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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1345421, member: 112"]It still kind of leaves a bit open to question. What about the other coin, the $2.5 million one. Ownership of that coin is documented for the past 50 years. And yet it was seized. But the truly troubling part is that Italy, like more than few other countries, claims that any coin found after 1909 is cultural property. So you can have a coin here in the US, with documented, legal ownership for the past 100 years, and they can seize it and take it away from you, with no recompense to you. And all because they claim it was found after 1909. They can't prove that, but they don't have to. All they have to do is claim it. You can either give up and let them keep the coin, or spend 10 times what the coin is worth in legal fees trying to get it back. Sounds like a great idea for the country. So now imagine if the US did the same thing, you're out with your metal detector, on private ground and with permission. You find a $20 gold piece. Then the govt steps in, takes it away, and says thank you very much. And there's nothing you can do about it. Or - you have a coin that has been in your family since WWI and handed down. But one day the govt, shows up and says - hey that's cultural property, we'll take that. And nothing you can do about it. These are the kind of things that are going on. And the US is allowing it to happen. I'm sorry, but that's just not right.[/QUOTE]