Man Finds $150,000 worth of Gold Roman Coins

A guy buys a cheap metal detector for the first time, heads to his local woods and finds $150,000 worth of Roman gold coins after a couple of hours!! Then heads back to the shop he bought it from and says "What do I do with these?"

Now that's beginners luck!!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4593755/First-try-detector-in-100k-coin-find.html

 

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Well, now that they are public knowledge, he may have to turn them over to the government as a national treasure, unless it is determined the coins are just treasure (make sense?).

 

$150,000 is not big money. He can keep it since he deserves it for his hard work. There are dangerous animals in the forest who can easily kill people.

 

So if you were the local coroner, would you decide it goes in the local St. Albans museum ?

It has been described as historically important.

It was discovered on private land ( but I am very sure it wasn't his land) so there is another possible court case. The land seemed to be disturbed recently by farm activity. It wasn't in a forest, and a "mad cow" is probably the most dangerous animal in England.

Call me a skeptic, but I personally don't entirely believe his side of the story, IMO.

Jim

 

I thought they slayed all of the dragons years ago

 

And caged the lions, tigers and bears.

 

oh my!

 

I just looked over my shoulder for flying primates. I think they may have missed those.

 

They do have to be turned over to the county coroner. They will almost certainly be declared Treasure. This is NOT a bad thing. The Museuems will be offered the coins BUT they have to come up with and pay the fair market value for them if they want to keep them. If they don't want them or can't come up with the money they will be returned to the finder and they will become his property. Or rather his and the landowner. Typically treasure trove findings are split equally between the finder and the land owner.

If potential treasure finds are not reported and then learned about later they can be confiscated and fines can be levied. It is actually to the finders benefit to report finds. This is one of the things that makes the British Treasure Trove laws such a good thing. The finder can't get hurt by them and it identifies archeological site and helps to prevent looting.