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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1019727, member: 26302&quot;]I thought that privately found coins are personal property of the land owner here, so not seeing how our government steals them Doug. In Britain, found coins are considered the Queens and the government, as a courtesy, agrees to &quot;share&quot; it with the finders. We fought a couple of wars to have different rules.</p><p><br /></p><p>To anyone who does not know, this is a tongue in cheek poke at countries who claim that they &quot;own&quot; any coin that is found or was ever minted there, and want to prohibit importation into the US of any coins from their country before a very arbitrary cutoff date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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