Archaeologists have discovered a century-old hoard of gold ruble coins underneath a house in northwestern Russia. The 409 coins were minted during the waning days of the Russian Empire and may be worth more than half a million dollars today.
In 2025, researchers with the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum excavated the foundations of a historic house ahead of new construction in the city of Torzhok, about 260 miles (420 kilometers) southeast of St. Petersburg, according to a March 5 statement.
