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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2336913, member: 19463&quot;]Worse than speculation in my mind is that museums will buy the hoards to make a display like this one of the Warwickshire hoard of a thousand denarii 190 BC to AD 64.</p><p><img src="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/numismatics/2014/04/29/warwickshirehoard_2.jpg?maxWidth=500" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Museum goers will enjoy seeing these coins piled up like this and many of you would not have coins of this grade in your collection because they are less than perfect.&nbsp; Others are not interested in late Republicans and early 12 Caesars material so the best thing that can happen to a find like this is for it to be piled up like this.&nbsp; Right?</p><p><br /></p><p>YOC:&nbsp; Your last post contradicts the articles that says the hoard value would be split between the landowner and finder equally.&nbsp; You say the finder gets nothing.&nbsp; I know nothing of UK law but would wonder if the equipment operator who found the hoard while on the job moving earth might have had a contract giving rights to any find to his employer as a whole or in part.&nbsp; Things like this is why we have lawyers who will also get a share while figuring out who else gets a share.&nbsp; I suspect that running a piece of earth moving equipment in the UK is about as likely to make you rich as buying lottery tickets and guaranteed to bring out a passel of people with hopes for their share if you win.&nbsp; The first article posted on this thread relates how other workers on the site tried to muscle in on the find before the dust settled.&nbsp; If only the landowner got paid, I doubt they would have stopped to look.&nbsp; For that matter, the finder would likely have just kept on pushing dirt until the plot was smoothed and the coins were buried again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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