Amateur Treasure Hunter Finds Roman Gold Hoard

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[1010RD]

He’d be better off selling the pieces bit by bit every month.

[xone]

All it would take is one of his buyers get into it with the cops, the cops realizing the art, the buyer rolls on the seller to save himself. I got to go with melting it.

[1010RD]

How do you sell unmarked gold ingots? Plus, the value isn’t just the gold itself, but the antiquity. It’s not that hard to sell an antiquity one piece at a time.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2053587.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xaureus+coin+gold&_nkw=aureus+coin+gold&_sacat=0&_from=R40

Sell one a month and you’re doing well. Keep your job, use the money to save and save. Retire in ten years or so and no one’s the wiser. Too much greed ruins the deed.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

[SunkenCiv]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rhineland-Palatinate&ie=UTF-8&ei=-FIJU7G_FYKRrgG26oG4DA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg

[madison10]

Those would have ALL been sewn as decorations on clothing, for me a formal dress. They are uniform enough to look factory manufactured and would not be that detectable.

[xzins]

In Rhineland-Palatinate searching with a metal detector is a minor offence, but taking the find is a criminal matter under property laws. Not telling authorities about the find can lead to a fraud prosecution, while selling it on can end in a charge for dealing in stolen goods.

Sounds like he should have just left it buried. You get punished for finding something.

[xone]

How do you sell unmarked gold ingots? Plus, the value isn’t just the gold itself, but the antiquity.

Gold is testable, probably cost you something, but they sell gold dust all the time to an assayer. I agree on the antiquity value, but once discovered, you'd have little chance of keeping it.

[Altariel]

Blast! All you ask is that your Roman gold hoard remains hidden. Is nothing sacred these days?

[MonsterPiggy]

My dad is sure he is going to find something like this one day with his metal detecting. He is really big into treasure hunting and unearthing hidden historical artifacts.

I swear that every time you talk to him he brings up metal detecting in some way or another. He even recently created a website with a best metal detector list in the hopes of getting more people interested in the hobby, and so more history can be discovered and learned about.

I think he is a bit disappointed that I never really got into it like he is, but sometimes I do find some of the stuff he brings home interesting.

[sneakers]

Apparently, you, like I, have watched that movie waaaayyyyy to many times!

LOL!

[hal ogen]

Museums’ storehouses are full of “antiquities”. Never shown to the public because most museum holdings are in storage for “study”. You’d think these greedy archeologists would have to compensate an individual who finds something...at current value. They enjoy ripping-off the public, don’t they? If you find something, never tell them.

[ABN 505]

[”Europe doesn’t quite have the private property rights of America.”]And we don’t quite have as many as we used to!

[Yollopoliuhqui]

The German “authorities” should offer a healthy percentage of the find to the finder and thus encourage rather than discourage amateur archaeology.

[SunkenCiv]

An amusing vignette from "I, Claudius":

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Organic Panic]

What a great way to encourage people to just dig up these relics and melt them down in to untraceable “scrap” metal. Typical liberal thinking. Farmers will lose there land if the three speckled titmouse is in his fields so he kills everyone pf them to save his farm. Any amatuer will now just keep his mouth shut.