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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 4061418, member: 89314&quot;]They are tough sentences but I don&#039;t think the crime was petty.&nbsp; Of the 30 coins retrieved (out of an estimated 300), five were of the &quot;Two Emperors&quot; type, which are apparently great rarities. Two were issued by Alfred the Great and three by Ceolwulf. The Court&#039;s Opening Note valued those at GBP 35000 - 50000 each.&nbsp; The value of the total hoard was not &quot;petty&quot;, certainly not for the landowner who would have received half the value of the hoard if it had been declared. This was a major theft.&nbsp; (This comes from a very detailed article on the story by John Andrew in the Jan. 2020 edition of the British magazine, <i>Coin News</i>). </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the judge may also have wanted to send a message to the metal detecting community.&nbsp; If people started to think not declaring finds would only result in a slap on the wrist, the&nbsp; integrity of the very successful Portable Antiquities Scheme would come into question.</p><p><br /></p><p>I assume Powell and Davies will be released early for good behavior and will not serve their full terms.&nbsp; Hopefully they will not reoffend, unlike the two Muslim terrorists who in separate incidents committed murder or attempted murder almost immediately after early release.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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