Wow
Marcus! To think you can just go out and dig up such coins.
But I think it's not as simple as that. Even though the possibility of such finds would motivate many of us.
Marcus must get up if not every day, most days, regardless of the weather, and travel a greater or lesser distance, decide where to dig-not a simple process.
If I were let loose on the Serbian countryside with no guide or knowledge of the "lay of the land", I'd metal detect for a few hours and then say:
"To hell with this. All that rubbish about finding coins here is just
bull." And then go
home.
It takes a lot more than just "going out" hunting to yield finds.
Research, listening to the locals, knowing if a place is "right" or not, all count.
So does going out on a cold, rainy morning, and finding nothing, but going out again the next day not being discouraged.
In the Serbian countryside there are also individuals who rather than dig coins on their own may decide to target a "successful"
hunter and relieve him of
his finds at gunpoint.
True,
Marcus shows us amazing finds. But he does not just "stroll out in sight of
his house" and find these things. No great profit is without great risk. In one form or another
good things are found with great effort.