A couple were walking their dog and saw a rusty can embedded in the ground, exposed from erosion. They could see a glint of gold inside the busted can.
They investigated and found $27,000 dollars worth of gold coins. That was the face value. The value in gold? Ten million.
Now the government is connecting the find with a gold coin heist at the turn of the century.
Really? Prove it.
Story HERE
I’m sure their intent is not to get half of it but rather ALL of it.
Thank God for media outlet that set the screws in motion.
OK – If you EVER find something like this STFU and cash it in in very small quantities. Also melt it down and mix in some other crap and say nothing.
OR find private collectors – I bet there’s no shortage of them. Who in their right mind lets this kind of thing be publicized, especially within the last five years?
If you find gold, keep it – and keep clam.
I found a knee joint (and other bones) in my garden 25 years ago. As the bones came out, I finally stopped digging because I didn’t want to find a skull. Someone asked me if I reported it to the police. “Of course not.” How am I supposed to know the bones are human?
Whatever happened to possession is 9/10’ths of the law? I’d tell ’em to all go fuck themselves and flee to greener pastures, but then again, I wouldn’t have told them anything in the first place.
You didn’t find that.
Please, Lord, let them be progs!
@Bury Obama
You didn’t steal that!
When will people ever learn to keep their mouths SHUT?
Damn… I missed those in 1933 ? 😮
Or you can do like the Chinese, take a tungsten disc and cover it with gold in a mold of an old coin. Voi’la, $20 million bucks.
These two rubes don’t deserve the money if they’re that stupid. Schmucks.
Isn’t there a statute of limits of seven years for a felony even they actually the crime?
My grandpa (who was into old coins) always told me “If you ever find a sh!t load of old money buried, never tell anyone.”
He knew i liked them, and metal detecting. He was very serious using two examples.
First was someone he knew found a lot of money. He kept his mouth shut about it till he was very late in years. He had known my grandpa for over 50 years. Only explained it to him near the end of his life. When he died, as far as my grandpa knows, only he, and the mans wife every knew.
Second example came from the same man. A man the he knew (whom my grandpa had meet years earlier) had found a large amount of money. The guy basically ran his mouth to anyone who would listen. Eventually someone put all the pieces together, and figured out the money had been stolen from someone pretty important. The man himself had not stole it, nor had anything to do with it. He just happened across the stash.
The first guy kept his mouth shut, and cashed/spent his over many years in different areas of the country. He died a happy man.
The second, lost it all, plus everything he bought with it.
I have yet to find a stash. But if i do, he is the only one I’m telling. He’s been dead since 1995. I miss my fishing buddy 🙂
If the money is returned to the party from which it was stolen, it is NOT taxable, since it was their property to begin with.
Melt it down. Shape it into a plaque that says fuck obama. hahahaha
Seriously, they should have STFU. Some people just have to tell their bidness to anyone who listens.
Either this is deja vu, or there is an epidemic of buried coins being found, or this story was posted here (and a lot of other places) about 4 or 5 days ago. 4th possibility, I an psychic and dreamed this last week.
There is no way the gov’t can prove that THOSE specific coins came from a robbery. They might have the same date, they might be the same denomination, but there is NO WAY to say with 100% accuracy that those coins were from a heist.
A $20 gold coin is a $20 gold coin and there is no way to tell it apart from any other $20 gold coin. There are no serial numbers and no identifying marks. Why do you think governments like paper money? Other than the ability to inflate it into oblivion, you can print serial numbers on the paper and trace it to specific thefts. Not so with gold coins.
With that said, the gov’t will win the case because a judge is a gov’t employee and the gov’t never loses. It’s against the rules.
I read about this a couple of days ago in an SF paper, and I can’t for the life of me understand why these idiots told anybody about this find. All they had to do is go on a road trip once per year and sell off a few handful of coins. They don’t have to say where they came from. Pay taxes on the profits like it was a business. Keep everything above board. And then just live off the coins for the rest of your life. F the damn gubmint. Give them their tax cut, but don’t tell them where you found the coinage. It was so obvious from the start that the gubmint would try to fuck them, and sure enough, that’s what’s happening right now.
Jimmy – you found Jimmy Hoffa
The tax man sucks and that may be why the coins were hidden in the first place. Who knows, some of the treasure may have been spent before the rest was buried.
My Backyard, We were guessing Joaquin Murrieta.
F the Feds. Their new cheer.
@Hambone, that is the ONLY thing that would make this story less sickening! But, no matter who or what they are, if they were stupid enough to handle it the way they did, they were too stupid to keep the money.
Fifteen minutes of fame isn’t cheap!
They should have kept quiet and sold them off privately. People are so darned eager to be media sensations and get their 15 min. of fame, they become idiots.