Son's New MD Find

I have no idea if my son and his friend had a permit, but I will ask. My son said that in Wallonia (Southern Belgium) it is illegal, but in Flanders (Northern Belgium) and the Netherlands it is legal. I guess I need to get it all straight before I go and find myself under arrest somewhere.

 

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You don't want to end up in a notorious Belgian prison eating waffles for the next 5 years!

 

Heaven forbid!

 

That is a righteous looking coin! Nice find!

 

Great coin and an excellent find. I'm tempted to buy a MD and see if I can find any ancient coins in my backyard.

 

The one thing to be concerned about with detecting in Belgium is the huge amount of ordnance left over from two world wars, much of it unstable. Farmers regularly dig up everything from hand grenades to full sized shells and the Belgium military has a full time team of bomb disposal specialists dealing with it. I would definitely exercise caution.
In any event what a superb find and now it has been shared by a lot of admirers and that's a good thing in my books.

 

In the UK metal detectorists are encouraged by the Portable Antiquities Scheme administered by the British Museum and National Museum of Wales and this has resulted in some spectacular finds being reported and sites being excavated by the museum in respect of all other aspects of the site not just coins and artefacts. It encourages positive openness between archaeologists and amateur detectorists and everyone benefits.
Here is a link for anyone interested.https://finds.org.uk/

 

only with a permit Galba.
maybe not even in 2015

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20...1dd-41eb-8eac-05bf64589d4f&M_BT=1506720408889

 

The UK have the right idea!

More countries should do it this way.

John

 

Beautiful find by your son, Bing. A scarce type too!
Need to get those green spots treated though...I found a beautiful sestertius of MA once, and due to carelessness, it turned to green powder at the border..

Please, just to reinforce what others have said, detecting is strictly illegal in Germany, absolut verboten for amateurs/hobby detectorists (unless an approval is obtained after special 'training' with the Denkmalschutzamt- very difficult). Wouldn't want him getting into trouble here. The Germans 'verstehen kein Spass' with regard to this.

 

Great MD hunting ! The wording looks a bit like Helvetia (Switzerland), but is probably saying something entirely different. Gangelt is near the border with the Netherlands - could the coins be Dutch ? Worth looking up the history of Gangelt, including the Second World War. - As for the legal matters - I haven't got a clue.

 

That's news to me. I detected all over Bavaria from 1974-1977 and the only problem that I ran into was the rule that anything more than 5 DM had to be turned over to the police. When I tried to deposit coins in the bank I had troubles until a friend wrote in German on a card. "I found these coins individually with a metal detector. They were not all together in a container." After they saw that there were no problems. I even got to search the drainage ditch alongside a roman villa that was marked on the map.

 

I Skyped with my son this afternoon. He is very excited. On Saturday, when he found the items, he borrowed a friends MD. He has since ordered one for himself. We spoke about the laws and permit requirements which he seems to understand; however, he said he can't understand the logic behind not allowing amateur MDing. He said if it wasn't for him and his friend, the items would still be laying in the field undetected and lost to yet more generations. I completely agree and I like the British laws regarding amateur MDing.

Also, he was telling me the land from which they found these items is owned by his friend's landlord. It is field that the owner uses every year for varying crops. How many times has this field been plowed and harvested in the past 2000 years? And how many more times in the future would these coins lay hidden?

Regardless, I encouraged my son not to break any laws, as I will not either.

 

Its a great hobby

 

http://www.metal-detecting.de/misc/germanmetaldetectinglaws/

 

https://ecmd.eu/metal-detecting-in-europe-belgium-case-for-flanders/

 

Fantastic find! Have a great trip

 

Neat find