[Jane Long]

One day he was running his detector in the neighbor’s yard and found a bag of double-eagle gold coins in an old cistern....

....Now his father doesn’t know what to do with them since he can’t explain where they came from without losing them.

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Um, can he not give them to the NEIGHBOR whose yard he found them in?? Or, to a relative of that neighbor?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My point was burying your gold is probably not going to work out well for you.