For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester & Israel Ben Rivka.
Translated from Yalkut Yosef:
1. One who finds a lost object that belongs to someone has to take care of it and return it to the owner. If one found any lost bills (cash value) they can keep it for themselves and it is considered the property of the one who found it. This is because the person who lost the object on average checks their pockets frequently and has given up on finding the lost bills. Also since there is no sign that the bills belong to anyone specifically this makes it even easier to prove that the bills belong to the founder.
2. An object that belonged to a non-Jew, from the core of Halacha (law), is allowed to be owned when it is considered a lost object. There is also no Mitzvah to give back the lost object. If one wants to return the lost object to Lekadesh Shem Shamayim (put a good name for Hashem), so the non-Jew will praise Am Yisrael for being faithful people, he/she should be praised. If not returning the object will cause Chillul Hashem (a desecration of G-d's name), for example if the object was lost in a Jewish neighborhood and the non-Jew might think it was stolen by a Jew, then it is a Mitzvah (commandment) to return the lost object to the non-Jew to prevent Chillul Hashem.
SHABBAT SHALOM!
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