Money is essentially falling underfoot. You just need to know where to look and then where to sell. In the USA or Europe, this is easy to do. The infrastructure already exists, there are trading houses, antique shops. Development of the economy.
The Small-An, it never happened. Only a few private collectors - monopolists, who have brought down prices by 10 times. It was possible to take out precious stones, books, coins only by paying a draconian state duty for everything.
Therefore, the treasures found were sold through the black market, and this is always fraught with deception. But everything could be handed over to the state museum for ridiculous money. Some unique items that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars in Small-An in Europe or the United States could hardly be sold for 10-15 dollars.
Nevertheless, the clever Dara sold them to his friend who was engaged in ethnographic tourism. He sold old things along with an export certificate. Dara donated part of the found collection to the newly created Museum of the history of the city. Although it was a gift, the state thus allowed him to pay less property and profit tax. Treasure hunting was more interesting than profitable. But on the other hand, real treasure hunters, like gold diggers, never talked about their income.
They cried that they were barely interrupting from water to crackers. Nevertheless, they bought themselves used cars for a couple of thousand dollars and their money was found in thick wallets. Of course, treasure hunters did not always find gold or jewelry, but once or twice a year they managed to hit the jackpot. Where can you find gold and jewelry in the city? In old houses, courtyards, sewers, abandoned sewers, dry walls, attics, basements.
But there you can find unpleasant neighbors too. Skulls, skeletons, mice, hordes of rats, snakes, cockroaches, mosquitoes, and sometimes homeless people.
Adventure is hard for the amateur. Sometimes in old cities, you can find abandoned underground passages or bomb shelters. There is jewelry in old furniture from the 30-the 60s of the 20th century, they are hidden in sweat drawers or the legs of chairs or tables. Previously, private traders - hairdressers, shoemakers, carpenters, tailors, converted the non-convertible currency of the second northern empire into gold coins, which were hidden in furniture.
One gold coin was worth between $ 260 and $ 400. Usually, they hid them in furniture legs from 15 to 20 coins. They did not tell anyone their relatives about their treasures. Sometimes they left suddenly.
He didn't have time to tell anyone about the hiding places. Their young relatives did not want to understand the junk as they believed and threw them into a landfill or sold them for cheap at a flea market. The treasure after finding it by accident. These old people also liked to hide their treasures in the hollow tubes of bicycles, in the air ducts of their apartments.