All I ever find is old pull tabs and pop bottle tops.............
10% seems cheap. It might never have been found without this woman.
I’d like to know how the person came across the coins. Out walking doesn’t give us any details...and I did READ the article - believe it or not! Wonder why it wasn’t reported as part of the story/find...
Should have been released in drabs and dribbles through a cut out third part direct to dealers. The museum will take them because the government will take it all. She’s lucky they don’t tax her for the amount.
People, if you find something of value keep your mouth shut. The government will either seize it or tax it.
I found a 2 mill Colorado sales tax token from around WW2 on my property and a bunch of zinc coated nails.
10% of what the government says their worth = about $100. What they are actually worth is probably > $1,000,000. It’s the golden crap rule. It’s worth crap until they own it and then it’s golden.
She won’t get Jack $#!+ for finding them, except for the social media bump. There is virtually no way to determine the value since it is all on display and not liquidated. Maybe, just maybe, she could get 10% of the value of the weight of the silver. The coins are the size of dimes 900 dimes equals 75 ounces at 8 dollars an ounce, 600 dollars times one tenth? Jack $#!+.
Does the finder of these treasures ever get to keep what they found?
Owner: I knew I buried that jar around here or was it over there?
More likely the owner was killed violently.
Typical American would sell it all as scrap metal with out considering it as being valuable coins so they can buy more Miller light, LOL