What happened to the couple that found coffee cans of old coins on their own property worth over a million $ in California not too long ago? They lawyered up but they came public with that story which they should have kept quiet and sold the coins.
“Wouldn’t that be considered theft?”
Recently, a family discovered they’d inherited a number of 1930’s gold coins. They asked the mint to authenticate them and the government seized them all based on a law from the 1930’s that said gold ownership was illegal.
The government is a bunch of thieves with nice suits and official credentials. But thieves nonetheless.