Posted on 04/29/2023 9:05:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Shit if you are lucky enough to find something like that you would be best off keeping it a complete secret from every other person in the world.
The Detectorists is a really funny British series. Sort of a British Napoleon Dynomite.
I may give it another try. A few years back I found a streaming source for the episodes.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4145777/posts?page=5#5
Same here. My wife still points to an old, runned-down house in the country and says I should search there. I tell her, “they ain’t got no money and if they happened to lose any, they would search until they found their penny.”
I don’t know how it works in Denmark, but in England the government has the option to buy it (mostly if it is unique or museum quality) and they have to pay the finder the full amount that it is worth. This is to promote detectoring in order to find historical stuff.
The person that finds it usually has a deal made with the landowner ahead of time for some percentage of anything that they find. I forget what the typical rate is, but I think it is more in the 20% range, but perhaps 50/50 in some cases?
A viking Scrooge McDuck?
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