Why didn’t they keep their mouths shut? They could had individual coins appraised and certified then sold at numismatics conventions and the like for cash.
Look at me, look at me!
yep, selling them slowly and declaring the sales a little each year would have reduced the taxes owed considerably. But spouting off about the find allows the leaches in gub'ment to enforce all sorts of arcane rules to plunder the wealth for the public slush fund err I mean coffers.