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Old Dec 18th 2014, 12:21 pm
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Default Father Christmas delivers early this year

An English couple renovating their XVIII century home in Lot & Garonne recently discovered a hoard of 45 Spanish gold écus in a hole in the wall.
Link HERE and News video clip.

They'll no doubt be spending a very Joyeux Noël. And very nice too!
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Old Dec 18th 2014, 4:26 pm
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^ Whoa! What's the forex rate on 1590 Spanish gold ecus these days?

Time to get on with the renovating I think....
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How does the law stand on finding it within your walls here, An old friend of mine that used to do loads of metal detecting mentioned if it was found out and about basically the state owned it. Not that I found much other than some old ish coins.
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How does the law stand on finding it within your walls here,
According to the article, the bounty belongs to the couple. Had they found it in the ground, it would have been the State's.
Go figure!
(About to get OH to agree to knocking our stone bergerie down, we might find le Trésor des Templiers!)
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Originally Posted by Chatter Static
How does the law stand on finding it within your walls here, An old friend of mine that used to do loads of metal detecting mentioned if it was found out and about basically the state owned it. Not that I found much other than some old ish coins.
Good question.
According to the article, the coins rightfully belong to the owners of the place, since it was discovered in the walls and not in the ground.

Whoops! DMU beat me to it with the reply.

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Originally Posted by dmu
According to the article, the bounty belongs to the couple. Had they found it in the ground, it would have been the State's.
Go figure!
(About to get OH to agree to knocking our stone bergerie down, we might find le Trésor des Templiers!)
You should be more ambitious: go for the Holy Grail.
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You should be more ambitious: go for the Holy Grail.
Been looking for a new wine glass..
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Been looking for a new wine glass..
Actually, I'm looking into one right now. How did you know?
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Actually, I'm looking into one right now. How did you know?
It's not rocket science to work out wether or not a bear shits in the woods...
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It's not rocket science to work out wether or not a bear shits in the woods...
Fair cop, guv.
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