Krydtoff t1_iuam368 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:19 PM

Reply to comment by Enigmachina in Bronze Age gold belt with 'cosmological' designs unearthed in Czech beet field by quiver03

In Czechia, you will actually got something like 10% of the actual price or even less, and if you find it with a metal detector, you won’t get anything. Believe me, I had found many things that are now in museum and didn’t ever get anything

brickhamilton t1_iubi5mx wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:32 AM

Wait, how do they know if you’ve used a metal detector? Can’t you just tell them you didn’t?

degotoga t1_iubntwp wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:19 AM

It’s probably pretty obvious in most cases. Hard to explain why you’re digging holes in random locations

brickhamilton t1_iubotlw wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:28 AM

It just seems you could say it was poking out of the ground or you found it in a stream or you were planting a garden or anything else, really. They might have evidence that’s not true, but I think that’s unlikely. Why even have a metal detector rule like that?

degotoga t1_iubzh5a wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:07 AM

It’s to stop treasure hunting for profit. So while that might work once you probably wouldn’t get away with it a second time

Potatobender44 t1_iueeahf wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:20 PM

Why would you want to stop people from potentially unearthing cool historical artifacts? I would think you would want to incentivize it

degotoga t1_iuesw25 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:56 PM

The idea is to incentivize trained scientists through grants while discouraging amateurs and treasure hunters. In most cases the latter can do more damage than good. See Egypt as a case study

Krydtoff t1_iuf4uk3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:16 PM

This will sound like a joke, but if you find something and want some money from it, they will make a commission that can call cops to investigate your home and if they find anything resembling metal detector or other historical finds, you might end up paying them and go to a court

Krydtoff t1_iuf54v4 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:18 PM

Or and example like me, you find something that isn’t worth that much, you give it to the museum and they have you in their database, so if I ever were to find something by chance without metal detector, I still wouldn’t get anything