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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 4192497, member: 89314&quot;]I have to say this &quot;Finders Keepers&quot; attitude to coins discovered in the ground is what rightly has got the archaeologists upset.&nbsp; A coin, and even more a hoard,&nbsp; discovered&nbsp; in the ground should be examined by scholars before it disappears into the coin collecting community.&nbsp; The failure to do so has now led to a gross overreaction by governments with all the new restrictions on exporting coins and having tp prove provenance.&nbsp; The British Portable Antiquities scheme struck a fair balance between the interests of archaeologists and historians on the one hand and metal detectors and coin collectors on the other. It has been very successful. It is a mystery to me why it has not been copied across Europe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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