bigjarofwasps Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Very interesting... I would have wanted to at least keep a couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Dane Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Interesting indeed... I wonder how old stuff has to be to be handed over to the state? Different countries, different laws? If I find a gold coin from, say 1985, in my back yard can I keep it? /Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerd Becker Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Well, afaik, in Germany, its property of the german state, if you find something of historical value. If you´re lucky, you get some kind of compensation, which is just a small fraction of the real worth. Gerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjarofwasps Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 18 hours ago, Great Dane said: Interesting indeed... I wonder how old stuff has to be to be handed over to the state? Different countries, different laws? If I find a gold coin from, say 1985, in my back yard can I keep it? /Michael I think if you found one 1985 gold sovereign in your garden, I don`t think there would be an issue, but if you found say 3 Viking gold coins then you should really report it as they will be of historical interest. However, the coins in this case I assume were reported because there were so many of them and they may have been stolen it was only later that there were discovered to have a Nazi connection. But it's not only stuff found buried in the ground, this is a very interesting news report about gold found in a bank... http://osnetdaily.com/2014/12/switzerland-still-holds-half-dutch-gold-looted-nazis/ Here's another news report about these coins, which makes interesting reading..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3162591/Gold-hoard-buried-Nazi-era-just-WW2-Germany.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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