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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8063215, member: 100459&quot;]I don&#039;t know what the general feeling is about people finding coins and feel that they have to tell someone about the find.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I am a dishonest person, but there are so many items, buildings, etc. that have a great many items that have been unearthed.&nbsp; They write a paper about it for some journal and it is given/taken by a museum and MAY be put in a case with a little piece of paper telling about the item.&nbsp; After a while, the item is no longer interesting, so they put it in a box, catalog it, and then lock it away.&nbsp; I have seen so many articles on things that are found and you never hear about it again.&nbsp; I know that many countries have laws about turning &quot;finds&quot; over to some authority.&nbsp; Unless I was surrounded by people, if I found a coin, I would carefully wait until no one is looking, slip the item in my pocket.&nbsp; I, too, would research the item and write a note about it and then put it in my safe and tell no one.&nbsp; I read about a man that had found something of value.&nbsp; He hid the item with his other coin collection.&nbsp; Eventually, he told his wife what he had found.&nbsp; His wife didn&#039;t think it was that important, so one day, she told some friends about it.&nbsp; I few days later, the police knocked on his door and confiscated the item and took him to jail.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know about you, but these stories intrigue me.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t find anything like what I just wrote, so I made up the above story.&nbsp; The purpose is to be very careful about who and what you tell someone, especially family.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have to be an item you found, it may be a coin you bought.&nbsp; During WW II, the had a motto.. &quot;Loose Lips Sink Ships.&quot;&nbsp; Protect your hobby, whether it is coins, baseball cards, or stamp.&nbsp; If it has value, someone would try to get it, even your child.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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