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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3163225, member: 44316&quot;]The Wikipedia article on the hoard:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_Gold_Hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_Gold_Hoard" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_Gold_Hoard</a></p><p><br /></p><p>says, &quot;An amateur archaeologist, Erich Eixner went back to the excavation site at night and found the larger part of the bronze cauldron, containing 560 coins and an additional lump of 1500 coins, using his metal detector. He informed the authorities of his discovery and received about 20,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark" rel="nofollow">DM</a>, a fraction of the estimated worth.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>2000 gold aurei, some rare and many in nice shape, might be worth what, well upwards of $2,000,000 (at $1000 each, which is low)? In 1993 there was about 1.7 DM to the dollar, so 20,000 DM was about $12,000 at the time. So, the generous government gave the finder about 1/2 of 1 percent of their value. That is not a great incentive to turn them in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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