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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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A friend of mine who also collects ancient coins (thats way out of my league) sent me this link. What a remarkable find. Nice little video as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/10546960.stmMoved to Ancients forum - Sap |
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
Canada
241 Posts |
wow! its almost unbelievable .... so much ancien coins !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2120 Posts |
Thats quite a temptation to resist. But I suppose it makes them worth more than junk roman coins. Now they can be certified and sold and he will get probably a larger chunk of money than he would have if he dug it up himself.
Thanks for sharing. very cool story.
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Valued Member
United States
321 Posts |
Aw man thats so cool. Too bad they've been damaged through time. If he decides to sell his 52500 coins then I might be interested in one. That would be cool to have one and link it to this story.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
thats an awesome story. Would love to run up on something like that!
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Valued Member
Canada
168 Posts |
It says the 'reward' is shard by the finder and the land owner. Not sure if that means next to nothing or a percent of the sale
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Valued Member
Canada
426 Posts |
forget roll searching, I'm going Jar hunting!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
I am sorry guys, I know what British law states about "Treasure Troves", but I would have had to take a few hundred for my efforts. I have a small Ancient collection myself and would love to add some perfect silver specimens such as those.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Yeah, I dream of finding a pirate hoard one day! We'll see! LOL
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New Member
United Kingdom
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The Treasure Trove Law is designed to encourage people to declare finds so that they can be properly investigated - so if the find is really valuable then the finder and the land-owner both stand to receive a good settlement. He's also got his place in history, finds like this don't happen very often and his name will always be linked to this find.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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How did the Gold Celtic or Norman coin and jewlery discovery end? That find was in the news and made all the daily shows in the US. It was all the rage to report about, then just died in the press. I presume all interested parties were happy?
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Moderator
 Australia
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I assume you're talking about the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon artefacts, which was in the news last year. Yes, it's more or less all been settled. The final value for that treasure was set at just over three and a quarter million British pounds. Two museums in Birmingham and Staffordshire subsequently managed to jointly raise this amount of money, which will now be split 50:50 between the metal-detectorist finder and the landowner. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's the one...It kind of makes you want to set out to do some treasure hunting. Look out "Eldorado", here I come.
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Posted 07/08/2010 12:20 pm
