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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 4083183, member: 40017&quot;]I do not metal detect, so I have not been through the process, but I am familiar with how it operates.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Compensation&quot; is really the wrong term. If the coroner decides a find is &quot;treasure&quot; it is then independently valued by experts. As they use the best publications and auction house results, this generally means that the value assigned is top market/retail value. The find is then offered at this price to the museums and other historical institutions in the UK. If they buy, the finders and landowners get this full amount. If not the find is returned for them to sell or keep as they see fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>So declaring your find usually means you get more for it than if you sold it privately and there should be no incentive to hide from the coroner. When people have tried to avoid the reporting process, it has usually been because they had no agreement with the landowner, or they did not want to share their win with him or her. If caught, the punishment can be severe - this from the last few months: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50478708" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50478708" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50478708</a> where the ringleader got 10 years gaol.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the sentencing report: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516329" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516329" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516329</a> The fourth member, who was ill at the time, got a suspended sentence as he has cancer and was less involved in the fraud.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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