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Dog digs up haul of medieval coins in Poland
- flemhans 4y agoThey now belong to the dog.
- nathancahill 4y agoDid the dog write this?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoNobody will know.
- lloydatkinson 4y agohttps://medium.com/@brilliantsocial/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-re-a-dog-d08981020cbb https://medium.com/@brilliantsocial/on-the-internet-nobody-k...
- selimthegrim 4y agoProbably one of the three men in the boat.
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- doodlebugging 4y agoProbably the only dogecoin that has any real value.
- cinntaile 4y agoI just checked, $0.08812 is what you get for 1 dogecoin. Looks pretty real to me.
- doodlebugging 4y agoThis time last year it was at $0.6848 (May 6). That's a drop in value of last year's dogecoin of about 88%. If I found a dime in the parking lot on May 6 last year I can still purchase any item with a total price today of 10 cents or less.
- cinntaile 4y agoI fail to see how this is relevant. It clearly has value and value fluctuates over time.
- teruakohatu 4y agoIf this kind of story intrigues you, take a look at the 2018 video game "Kingdom Come: Deliverance", It is an RPG that centers around a region with silver mines in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the early 15th century. The area these silver coins were found in was once part of Bohemia, and less than 200 km from where the video game was set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance
- mettamage 4y agoSilly question: if her dog digs it up does it means she owns those coins? The article gives the vague impression that she didn’t
- mirekrusin 4y agoThatever was found in earth belongs to govt
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- firecall 4y ago"For now, however, they do not want to reveal the precise location of the discovery, to discourage amateur metal detectors from arriving, reports Gazeta Wyborcza." Detectorists. It's Detectorists.
- DeBraid 4y agoFor anyone missing context, joke refers to the fabulous TV show `Detectorists`. Well worth your time to watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
- philliphaydon 4y agoWhen people find stuff like this do they get a cash reward or anything. Something like this could be kept and sold and end up in a private collection. But when people notify and they end up in a museum for everyone to see, does the finder miss out?
- ByteJockey 4y agoDepends heavily on the country. I know in the UK, treasure belongs to the crown, but they will usually pay you a percentage for finding "their treasure". In the US, as long as it isn't something that would be sacred to native tribes, it's pretty much yours. In Italy, I'm pretty sure the government just gets it and there's a bunch of burden put on the land owner while they look for more artifacts (there are stories of people destroying roman documents rather than report them to the authorities). It seems like Polish law would be the only relevant one here (I don't think EU law covers any of this), and based on a cursory search they seem to be much closer to Italy than the US on this spectrum.
- mirekrusin 4y agoWhatever is found in earth belongs to the government. You probably get 10 minutes fame and nice story to tell on bbqs and that’s about it. Of course any reasonable person would put in pocket two or three of those for kids/grandchildren to give in few years.
- ByteJockey 4y agoThat does seem to be the case in a lot of countries. The big exception being the US (including mineral rights). As someone from the US, it was actually quite surprising finding out other countries handled things this way.
- mirekrusin 4y agoI'm too lazy to check the facts, I grew up in Poland and that's what I remember my dad saying.
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- knotofvipers 4y agoIt is cool to see they are rare. I was going to say, you can buy coins from ancient Rome for shockingly cheap prices on ebay if they are not in good condition. I had denarius handed down to me that is worth about 10 bucks.