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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EdS, post: 1419932, member: 36938&quot;]Could we stop the inuendo of calling &quot;some&quot; folks here somehow dishonest because they dont automatically agree with your particular view?</p><p><br /></p><p>What schoolyard bully buries 8 rolls of quarters in a zip loc bag?</p><p><br /></p><p>And if we want to get legal... someone who buries their property on public lands is in essence abandoning it. In my state, you can purchase county wide permits to search public lands for coins &amp; such. If I found a hoard on public land, with no identifier, it&#039;s legally mine.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Doing the right thing requires a few small pieces to be in place to &quot;make sense&quot;. If a name.. a drivers license number... or other some such identifier was on the coin rolls, by all means, look up the person. If it was a private property situation, doing the right thing means contacting the owner of the property. I didn&#039;t see anyone commenting on this thread that was saying anything remotely dishonest. We weren&#039;t dicussing a lost wallet.. a lost bank bag.. a lost deposit bag... but a coin hoard that could have been burried for many reasons.. least of all theft. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just didn&#039;t agree to automatically assume its a case of stolen property. In metal detecting circles, this sort of thing is almost common place. Folks that came up during the depression hoarded their silver coins, and in many cases burried them. Finding hoards, caches, ect... is something that happens often actually. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And if we all want to be honest.... if you have ever bought anything at a flea market.. a show (gun show.. coin show), at a pawn shop.. a garage sale... from Flea-bay... ect.. ect... then there is a chance you bought stolen property. Its a sad fact that in our particular collecting circles... our property is easy to sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>And about honesty, moral codes, ect... If, and when original owners can be found, I return property. I&#039;ve spent my time, and looked up.. found.. and paid shipping to return rings to owners who lost them on various beaches (via metal detecting).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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