Nazi gold found......

[bigjarofwasps]

 

[Paul R]

Very interesting... I would have wanted to at least keep a couple.  

[Great Dane]

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

[Gerd Becker]

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

[bigjarofwasps]

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

[Graf]

interesting