Under the Treasure Trove act, he has to split the money with the landowner. Apparently, it is not taxable income.
What gold coin?
What are you talking about?
It’s been an heirloom in family for over 200 years and you can’t prove otherwise.
At least it’s nought pieces of eight.
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-PJ
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On a side note, ‘Detectorists’ is pretty good Brit half hour comedy about two friends who hunt fields for treasure but mainly find buttons and pull tabs.
I would like to know how many loafs of bread it would buy when it was made. A good way to check inflation.
Found on farmland. Was it a “coinfield”?
Do we have any other metal detectorist / adventurers here?
I go out metal detecting all the time and it’s always so much fun to find hidden “treasure”. Sometimes it’s an old coin or a silver or gold ring, but not very often. Usually I dig up modern change and costume jewelry. I have dug up well over 1,000 coins in the past few years, many silver rings, and a couple gold ones. There’s plenty out there for me, but I don’t expect to find a treasure like the one mentioned in the article, however, it is possible. I want to get out tonight, but it’s too uncomfortably cold.
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I heard he just got married to the widow next store…
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As a 15 year-old working a tobacco field in Connecticut I found a 1735 English penny. The coin had a deep scratch diagonally across it that looked recent. Tobacco fields aren’t plowed deeply so I think the scratch on the coin was caused by the plow that turned it up. The coin had no value since ones in good condition are not that rare and mine was far from good condition. Still, a cool find for a kid.