It reminds me of the Aesop tale of the fox and the crow.
And maybe they could’ve waited till the gold standard returns.
O wants it.
SFS...shovel find and shut up!
If I ever find something like this in my backyard, NOBODY finds out about it.
So instead of $10million less taxes you get $1 million less taxes?
I realize if the government can”prove” the coins stolen the couple may get nothing.
Drive across the country. Stop in at coin shops along the way and sell one at a time.
Hard to prove these are the same coins. . . And the mint would have to prove it. From what I understood, there are different coins in the cache with varying values, all uncirculated. If these were coins from the mint, newly struck coins, they’d all be identical, from the same striking. . . But that was not what was described. I gathered they were more like a varied collection, including at least one that did not have “In God We Trust” struck on it, making it a very rare coin. Odd to have been coins from a mint. . . And be random.
Stupid and stupider could have been multi millionaires but decided to blab about their find. Obama will be happy to take the found gold now. There will be no sharing of their new found wealth.
” But a former SF Mint detective sees it as plausible: “Downstairs, we had vaults where we kept old coins that hadn’t been put into circulation.” PJMedia further digs up a 1906 congressional report that indicates mint clerk W.N.
Dimmick was convicted of the mint theft, but the document doesn’t state whether Dimmick revealed the coins’ location, or if they had been recovered. ABC News notes that if the coins are indeed purloined government property, the couple may owe Uncle Sam more than a heck of a lot in taxes: They may have to turn over the entire haul, and get a finder’s fee in return.”