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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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And now I know NOT to kill moles.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just a thought. If the government confiscates ancient coins that people find, how are there ancient coin on the market?
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Moderator
 United States
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Thanks for posting the article Bob, it's a shame that the finder will not be allowed to keep even a few of the coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The British Government has a relatively enlightened attitude to treasure trove, enshrined in Law.
In an attempt to keep the finder honest, he is compensated.
His finds go to a museum, the museum cleans them, researches them and keeps what it needs for its own purposes.
Those not required by the museum are public auctioned and the finder is compensated from that sale.
The finder if interested, also gets to select some coins for his own collection, if has has one.
The coins publicly auctioned find their way onto the secondary market.
I cannot see why variations of these Laws cannot be adopted World wide except for the fact that corruption rears it's ugly head in most countries. This corruption favours a few, and encourages dishonesty in many.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have always been amazed by the fact that people can find these sorts of coins and then just turn around and give them to the government for *maybe* a finders fee.
I completely agree with sel that in a perfect world, every dug ancient would be cleaned and restored by a professional... heavens knows I have my share of damaged coins that could have been something special had they not been cleaned in acid.
But whatever his finder's fee... 4,000 uncirculated bronze and silver coins... we're talking $8k minimum, up into the tens of thousands or more if there are any undocumented types. I highly doubt the farmer will see more than a couple thousand for turning these coins over.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Cool article, I guess it would be hard to sell so many coins underground.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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In Spain is very different...
Each "Autonomia" (like a german lander) has his own rules, but are very similar...
...and stupids
example "Andalucia".
Itīs absolutelly legal to have a metal detector but...
Itīs absolutelly illegal to use it (including INSIDE your home)
If you are walking and you find something (a roman coin), if itīs a unexpected find the coin is valued and a little part is given to you (in theory...)
Imagine that you find an uncirculated Marcus Antonius& Cleopatra denarius, well it weigth about 4 grams of silver so probably will be valued in 2 euros and you would receive 1...
...if someone pay it because you must go from one office to another to never receive that money.
After that, in the best case you will see how that coin is storaged in one box with other hundreds of thousands. No one is going to see that coin exposed in a museum.
In the worst case you will be a coin very, very, very similar in a german or swiss auction few weeks after...
As you can imagine nobody wants to be a "good boy" and cross an autentic "paper ocean" to give a LRB.
Ah, in that law they consider as an archeological artifact every thing of only 50 years old!
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Valued Member
Germany
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Athalbert but I see many people in ebay from Spain and they sell ancient coins ? |
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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In Spain we have two favorite hobbies:
1.- making laws for everything
2.- not to obey those laws
The result is a country really different
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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One thing I was wondering about after thinking about this article...
If the stash was made at the end of the 3rd century in the midst of hyperinflation, why were bronze/billon coins stashed? These rarely if ever held intrinsic value comparable to face value, so shouldn't this person have buried a few dozen gold coins or a few hundred silver ones, instead of a few thousand coppers?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yeah, I saw that today. man, they cleaned up real nice, compare with the article pic.  Edited by chrsmat71
11/20/2015 11:07 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Who cares about stupid laws, they keep people dishonest for a reason.
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Posted 11/19/2015 7:13 pm
