Jersey Coin Hoard

I bet you some of those coins will go missing!

SO many coins, so little time

I wouldn't denigrate archaelologists. I was trained in archaeology; all that inspires it is a quest for knowledge. There's no blanket hatred of collectors. But when the value of artifacts causes looters to violate the context of a deposit, that knowledge is lost forever. A hoard like this is looked at very differently by archaeologists; the variety of coins gives a window into the money in use at the time of the deposit, but it's an incredibly narrow snapshot. It's just the result of the action of one person, or a very few, in the space of an hour's time. There's virtually no context of a community or a span of time. Once the coins are identified, just about all the available knowledge has been gleaned. A good archaeologist wouldn't begrudge the coins then going into the hands of collectors, especially if the proceeds fund further research, or broaden the dissemination of knowledge as a whole.

Must not be a lo of GOOD archaeologists out there. Or at least a lot of very vocal BAD archaeologists.

And I would not be a all surprised if some of the coins go missing, eventually. Happens a lot. hoards of coins are turned over to a museum that puts most or all of them in storage rather than display (because there are just so many of them) and eventually it is discovered that some, in some cases all of them eventually turn up missing.