Treasure Hunter w/ metal detector in Britain finds 52,000 Roman Coins Wow !

Maybe old news to everyone here, I didn't find a previous post.
I thought was great info to post.
Thursday
One of the largest finds ever in Britain 52,000 Roman Coins
valued at $5 million, includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor.

The coins were buried in a large jar about a foot deep and weighed about 350 pounds

The treasure hunter David Crisp said a "funny signal" from his metal detector prompted him to start digging.

"I put my hand in, pulled out a bit of clay and there was a little radial, a little bronze Roman coin — very, very small, about the size of my fingernail," Crisp said in an interview with the BBC.

He recovered about 20 coins before discovering they were in a pot, and realized he needed expert help.
How cool.......
News summarized from thehawkeye

 

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There have been several threads on this but the bottom line is it will take the British Museum a while to sort through the mess and preliminary reports of contents and value are not something to take to the bank. The hoarde is called the "Frome Hoard" and searching on that name will get you better information not to mention a lot of rubbish as expected in popular press. 52,000 coins would have to average $100 each to break $5,000,000 and there are a very few coins of those pictured that seem really valuable. There were a few (the 5 silvers) very high end things which you can bet you will be able to see at the British Museum when this is all over. I will be interested in seeing the amount of the final payout but the photos I saw showed a lot of very ordinary ($10-30?) coins and a few at $1000-5000+.

There were several coins not immediately identifiable but this could change when the cleaning gets to them. It is always possible that something really special could be lurking there and that the $5 million could happen but we will have to wait and see. You might start asking yourself how much you will be willing to pay for a coin from this hoard. If the type and condition is otherwise a $10 item, does being from Frome make you willing to pay $11, $20 or what?