Garden Find

The finders are remaining anonymous and the find's location is not being released to discourage false claims.

What would you do if you found it ?

Keep it

Turn it in

Melt it

Sell it

I dont know

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ble-eagle-hoard-dug-up-in-a-hackney-garden.do

 

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If it was in my garden it would be on my land so I would keep one or two of the best ones, LOL

If it is declared treasure and it goes to the crown then the finders get the market value tax free.

 

Finders keepers. What the governments don't won't hurt them...

 

You usually think of this before making it public , no ? I would say it's too late but one can always run to South America.

 

If I found that in MY garden on MY property, I would want it to become part of MY collection. Of course, I may share with the local historical society and put some under glass for all to see. TC

 

Yea, why would anyone give their finds back to the officials so they can line their own pockets. In my eyes this guy screwed up big time...

 

He complied with the law. Some people feel it necessary to do that. He'll probably wind up keeping the find, since it has no historical significance. Even if the government decides to claim it, he'll get fair market value. And have a clean conscience.

 

I would of kept my MOUTH shut and pieced it out slowly. Keeping what I wanted of course.

 

Anarchist.

 

I would have kept them. Not too often that much gold lands in your lap. lol

P.S. Is anyone else cringing about the spade hitting them? That gave me cold chills.....

 

If I found a gold stash on my property, the very last thing that I would do is tell the government......... If they found out some how and actually cared, I would just claim it was mine and there would be no proof otherwise........ Unless the stash was worth hundreds of millions so it was obvious I could not afford to buy it all in which case I would calmly state, "It's been in the family for years"!

 

America doesn't have Treasure Trove rules.

 

Since someone obviously blabbed all over the news about the find, the options are now limited as to what the Government wants to do with it. The finders are completely out of the picture and will get only what the governing body deems.

Personally, I may have secured the finding secretly until I had sought legal advice. But once the cat's out of the bag, it's "game over".

Burying gold, which is what hoarders and survivalists still do has risk. I think whoever buried it, likely was unable to recover it. Since the coins were not in a piece of PVC pipe, I think it was buried before or during WWI. Just a guess.

 

I know that image quite well. It's from one of my re-occurring dreams that I've had.

The closest I've come to recovering a cache is when I dug up a large mason jar that was buried at the edge of a property I had years ago. Instead of it being filled with coins it was stuffed full of "thousand year old" eggs buried and forgotten by a previous resident. A disgusting mess!

 

x2 ^

 

I have seen a treasure hunter trolling for rings and jewelry at a public swimming area. He told me he earns for than $50 an hour using his metal detector and other equiptment. He doesn't have any moral obligation to turn the items into "lost and found", unless someone had posted signs indicating he/she had lost an item of great value in which case they probably would have hired someone to search for it.

In the case of a hoard like this, a story which is covered in Coin World today, a good faith effort should be made to see what the source of the coins were and to find the family, because there are a number of circumstances where it would be morally wrong to take what is not yours. "Finder's keepers" is a child's saying, the law has developed for good reasons so that fraud is minimized.

 

It would be impossible for me to keep my mouth shut when I dug those up. I would photo and date them and hope like heck the law would be on my side. But I must admitt keeping a few of the rarest would be very tempting. lol

 

That is my thought. buried in 1914 when everyone new the Germans would cross the Channel anytime now.

 

There was never a danger the Germans would invade England in World War I; England's navy combined with that of France ruled the waves no matter where those waves were. My guess is it was the treasure of a man who had his reasons to keep it hidden, and whatever those reasons were died with him.

 

actually not.

A fair market value has to be determined if the government wishes to purchase the find.
They cannot just 'make up a value'.

And the Brits have been very fair in valuing the treasure trove that they have purchased.