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 Australia police determining owner of buried coins
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PERTH, Australia – Police are trying to determine who owns a treasure-trove of gold coins unearthed from a building site on Australia's southwest coast.

Western Australia state police spokesman Gerry Cassidy said workers found the 400 British sovereigns last week while digging a ditch in the port city of Albany. They handed them to the property owner who is claiming ownership.

Cassidy said Wednesday police are checking law books to determine whether the property owner or even a museum is entitled to keep the coins, dated 1800 — 26 years before Albany was settled by Europeans.

"Police have got to work out exactly how they handle it," Cassidy said.

He said an appraiser valued one of the coins at 16,000 Australian dollars ($17,000) but did not have an estimate for all of the coins.

Brett Joins, chief executive of Wauters Enterprises, confirmed his construction company had given the coins to local businessman Paul Lionetti.

"An exhaustive search was completed of the site and no other items were found," Joins told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Lionetti could not immediately be contacted for comment Wednesday.

Police have no theories on how the coins came to be buried in Albany.

Cassidy said the coins were found individually and did not appear to have been buried in a container.




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Karl, who makes the best cowboy boots with leather heals and soles?

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Thats sad to come to such a nasty end for someone who entertained so many

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I'm not bothered how much just the right brand, coz I'm just going through Sheplers and they have so many brands
so now I'm confused

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to figure out who owns what or who should own what.

I figure the Police did the right thing in the beginning by handing them over, but not exactly to the owner of that commercial building site, but to the workers who actually unearthed them. (Granted, then the owner of the property & the workers who unearthed them can agree on a fair divy)

The police are checking law books? ....That's making me laugh out loud...Since when do the Police figure they have the authorization to determin the Law, or decide ownership of a find. (Way off base from there primary job descriptions)

But how in the world, would they figure a museum should ever have any rights or claim to own them is way off base and unethical in my honest opinion!

I'd hate to go gold nugget hunting in AU and find a 50 Oz nugget or any size nuggets, and have someone else try to say that the state has to determin who owns them!  (Id be raising heck & in the slammer for sure)  



Thanks jere for the article and link, I appreciate reading current events in the T'hunting world...

Cheers,  
Jimbo

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	Hi, did you guys see this on yahoo?  Australia police determining owner of buried coins  ShareretweetEmailPrint– Wed May 18, 5:22 am ET PERTH, Australia – Police are trying to determine who owns a treasure-trove of gold coins unearthed from a building site on Australia's southwest coast. Western Australia state police spokesman Gerry Cassidy said workers found the 400 British sovereigns last week while digging a ditch in the port city of Albany. They handed them to the property owner who is claiming ownership. Cassidy said Wednesday police are checking law books to determine whether the property owner or even a museum is entitled to keep the coins, dated 1800 — 26 years before Albany was settled by Europeans. "Police have got to work out exactly how they handle it," Cassidy said. He said an appraiser valued one of the coins at 16,000 Australian dollars ($17,000) but did not have an estimate for all of the coins. Brett Joins, chief executive of Wauters Enterprises, confirmed his construction company had given the coins to local businessman Paul Lionetti. "An exhaustive search was completed of the site and no other items were found," Joins told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Lionetti could not immediately be contacted for comment Wednesday. Police have no theories on how the coins came to be buried in Albany. Cassidy said the coins were found individually and did not appear to have been buried in a container.

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Auction is up to 44 bucks guys, yhee haa...Did'nt get to hunt long, started raining again. posted todays finds.

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