Look who found the oldest coin in the world

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The coin found in Sozopol, which caused indescribable delight in historians and archaeologists discovered by a local diver. 

 

Golden bolt of finding glittered in front a local diver only a meter deep on the north coast of Sozopol peninsula. The coin weighs only 0.63 g and it’s 1/24 part of a stater (1 silver stater is equal to 2 drams). It is made of an electron - an alloy of gold and silver, minted in the second half of the seventh century BC, that means the coin is at least 2650 years in the State Lydia. 

The author of the sensational discovery was kept secret, but the team of burgasdream.com revealed his identity. Diver Tentcho Tenev is the best in the region and participated in all underwater archaeological expeditions that were carried out in the Sozopol bay. As a part of them he found some of the most valuable artifacts in sunken area on the peninsula Akin. 

Its sporty, physical and psychological preparation as a diver and a sportsman, as command of several foreign languages, and his rich biography of a player in water sports is a reason to be one of the few Bulgarians who participated in the filming of Hollywood action films "The Expendables 2" and "Expendables 3". 

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