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[Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 3:05 pm
by Hardelli

A hobbyist unearthed 4.5 kilos of Late Iron Age coins in Sysmä, marking the biggest find in Finland to date.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20244974

More pictures on the Finnish language article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20244887


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 3:42 am
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Whoah!

How I dream of making a similar find myself one day :D


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 7:29 am
by Hardelli
Avatar wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 3:42 am

Whoah!

How I dream of making a similar find myself one day :D

Indeed, I've been dreaming of getting a metal detector for a while now :D

But not because I want to find a gold stash, though that would be fun, but because I just want to use one lol


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 1:42 pm
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Same! :)

I actually knew a guy here whose side gig was looking for old coins around in the fields in Serbia and then he would sell them online.

We have a ton, and he would usually find one or two that are perhaps common, a lot of Roman stuff and earn a bit of money for them.

Nothing spectacular (and legitimacy of that is also a bit questionable) but it just sounded like fun looking for random stuff with the metal detector :D


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 3:29 pm
by Hardelli

Yeah its funny how Roman coins are pretty worthless, unless found in a specific context/setting, and even then the value is not monetary but for historical dating purposes. I had a buddy of mine come from holiday in southern Europe, he excitedly showed me a Roman coin he had bought for "only 50€!" and I had to show him that he could have gone online and bought like 10 of the same coins for 20€ :D


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 5:53 pm
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Poor Roman empire, fell apart and its currency is still worthless even today :D


Re: [Archaeology] Finland: Metal detector enthusiast strikes Viking-era windfall

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 9:00 pm
by Hardelli

I think thats the hyperinflation we were talking about earlier :D