When will people learn to keep their mouths shut?
The government gets what, all of it?
How do you know they didn’t keep their mouths shut.
Maybe they really found 111 coins.
This was actually 5 years ago. Which is always my complaint about this “news”.
Government gets half in GB.
The law governing finds like this in the UK are clear.
To simplify the process, a committee of experts determines a market value, some museum buys it, and the money is split 50/50 between the finder and the land owner. The only thing the government gets is taxes. Of course, taxes in the UK tend to be high.