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So, recently I have gotten very interested in the idea of treasure/relic hunting and plan to soon buy my first metal detector. The thing is where I live the government has the right to cuck you out of 75% of the value of any treasure you find and that is implying it was on my property with mineral rights, metal detecting tax paid and all that shit. If yoi find it anywhere else you aint getting shit and can even be fined for not reporting it. So, implying I have found a quantity of gold coins in a place where I have no right to claim it, could you get away with melting it down, refining it to remove other metals that could identify its origin and selling the gold legally/illegaly. How hard would that be to pull off or would I still have to prove I got the gold legitately?

>> No.15960702

>>15960685
* legitimately

>> No.15960802

>>15960685
if it's on your property, then it's yours. fuck the government

if it's on public property, then it's partially yours - get the finders fee, otherwise you're stealing it from the public.

if its on private property that's not yours, you're stealing it like stealing vegetables from a farmer.

so, the question is how do you get away with stealing.
you're going to need to figure that one out yourself.

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>>15960685
just crh you scrub metal detecting has no roi

>> No.15961079

If you find a cache of gold then melt it yourself. It's not like you aren't gonna be able to afford to get the equipment. Sell it for cash. Or claimbit was a gift.

And yeah that's basically money laundering.

>> No.15961095

>>15960685
I heard that many people were actually keeping finds to themselves due to some people having their entire treasure find confiscated.

I mean, fuck that. Would rather melt it down and say I panned it over 20 years.

>> No.15961708

>>15960685
i found the spot of 5million in gold artifacts in national monument land but someone had got there first.. that buried treasure was mine.. still not reported, though so hopefully a ranger didn't steal it for the gumbint

>> No.15962555

Melt it, pawn it for cash, fuck all

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>>15960685
>the government has the right to cuck you out of 75% of the value of any treasure you find

how the fuck are they gonna know?

>> No.15963496

>>15960685
top-mid coin has a cock and balls on it

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melt it down, not even hard bruh

then sell the bars on ebay bruh,

no one will know bruh

>> No.15963536

based thread. anyone do this in europe (old world)?

>> No.15963563

You better not melt it down. It'll destroy any historical value and that's what makes atrifacts valueable, not so much the amount of gold. But yeah fuck the government if it isn't some newsworthy hoard it will just end up in storage. Sell the coins. No one gives a shit if someone puts a coin on ebay every few months.