How much is it worth ???????

$250?

 

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$250,000 USD? Regardless, I wouldn't be all that surprised if they indeed valued it higher.

 

If it's like a drug bust, 1000x what you think.

 

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If I can't get my next hit, I'm going to blame it on you!

 

Real value would probably be $500-600? Most look worn and crusty but a few stand out

 

And the answer is: 76,110£ (105,000 USD)...

 

That seems a little much, honestly.

That's over 2 grand each for each of the coins and bronze objects.
I would have thought that 20,000 would be a more reasonable estimate.

However, if the intention is to punish the offender as seriously as possible, then that's the way to do it, and to make an example.
I guess.

 

Well, I was way off. I generously valued the coins at around £100 each....clearly the Kent constables know way more than I do.

 

Yikes. Shocked, but somehow not surprised.

 

Does the punishment increase with value? If so, the guy's lawyer had better hire a numismatist as an expert witness, right away!

 

I suppose it depends on jurisdiction. Some places in America above a certain dollar amount is a felony and below that is a misdemeanor

 

Right, but this is in the UK, and I have no idea what the law provides there.

 

Another possibility is ignorance of value.
I mean, I feel like the vast majority of non-collectors just assume that anything ancient is worth a LOT.
For example, when I first showed my parents some coins they first asked if they were very expensive. I said no, and then they assumed they must be fake if they weren't extremely valuable.

Maybe someone took a look at the batch and thought, "that's a lot of antiquities. Must be worth a bundle" and went with it.

 

Yeeeeeesh.

Hard to tell from the pic, but those look like $10-30 coins.

But then again, these are the same sort of people who bust a kid downloading a Britney Spears album on Napster on his grandmother's computer and calculate that he owes the record label $300,000 in damages...

Money isn't a real, concrete concept to these people.

 

I am not surprised.
Non collectors think that either an ancient (and not only ancient) coin has at least 3 figure price. Option 1. Option 2 is that the value is zero, because they're worn and dirty and have germs (yes, I heard that).

I read an article a few months ago regarding a guy who found "an extremely rare and valuable ancient coin" when working on the field. He gave it to local authorities in his village, they studied it, they gave it to some other authority in a bigger town, and then to others for study ... the article was very detailed with all the experts and authorities who dealt with it, I was starting to get curious, I was sure it's an Aureus in perfect condition. Everybody was happy, the reporter was exalted, and in the bottom of the article they finally provided a picture, only with the reverse of the fantastic coin.
I will let you be the judge of the numismatic value.

 

Did the Kent Constabulary get highrating_ lowpricing's Illya Zlobin's opinion?

 

Where has honesty and integrity gone? Why is the agenda more important than the truth?

And, why do the police feel the need to participate in such a sham?

 

I was going to guess that the estimate was based on the annual GNP of Costa Rica, so I guess $105,000 seems quite reasonable.

 

I think whoever the retained attorney is, he or she should expect representation expenses to be paid in worn Byzantine coppers and contraband beer.

 

Be sure that the Police asked an EXPERT to estimate that bunch of metals value