Diggers on tonight

[Steve1825]

For those who follow detecting on the TV, National Geographic Channel starts the second season of Diggers tonight at 9pm.

Also in the news, $27,000 face gold coins found in cans on a california property worth over $10 Million Dollars.

 

[TroynSon]

Wow! Well I guess that would pay for your detector. Amazing.

Diggers is kinda why I got into detecting. My son liked the show and asked if we could try it. Sounds like some interesting episodes this season to. The Steve Jobs one should be neat.

Thanks for news Steve, I'm going to look that gold find up for more info.

 

[Larry (IL)]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/california-couple-finds-10m-buried-treasure-in-back-yard/

 

[Nancy-IL]

Sad thing, it's all staged. If you look closely, all the so called, "new digs" always have a triangle flap where it's been planted and it's so cool how clean some of those so called "finds" come out of the ground. It's entertaining but it does give a false representation to the hobby. It's not all a bunch of roses each and every time one goes out detecting. I hope that the ones that do see the show are as responsible as retrieving items and asking permission to hunt. Shows like this can damage the hobby when idiots out there think it's so easy to get the rewards. And Lord knows, Larry and I have seen some pretty nasty places where someone has tried to retrieve objects and left it in a nasty mess along with the trash they had dug. Unreal, just unreal what all we've seen.

 

[afieldsne]

I love that show. Those guys are too fun. It's cool to have a show about my hobby.

 

[Louie.Penning]

Yeah, those guys are a little to enthusiastic, but entertaining.

 

[Nancy-IL]

Yeah, those guys are a little to enthusiastic, but entertaining.

You're not kidding about their "enthusiastic" behavior. Entertaining is right...lots of laughs.

 

[TroynSon]

I was glad to see they put up a website to direct people to responsible detecting at the beginning. I enjoyed the show.

 

[Nancy-IL]

I was more impressed with the new season premier. Yes, it's great to see they are promoting responsible detecting.

 

[Steve1825]

Update on the $10 million in gold coins found last February 2013 that has made the news lately. This is from the IRS:

2013 tax guide in which the IRS stated: "If you find and keep property that does not belong to you that has been lost or abandoned (treasure-trove), it is taxable to you at its fair market value in the first year it is in your undisputed possession."

This means they owe the IRS $4 million by April 15, 2014 whether they sell the coins or not unless someone else steps forward with a claim.

 

[Nancy-IL]

That was a "give me", we all knew that was coming with that amount of gold found. If it were a treasure trove of $500, I bet they wouldn't be knocking on their door. Every one else will fall on the band wagon and start holding their hands out too. Sad, but so true.