural heritage management and through it this find is not distributed to collectors, does not go to the online store, but goes to the Latvian History Museum. There may be some extremely rare specimens among them, but for the time being, it seems that they will be typical of our territory at that time, and perhaps the most important thing is that their research can make a greater contribution to the development of science and history than perhaps material benefit to the finder of these coins. “
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