Hypothetical question re: gold coins found on Federal land

[Gare]

In some of the state parks around me you are allowed to dig in MOWED GRASS's ONLY !!

 

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[sprailroad]

Like I said it will prompt disagreement. I’ve lost something valuable that someone immediately took for their own. I reported it stolen as I was instructed to do by the police and it was rightfully returned to me 2 years later.

TIME MATTERS. I don’t know much about confederate coins other than they are likely very valuable. Don’t know if the US government would lay claim the same they would have immediately after the conclusion of the war.

So you LOST something, and the police told you to lie to the police by claiming it was stolen?

 

[sprailroad]

Well...Don't ask, don't tell type of thing? OR, how about a melt value? Heat purifies all.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

So you LOST something, and the police told you to lie to the police by claiming it was stolen?

Correct. If it doesn’t belong to you, you need to keep your hands off it.

If you’re being a good citizen and picked it up to prevent something from being stolen, you are to turn it into the local police (lost and found) and they will hold it for a defined period of time before returning it to the finder as their new property.

Kind of makes sense to me. If you were walking behind me in the supermarket and an envelope of cash fell out of my pocket onto the floor. You have two choices - one involves being a thief.

With that said, if I find a wrench along the road, I don’t feel like a thief picking it for my own.

 

[Limitool]

Correct. If it doesn’t belong to you, you need to keep your hands off it.

If you’re being a good citizen and picked it up to prevent something from being stolen, you are to turn it into the local police (lost and found) and they will hold it for a defined period of time before returning it to the finder as their new property.

Kind of makes sense to me. If you were walking behind me in the supermarket and an envelope of cash fell out of my pocket onto the floor. You have two choices - one involves being a thief.

With that said, if I find a wrench along the road, I don’t feel like a thief picking it for my own.

I too sir would pick up the envelope of cash and return it to you. I also would also pick up the wrench and outright keep it as my own. I would also pick up leather bags hidden for 150+ years in the wilderness with coins and put next to the wrench.

 

[SD51]

First, the only “confederate “ double eagles were the 1861-O strikes. Mint records show only 17,000 struck. Only a portion of those were struck after the confederates took over the mint. The confederates sent about every dime they had to England to buy war matériels. Digging on most Fed land is prohibited. You can legally dig in a National Forest. I think BLM land is legal but I’m not positive. After you found them, you would have to pay income taxes on the actual value of the coins, not just face value. Payment must be made in the same yr they were found. That’s if you do it the legal way.

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