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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1628453, member: 12789&quot;]I cannot say for Ireland and what it&#039;s laws are, but the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Britain works very well and the finders are awarded full market value of their finds by the government.&nbsp; Even when a find doesn&#039;t have significant monetary value - but if it tells a story because of where it was found, or where it was from, it can be reported through the programme.&nbsp; I can understand where American readers would be a bit put off by the whole affair, but really it does work and well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I myself own a 17th century token that was found in Shropshire - it was reported to the PAS because it was not English, but had somehow travelled from Ireland to rural Shropshire back in the 17th century whence it was lost.&nbsp; It was found by a detectorist in 2007 and reported due to the fact it was an Irish token from Cork that somehow ended up in the north of England.&nbsp; Sure it was not a significant monetary find, but the find illustrates that tokens may have travelled around more than we think they would have.&nbsp; I had to have the dealer who had it get an export license to be able to export it from the UK - it took a couple of days and they posted the token to me.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/17thtokens/corkpenny1659.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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