Despite the generous law there has still been people that did exactly that. But to be fair, around the early 1800s Denmark was broke as hell, no meaningul government, a sickly king, so a lot of things went wrong there. Including the British coming over to trash the Danish fleet just for funsies. And Danish forests being down to just 1-2% of its whole territory (but we’re back to over 20% now).
I couldn’t find anything in Danish media either just now, just that the treasure weighed around 18½ kilo. That’s the biggest silver treasure found in Denmark to date. Regarding compensation/reward, maybe it has to be properly evaluated first, or maybe they just want to keep it private. The person that found it has chosen to be anonymous as far as I can tell.
By Danish law it’s “Danefæ”, and one gets compensated depending on the value of the find.
I had this borderline nightmare thought of people creating gold and silver bars out of historical finds if they didn’t. Good law.
Despite the generous law there has still been people that did exactly that. But to be fair, around the early 1800s Denmark was broke as hell, no meaningul government, a sickly king, so a lot of things went wrong there. Including the British coming over to trash the Danish fleet just for funsies. And Danish forests being down to just 1-2% of its whole territory (but we’re back to over 20% now).
The page doesn’t say what % of estimated value though.
I couldn’t find anything in Danish media either just now, just that the treasure weighed around 18½ kilo. That’s the biggest silver treasure found in Denmark to date. Regarding compensation/reward, maybe it has to be properly evaluated first, or maybe they just want to keep it private. The person that found it has chosen to be anonymous as far as I can tell.