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<p>[QUOTE="Eyestrain, post: 942453, member: 24213"]I'd say 95-99% of them will likely make it to market. Under British law, the local museums get first pick to buy at fair market value. But it's unlikely they'll find much they'll feel they must have -- maybe a few specimens, but not much more. They're already well stocked in Roman coins. The rest go back to the man who discovered them to dispose of as he likes. Unless he's such a huge collector of third and fourth century bronzes that he wants to own 52k of them, he'll go to some of the UK dealers to help unload them. I'm sure he's already been contacted by many of them in anticipation of when he'll be getting his horde back from the museum curators.</p><p><br /></p><p>England has one of the best systems in the world for dealing with antiquity finds and more countries should use them as a model, rather than getting all in a tizzy about "cultural heritage" issues when it comes to something as common as ancient coins -- particularly Romans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Eyestrain, post: 942453, member: 24213"]I'd say 95-99% of them will likely make it to market. Under British law, the local museums get first pick to buy at fair market value. But it's unlikely they'll find much they'll feel they must have -- maybe a few specimens, but not much more. They're already well stocked in Roman coins. The rest go back to the man who discovered them to dispose of as he likes. Unless he's such a huge collector of third and fourth century bronzes that he wants to own 52k of them, he'll go to some of the UK dealers to help unload them. I'm sure he's already been contacted by many of them in anticipation of when he'll be getting his horde back from the museum curators. England has one of the best systems in the world for dealing with antiquity finds and more countries should use them as a model, rather than getting all in a tizzy about "cultural heritage" issues when it comes to something as common as ancient coins -- particularly Romans.[/QUOTE]
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