The Adventures of Treasure Hunters – 1 season - Chapter 77：Is the strange button Schraubthaler?

It really was a very strange button. Unusually heavy! Did something tell Dara that the button is not as simple as it seems?

It was very difficult to find information in the 20th century, it was necessary to have large libraries with data that were often out of date, books on paper, weighed a lot. It was hard to find information. Since some authors were lazy and did not make a list of geographical names or a list of names for showing pages.

To be more or less literate and comprehensively savvy, I had to read a lot. But not all books could be bought. They had to be “taken out”, searched in the market, as it was not in stores. Money didn’t mean much, you needed “connections and necessary contacts” or “to be a member of some kind of associate in the preparation of paper or scrap metal or acorns”. To become this member, 100-500 kg of paper or iron or acorns must be handed over annually. Where did they get it all. Right on the streets. Now the bums are doing this. For example, 1 kg of paper now costs 11 cents, cardboard 9 cents, 1 kg of plastic from bottles of 25 cents, iron 1 kg 6 cents, 1 kg of acorns costs 14 cents.

And then it was all free, accepted only from legal entities, though not counting the paper. For the fact that a member of the association was active, he was given a badge, certificate. Allowed to buy rare books once a month upon presentation of the badge and certificate of association.

Socialism, what you want, money means less than communication. Deficit. The goods were brought to the store, then the sellers bought part of the goods themselves and hid it under the counter. Their people came, they sold this product to them with a price markup of 20 percent. not very significant people came, they made a 100 percent wrap. But for ordinary people there were no foreign goods.

Therefore, in the country of socialism one could see the difference, some dressed in American American clothes, say, those who had money and connections. Those who dressed in European clothes, it was an elite with their capabilities and special shops just for them.

Ordinary citizens just got clothes in ordinary stores through acquaintances, or bought on the market with a prepayment of 250 percent of the initial cost.

All the rest wore domestic clothing, it was baggy, though from a very high-quality canvas, but not sewn by skilled tailors.

There were also private ateliers, but there were costumes and shirts, for some people “their own” sewed well, and for all “ordinary” people worse.

So getting the right information was difficult. It was difficult to go to libraries or funds, since all non-typical requests fell under the scrutiny of state security employees. Therefore, people preferred to have their libraries at home.

But now it was the 21st century, 2030, gadgets have reached amazing heights, now with a simple android in your hand you could get almost all the information you needed. I just photographed everything, sent it to Google and received the necessary information.

Which is what made Dara interested.

What did he learn – this coin was the so-called type “Schraubtaler” (German: Schraubtaler from schrauben – screw; Schraubmünze, Schraubmedaille) – the name of a composite thaler or coin minted from the 16th century, whose inner walls of the herds were cut and, thus, inside the coin, a closing hollow space was obtained. This space was first filled with engraved images, and then simply became caches. In the modern world, this type of cache has created a new sub-culture of Khobnikel. But this is another story of numismatics. In this jungle, Dara did not want to climb.

In the 20th century, to be a scholar or a walking encyclopedia, a person had to read a lot in different directions. Tens of thousands of books. But still, in some specialties, people of the encyclopedia still sailed. Now in the 21st century, it is enough to have an android or iPhone with an access point to the Internet and the presence of the Internet itself, so that any average student is the most ingenious and knows the latest news in the world of science or the same numismatics.

Dara was surprised at what Schraubthaler was doing with them in Small Ahn, in the center of Asia? This is not Europe ?! It was very amazing! Yes, even in the mountains on the edge of the desert? But then Dara remembered that through these mountains the expeditionary path of the first empire went first under investigation in the so-called scientific study of the region and then direct intervention. When foreign scientists begin to visit a small country often, this is always an occasion to ponder the counterintelligence service. But on the other hand, you can always buy a small country. So this is rather a signal that colonization will begin soon. Nobody wants to lose their independence and sovereignty, but not everyone succeeds.

Small-An, the fate of the losers befell. The Principality fought for three weeks, but how to defeat an industrial country, a small principality with medieval weapons?

The Pistachio Mountains were just convenient for laying the road for the expeditionary forces.

Probably some of the officers or scientists who had researched lost this button, Dara thought.

Okay, I’ll figure it out with the secret of the button then, what’s in it? Gold? Some photograph of a beloved of the 19th century? Map diagram with printed data Small-An? Intelligence report? A gem? Buttons were convex? Or was there nothing? Maybe soil samples? Tablets? No one will know until you open such a button!

For interest, Dara looked at an electronic auction in the catalog for the price of such buttons … the price was very, very, very attractive !!!

It turns out there were such coins and medals! Sometimes in the USA it was possible to meet 25.50 cents silver with miniatures which were cut during the world depression in the USA in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Such coins cost from 800 to 5600 dollars. They rarely come across, but what just does not happen in the world ?!

Dara knew that there are a couple of coins and the second empire 2 cents for example 1925 and 1927, made of copper, they cost collectors about $ 16,000 with good preservation. A gold coin of 10 rubles 900 tests of 1923 so cost about $ 100,000. The last coins of the second empire, too, cost something one coin about 162.55 dollars.

Well, all right, we’ll think and indulge in dreams later, we’ll see if there is anything else in the ground, Dara thought.

He began to drive a metal detector and surprisingly 2 meters from the first spot where the coin was found, he again heard ping and the numbers on the display showed 47!