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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7456418, member: 112"]And the answer is, for the legal part anyway - is when the law says it has to be reported. And if the law does not say it has to be reported, then there is no legal obligation to report it. As for the moral obligation - that's on you, and how you personally define right and wrong. And by the way, that Viking coin you mentioned, any of the things you mentioned could be possible, could be how it happened to get where it was found. But there is another way as well. And according to the laws of probability, it's every bit as likely, and could be argued as being even more likely. Years, maybe even decades previously, a kid, a young boy, or girl but probably a boy, was going through his dad's or his grandfather's collection one day and put the coin in his pocket. Then when he was out playing, he lost it. Over time the coin became buried, only to be found later by the guy detecting. My point of course is that finding a coin here or there, or anywhere, that is capable of being found by a metal detector doesn't really mean much because there any number of ways that coin could have gotten there. And we will never know, can never know, with any degree of certainty how it got there. Now if it's found with other artifacts from the same time period of the coin, maybe that changes. But if the coin is found alone, with no other corroborating evidence, then any literally anything is possible to explain how it got there.[/QUOTE]