[MestaMachine]

Austria is the only european country that allows you to keep what you find. You turn it in, it’s cleaned, authenticated, and catalogued, and then it’s yours.

[GeronL]

does he only pay income tax if he sells the stuff?

[Godebert]

"Austria is the only european country that allows you to keep what you find. You turn it in, it’s cleaned, authenticated, and catalogued, and then it’s yours."

Guys with metal detectors have been digging this stuff up for years and selling it on ebay. I recently bought a batch of dirty crusty bronze Roman coins from some guy in Slovenia. There are literally tons of Roman treasure still buried across Europe.