This is OLD NEWS.....................
Well done, Caltards. Your gubmint is proud of you.
Remembering the movie Goldfinger Bond was informed since gold can be melted down it’s virtually untraceable. I suppose they thought the rare coinage value might have made it worth more. Now it’s value to them might be 0.
Who knew 1900 was considered ancient?
CA will claim it; to help the homeless you know.
So after I found five sacks of gold coins I called the county and sez,” Hey, I found three sacks of gold coins,” and they sez, “Give ‘em here, we’ll call the state. Hullo, State? One of our citizens has found two sacks of gold coins, here they are,” and the State guy sez, “Hullo, Feds? Some guy just found a sack of gold coins...” Next day the papers read “Idaho Man Finds An Antique Coin”.
Corrupt govts won’t even pay a finder’s fee.
The government would claim it was theirs no matter what. Governments lie.
How can the government possibly prove these were stolen? Coins don’t have serial numbers.
Hey I just found $10 million in gold!
Alert the media!
Tell all my friends!
Post it on facebook!
See pictures of the gold on twitter!
Whatever happened to “Finders Keepers, losers weepers”?
Best to keep quiet about such finds. Yeah, you can cash a bit of it in. Or re-melt it into a different coin and sell it.
Loose lips sink ships, particularly when the greedy government tries to get involved.
Was the 10 million the value of the gold melt or the collector’s value of the coins themselves?
I bet they found Seven metal containers.
Find coins.
Check Google to see what they are and where they possibly came from.
Melt them down.
Visit various We Buy Gold Businesses and sell off the Gold at $1800 an ounce.
Enjoy Life.
“the coins may have been stolen from the United States Mint in 1900 and are thus government property”
Yeah, I’m gonna have to cite the precedent of Finders Keepers v. Losers Weepers, 1797 to dispute that.
Some years ago I had a summer job doing demolition and harvesting bricks from old buildings. On one job I found someone’s hoard of coins. They were promptly deposited into the trunk of my car. Some of the hoard I sold over the years. I still have the rest of it - about 85 pounds total.
Never, not once, did I discuss this with any idiot who’d be inclined to call the government.
