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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 5201524, member: 77639&quot;]U.K. museums and research institutions get first preference for the finds if they can pay.&nbsp; Then other museums if they can pay.&nbsp; Price is set at fair market by an independent board. Any that aren’t bought by a museum belong to the finder and landowner.&nbsp; There probably are some cases where the finder and landowner did get to keep some.&nbsp; I’m not familiar enough with the various finds to cite any where museums didn’t buy them all.&nbsp; It’s also possible that some coins bought by museums were later sold to the public by the museums.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Act_1996" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Act_1996" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Act_1996</a>) has a good description.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, the current treasure law only covers coins made of precious metal.&nbsp; Those of base metal belong to the finder and landowner unless they’re part of the same find as precious metal coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The law is being considered for revision to cover coins of all metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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