http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110518...VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNhdXN0cmFsaWFwb2w- I'm surprised no one shared this yet. Workers found 400 British gold sovereigns from 1800 buried at a work site in Australia, and now the police are trying to figure out who owns them.
That's an interesting story. So I suppose the question is whether Seafarer John buried them long ago, or if it was John Doe buried them 70 years ago when he was afraid that Mrs. Doe was going to take his fortune. Right? US Law says that something found older than a certain age (50-100 years? Something like that?), is property of the government, technically. So older coins that are metal detected, and also arrowheads and the like (which my grandpa found a number of, but I haven't seen any dug) are property of the state, if they ever came to collect. Maybe Australian law is similar?
I sure hope that for the sake of the poor workers, that they actually only turned over 400 coins because 1600 of them is all that would fit in the crews pockets...
