let the couple who found 30,000 thousand dollars in gold coins in their backyard in California - keep the whole lot.

There is a press story that its possible the gold coins is loot from a robbery of the San Francisco mint back in 1890. While that may indeed be true, what is also true this is a nominal amount of monies and certainly not worth pursing in court. Better public relations can be had by simply letting the couple keep the monies.

The US treasury dept prints "face value" approx 1.3 billion dollars every day - seriously the US spends more on ink each day to print the 1.3 billion than the 30,000 is worth.

let them keep it.