Posted on 02/22/2014 10:07:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
Did a hole in your own backyard and tell them you found it there.
about $1.5 Million
Not lightly do the leaves of Lorien fall.
That doesn't seem like it would matter either. It's a shame, but the only way to have kept it would be to melt it.
A prepper 1,500 years ago hid his gold in the ground. What goes ‘round...
It’s not illegal to search with a metal detector, but it’s against the law to find something with it.
I understand now.
No picking up lost change I guess.
WOW! I’d have to think long and hard before I turned that in!
“”The looter rendered up [the pieces] himself”
Translation
“The non-degreed, amateur rendered up [the pieces] himself”
Apparently you can get a ticket for even using a metal detector. Not any more illegal to find something, but illegal to take it away.
"Archaeologists say the thousands of amateur treasure hunters armed with metal detectors are a nuisance and pose a serious danger to historical artifacts"....Archaeologists are unhappy...BOO HOO......they won't dig but get mad if someone does...
In Germany, It is illegal to find an archaeologist by using a mental detector.
Btt
Exactly. They should go lightly and compensate him more than the value in bullion lest other discoveries get melted without ever hearing of them.
Over there they still claim to own everything, even if buried in your backyard.
Stolen from whom?
Oh, I see: The treasure hunter initially kept his discovery secret and is thought to have sold off part of it on the black market, but it was seized by the authorities when it came to their attention.. Everything belongs to the "authorities" even if they had nothing to do with finding it (or inventing it, or building it, or operating it...)
“Archaeologists say the thousands of amateur treasure hunters armed with metal detectors are a nuisance and pose a serious danger to historical artifacts. “
In their mind its better that they remain buried forever, and are probably never discovered. Petty jealousy is all it is.
Whatever agency this is, it likely has the same tread as our IRS. I'd try and dispose of it anonymously, even though that is largely impossible. You would have to destroy it (the art)to keep it (the gold). Lousy position to find yourself.
Europe doesn’t quite have the private property rights of America.
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