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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1506869, member: 66&quot;]No the crown does not.&nbsp; and apparently they have usually one year to raise the money to satisfy the valuation committee&#039;s fair market value.</p><p><br /></p><p>They had a problem like this several years back with a gold penny.&nbsp; Lots of museums wanted it but they couldn&#039;t come up with the 400K pounds valuation and the coin went back to the finder.&nbsp; It then sold at auction for 857K pounds.&nbsp; The US buyer then had a problem because the British did not want this treasure to leave the country and would not issue an export license for it.&nbsp; The buyer threatened legal action and eventually the government wound up buying it for in excess of 900K pounds.&nbsp; (The buyer came down from 1,2 million.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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