They shouldn’t have gone public at all, especially in Commiefornia. What’s going to happen is the government will steal it, give them a pittance for a reward and then tax the hell out of the reward.
I would appreciate you or anybody on this forum explaining why two rational people who had the foresight to line up a broker to sell the coins would announce their find before selling them — even announcing the exact number of coins they found that matched the exact number of coins that were stolen.