Would you do this? Find a 1852 gold coin and give it to the land owner?

[halfdime]

Hey out-raged: You say:

Why would anyone waste their time digging up all those finds for nothing

Since when is a finding a $5 gold piece "nothing"? I've had the thrill of finding ten gold coins in my years of this, and I would gladly welcome the opportunity to find another one, even if it meant I couldn't keep it afterwards. That's why God invented digital cameras for, so you could keep a nice pix of it You still have bragging rights to your friends right? And that's half the fun!

Wow! One's perspective after finding ten gold coins probably differs from the person who's never found one.

 

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[Korban]

If thats the agreement i made i couldnt keep the coin in good conscience. i usually find that giving the owner first crack on found items is a for sure way to hunt their property, however i usually say that if we find anything of great value we spit it down the middle. For me its about finding it, not about keeping it. it would be hard to give up a gold coin tho.

 

[outraged]

Hey out-raged: You say:

Why would anyone waste their time digging up all those finds for nothing

Since when is a finding a $5 gold piece "nothing"? I've had the thrill of finding ten gold coins in my years of this, and I would gladly welcome the opportunity to find another one, even if it meant I couldn't keep it afterwards. That's why God invented digital cameras for, so you could keep a nice pix of it You still have bragging rights to your friends right? And that's half the fun!

Wow! One's perspective after finding ten gold coins probably differs from the person who's never found one.

Very true...I guess if i found one there is nothing anyone could do to pry it out of my lil sweaty hand....

 

[outraged]

For me its about finding it, not about keeping it.

But isn't that kinda like going to a coin show and yelling WOW i found all these coins...Then going home with nothing?

 

[ashleen]

A deal is a deal. Period!

 

[texan connection]

The deal I usally make is this (depending on the hunted property and potentiel value). I keep the coins you keep the relics, should we find somthing of significant value we sell it and spilt it 50/50 or you buy my half for appraised value.

 

[lucky1777]

I would invite him to hunt my property anytime. Not that I would keep what he found, but I know I would have the opportunity to see everything he found. As for some of you other people, I wouldn't let you hunt my kids sandbox. I would like to congratulate you on an amazing find, and for also being a honest and decent representative to our great hobby.

 

[Mirage]

I have made this type of agreement and honored it - giving everything to the owner of the property. I'm glad it wasn't a gold coin I had to give away. That would have really hurt. Now I say that if the find is worth over $50 it will be auctioned off and the profit split. This still leaves me or the property owner the opportunity to buy back the item for half the actual value.

 

[DirtyHowi]

after reading all of this, to the returner of the coin, kudos.

Whether or not any one of us would enter into that agreement is moot, he did, he honored it.

and remember, trust is something you can only have lost from you once...

 

[jhnbaker]

I admire anyone who would do that however I would not even enter into an agreement such as that. People who give us permission to hunt on their land should expect that someone who has spent a great deal of money on a quality detector and time hunting would be keeping what they find unless of course it is something such as a wedding ring class ring or of a personal intimate nature. In that case I would do everything I could to find the person that lost it and give it to them with my compliments.