In May 2025, the news dispersed on VKontakte: in Tomsk, the teenager allegedly found the treasure and carried it to the pawnshop, but there he was paid much less than the real cost of the find. We checked the authenticity of such messages.
Viral posts about the found treasure are slightly different from each other. For example, in a public "Latest news”(3 million views at the time of writing this analysis) The story is presented as follows:“ The Tomsk schoolboy accidentally gave the condition of the pawnshop. During a walk through the forest, a student from Tomsk found a dilapidated box with rare coins of tsarist Russia. Together with his friend, he decided to quickly exchange it for money and received 100,000 rubles in a pawnshop. When the parents saw the photographs of the find, it became clear that the coins were much more. But when the teenager returned after them, it turned out that the pawnshop had already closed forever. ” Some records specify that coins found in the forest ravine, either in ditch, were gold And each of them supposedly It was worth it Hundreds of thousands of rubles. Somewhere Given And the alleged commentary of the teenager: "I thought we just found beautiful coins." Such posts appeared in public "Information field"(373,000 views),"Club of anonymous diggers. Metalopois"(268 000),"How is it possible?"(201 000)," Telegram "(twice: 132 000 And 80 000) and others. In all of them, two pictures of coins with the image of Nicholas II are given.
To begin with, it was “verified” to determine the source of this news - it was not a note in the Tomsk media and not a record in the social networks of the student. The earliest post with a message about how the teenager found coins, appeared on May 3 at 21:37 Moscow time in public "Obi"(1.8 million views) on VKontakte. In our analysis, this community with 690,000 subscribers is already three times It was mentioned As the primary source of misinformation about similar finds that allegedly enriched residents of different regions of Russia. It was there that they first wrote about Mushroom pickest From Kamchatka, who found a jug in the forest with gold coins of the 18th century, oh teenager From Krasnodar, who discovered millennial shells with large black pearls on the beach, and about resident Taganrog, who for $ 9,000 bought a rare car in the USA and, after repairing $ 6,000, sold this car for $ 80,000.
The next step was to check the pictures cited in the above posts. It turned out that the first photo was taken in Moscow in early July 2019. Then Baza It wrotethat they found a treasure on the construction site in the city center - and not workers, but an archaeologist Konstantin Kretininthat examines construction facilities. According to press release The capital's city hall, a set of coins from the yellow metal of the times of Nicholas II was in a tin box, which was preserved only partially. “How many of them are accurately difficult to say - most likely, about 60 pieces (coins were spaced, so archaeologists failed to establish their exact number on the spot. - Approx. Ed.) The face value is also visible - 5 and 10 rubles. Money dates the border of the 19th and 20th centuries. Probably, the owner hid them in the basement during the revolution or civil war. This treasure has become one of the largest in Moscow over the past few years, ”said Alexei Emelyanov, head of the Moscow Cultural Heritage Department. According to preliminary estimates specialists, the cost of the treasure could make up more than 1 million rubles. (On average approximately 10,000 - 30,000 rubles. for a coin).
Later, head of the sector of the "Archeology" department of the Moscow Museum, Ekaterina Saint She said RIA Novosti that coins will be sent to a special institution for the formation of the Gosfond Dragmetalls (GOFP) under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. “When they find such a treasure, the first thing archaeologists do is call the police, because it is a precious metal. If we find gold, we can’t just take it and transfer it to some museum, since [this] is associated with many procedures: the treasure is sent to the Government, and there, so that the museum can take for storage, it must have a special storage fund of precious metals, ”Svyatitskaya explained.
The second photo was taken a few months later. At the end of October 2019 "Kursk Internet Television" reportedthat the expedition of the Research Institute of Archeology of the South-East of Rus' of the Kursk State University discovered during excavations in the city center the treasure of the late XIX-early XX centuries. “The treasure consists of 119 gold coins. They were hidden near the foundation of the brick house erected in the 19th century, ”the city administration said. It was clarified that this was already the second similar find of the Kursk archaeologists in four years, the last time the treasure consisted of silver coins of the 17th century. Local media Reportedthat after the completion of the field stage of excavations and all the necessary scientific research, gold coins, together with other finds, will be transferred to the State Museum Fund.
Thus, the news about how a schoolboy from Tomsk found ancient moments, and then he was deceived by an employee of a pawnshop, is another falsification of the Obi public in VKontakte. At the same time in Description There is no unequivocal indication that invented news is published there: “Author's entertainment blog with original content and unique style, founded more than 15 years ago.” At the time of publication of this analysis only one Of the four posts of “Ob”, which have already been refuted “verified”, received a special dick of possible misinformation from the platform.
Photo on the cover: Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow / 46TV
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