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[BikePacker]

Now a coroner must decide if Ken Allen, who made the discovery, can keep the treasure.

Ahhh... it was on HIS LAND.

[lelio]

Now a coroner must decide if Ken Allen, who made the discovery, can keep the treasure.

When the state brings in a coroner to decide if you can keep something, take that as a signal to let them have it.

[Bigg Red]

Wow!

[CindyDawg]

He should have never reported it.

[Bahbah]

This is an interesting one.

[11th Earl of Mar]

a coroner must decide if Ken Allen, who made the discovery, can keep the treasure

The coroner?

How about a second opinion from a pathologist?

[Henchman]

Seems these kinds of laws caused the rise of the US of A. Is there hope for Thornbury, Gloucestershire to rise? Ain't Socialism Grand, just ask a Democrat.

[Gunslingr3]

A spokeswoman for Bristol Coroner's Court said that even though the coins were found on Mr Allen's property they could still be ruled as being property of the state.

Oh reeeeeallly

[Burkeman1]

It amazes me why we even find coins at all from antiquity much less 20,000 of them in ne spot. What do you suppose the story behind this cache is? A wealthy merchant hiding money from the tax man but whose was killed or died suddenly without revealing this fortune? Or had inflation made the money worthless in the late 4th century in Britain? Was Rome's influence so weak that it's currency meant little and only those things that kept you alive mattered?

[GeronL]

"The pot was perfectly upright, I can't believe that this discovery was only 20ft from our house."

Alright!! I'm digging up an ancient pot!... ah its breaking... its full of coins!!!!!! "Honey!!"

[ibbryn]

There was a pretty interesting article posted on FreeRep in the last couple weeks on Britian's treasure troves. Since people have been living there so long, its not uncommon for someone to stumble across a stash that someone hid and couldn't retreive. Since the land may have changed hands a 100 times since the stash was hidden it is not always awarded to the property owner. In one case, an electrician working in an attic found an stash and told the homeowner. The homeowner told the treasure trove committee who ruled that the electrican was now the owner of the find, since it had been hidden before the current owner bought the home.

[America's Resolve]

Lets see.

The State gets to decide if the State or the individual gets to keep the stash. Hmmmm.

If the individual got to decide if the State or the individual got to keep the stash, it'd be a foregone conclusion.

But we all know that the State - ANY State - is emminently fair in these matters!

Yeah, this guys screwed!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

A spokeswoman for Bristol Coroner's Court said that even though the coins were found on Mr Allen's property they could still be ruled as being property of the state.
"What determines this is if the coins were buried there intentionally or lost.
"It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them, or never intended for them to be found.

This sounds like a job for the Florida Election Commission:

"We must determine the intent of the potter." (who died 1600 years ago before Britain was a country, like it matters)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins as he dug a new fishpond in his back garden.

This happens all the time in Britain. These'll be selling for $2 a piece in a year.

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[isom35]

first it was a mistake to report it. his next mistake would be to hand the find over to "them" while custody is decided. if they decide agaisnt him, and he still had them, he should report "oops, I cant find them, I guess they're lost again"

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