Luck turned on its head

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Inside this issue

1. 10 · A hoard of copper discs
2. 24 · Sudetenland adrenaline, five times over
3. 22 · A silent witness to the Bronze Age

Historical introduction: prices, events and dates refer to the original publication.

Dear readers,

The latest issue of Detektor revue has left the printers and is currently on its way to your letterboxes and your usual retail outlets. And, as always, here’s a little taster to whet your appetite.

As usual, we begin with the ‘Artefact of the Month’ section, to which marekzxr has submitted an artistically crafted brass cartridge case from 1943.

This is followed by the report ‘Luck Turned Upside Down’, in which Tommy White describes the discovery of a gas mask, the contents of which would certainly delight any treasure hunter.

The regular column ‘Střípky’ features interesting finds from Waterloo and from the seabed off the Swedish coast.

‘The Copper Treasure’ is the title of a report by Luděk Schmidtmayer on the discovery of an unusual hoard – consisting solely of six-kreutzer coins of Franz I.

This instalment of our Advice Column is dedicated to one interesting find: a dagger from the forest.

“Do you prefer searching during public holidays?” is the question we put to treasure hunters in our regular ‘Poll’ section. The seventh instalment of Martin Furuglášeo’s numismatic series, The Crown Currency in Bohemia, is devoted to the period of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

A silent witness to the Bronze Age – that is how Tomáš titled his account of the find through which the distant past spoke to him.

On Trutis, luck smiled on the treasure hunter five times in a row – which is why his report is also called ‘Sudeten Adrenaline Five Times Over’.

Pavel Nedvěd’s article ‘The Mysterious Bone from the Uprooted Tree’ recounts all the things that can be found on our treasure-hunting expeditions.

The eighteenth volume of Bedřich Přibila’s List of Czechoslovak Relics takes us, amongst other places, to Studená, Šanov, Trubín and Veltrusy.

Those interested in military technology will certainly welcome another study by the historian Jan Škarka, this time on the subject of the 155mm heavy howitzer model 15.

The Letters page features a poetic recollection by DR Říčka, a reader from the Rožmitál region, which the author has titled ‘When I Was Afraid of the Bear…’

Everything comes to an end, and so, unfortunately, does the popular series on numismatic mysteries as seen through the eyes of researcher Josef Procházka: ‘Unravelling the Enigma of Biatec Coins’.

Those who submitted an entry to the Readers’ Metal Detector Competition will no doubt have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the results, which we are publishing in this issue.

And, of course, there’s also a short story, this time penned by a treasure hunter named Everglade, entitled ‘The Well’.