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1 posted on 04/29/2023 9:05:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Does she get to keep them?


2 posted on 04/29/2023 9:09:51 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: SunkenCiv
The girl who made the discovery will receive financial compensation, the amount of which has not been made public.

Tree fiddy?

Seriously, government taking what amounts to a treasure hunter's treasure should richly reward the hunter! I mean, it's not like these lazy sods were out looking for it, or even knew it was there. Without this girl, it would still be in the ground, likely never to be found.

3 posted on 04/29/2023 9:11:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: SunkenCiv

Danes!


5 posted on 04/29/2023 9:14:01 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: SunkenCiv

Unmentioned was the thousand-year-old parking meter they were found in.


10 posted on 04/29/2023 9:25:58 AM PDT by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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To: SunkenCiv

They make it sound like the 1980s were a long time ago. Seems like just yesterday to me.


11 posted on 04/29/2023 9:26:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If I had found them, I would have kept quiet and found a way to secretly sell them off. Either all at once or a little at a time.


12 posted on 04/29/2023 9:30:06 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My guitar wants to kill your mama - Zappa)
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To: SunkenCiv

It always astonishes me that such hordes can lie undiscovered in farm fields. How could it not be hit by a plow in 1,000 years? How could it not be pushed to the surface by the action of the earth in such a long time?

Frost heave pushes rocks and boulders to the surface of farm fields every year and farmers have to clear them. We’ve got some farm fields near us with astonishing windrows of boulders that must be 6 feet high and 10 feet wide at the base. Of course, this is glacial moraine area, so there are LOTS of rocks. But the action is the same.


13 posted on 04/29/2023 9:32:44 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: SunkenCiv

Were they tranny Viking coins? Denmark seems a mecca for mutants.


17 posted on 04/29/2023 9:44:37 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: SunkenCiv; FRiends

So, 500 years ago, someone found this stash, shoveled and SHUT UP, re-buried the stash, and another 500 years later this girl finds it, doesn’t SHUT UP and loses her treasure to Mother Government.

Seems fair. NOT!

If anyone on this Ping List has neglected to watch the series, ‘The Detectorists’ put it on your Bucket List. Totally entertaining!


20 posted on 04/29/2023 9:49:39 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: SunkenCiv
Send them to me!


21 posted on 04/29/2023 9:52:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: SunkenCiv
What a beautiful coin!

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26 posted on 04/29/2023 10:04:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: SunkenCiv

I was confused about what the “metal girl detectors” had to do with the Viking find, but enthusiastic about trying one.

Then I read the headline again.


36 posted on 04/29/2023 10:40:57 AM PDT by x
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To: SunkenCiv

The Detectorists is a really funny British series. Sort of a British Napoleon Dynomite.


42 posted on 04/29/2023 12:20:36 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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