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To: yankeedame
There is alot of history in Britian. It took the Athens subway about 20 years to go 3 miles - every 10 feet they had to stop and investigate all the artificats that were found...
2 posted on
03/11/2004 9:14:19 AM PST by
2banana
To: yankeedame
Amazing that these things are still being unearthed!
Roma Victa!
3 posted on
03/11/2004 9:16:50 AM PST by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: yankeedame
The coins were deliberately buried when Roman governor Franklinus Delanus Rooseveltus ordered the confiscation of all coins of precious metal in order to replace them with notes from the Bancus Brittanorum.
4 posted on
03/11/2004 9:17:10 AM PST by
Publius
(Die Erde ist gewaltig schön, doch sicher ist sie nicht.)
To: yankeedame
"Now a coroner must decide if Ken Allen, who made the discovery, can keep the treasure."Fat chance, Ken.
5 posted on
03/11/2004 9:17:10 AM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: yankeedame
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.
The intentions of the 4th century owner would be impossible to determine, therefore they belong to the state.
Everything rightfully belongs to the state.
6 posted on
03/11/2004 9:17:27 AM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: yankeedame
"It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them..." Put an advert in the lost and found column of the daily newspaper. If "he" doesn't come around to claim them, then he certainly has forgotten about them.
7 posted on
03/11/2004 9:17:46 AM PST by
weegee
('...Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.')
To: blam
ping!
8 posted on
03/11/2004 9:18:25 AM PST by
annyokie
(There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
To: yankeedame
Since England would have been a part of the Roman Empire, to which "State" should the coins go? Back to Rome? Or to the British Museum?
9 posted on
03/11/2004 9:19:56 AM PST by
weegee
('...Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.')
To: yankeedame
They should let him keep it. What crap!!
To: yankeedame
Read later.
To: yankeedame
quick...buy stock in British metal detectors. The craze will be re-ignited.
13 posted on
03/11/2004 9:21:47 AM PST by
Mark Felton
(Antiestablishedpartymentarianist)
To: yankeedame
"It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them, or never intended for them to be found. You can't make this stuff and satire is over.
20 posted on
03/11/2004 9:26:52 AM PST by
don-o
To: yankeedame
All your coins are belong to us......
22 posted on
03/11/2004 9:30:23 AM PST by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: yankeedame
I wonder how much a slightly used coroner goes for these days?
To: yankeedame
"It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them"Wait a minute! Did the article say Gloucestershire, specifically Thornbury? And are they sure the pot was ceramic? 20,000 coins?
Well how about that! Here I thought I buried them in Tewkesbury. I've been looking all over for them.
Mystery solved. They're mine.
To: yankeedame
A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins...While it is possible these coins are the rare ones, I know I have seen coins like this in the local coin shop and they are probably far from "priceless". I bought several of them for very cheap. (not 20,000, however)
They are mostly copper or some other soft metal stamped with the image of the "leader of the moment" for whatever part of the empire they were created in.
I guess there were so many created for circulation, they don't bring much value to collectors.
32 posted on
03/11/2004 9:37:35 AM PST by
scan58
To: yankeedame
Amazing. Sales of metal detectors should be increasing now.
35 posted on
03/11/2004 9:38:52 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: yankeedame
"They will then be taken to the British Museum in London for further examination."
Like hell they will.
If, I found them on my property, and I dug them up, they are my property.
Now, for a few billion pounds they could go to London.
38 posted on
03/11/2004 9:41:13 AM PST by
auggy
(http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-DownhomeKY /// Check out My USA Photo album & Fat Files)
To: yankeedame
"They will then be taken to the British Museum in London for further examination."
Like hell they will.
If, I found them on my property, and I dug them up, they are my property.
Now, for a few billion pounds they could go to London.
42 posted on
03/11/2004 9:43:55 AM PST by
auggy
(http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-DownhomeKY /// Check out My USA Photo album & Fat Files)
To: yankeedame
Looks like a pile of dirt and gravel to me. Hey! I think I may have dug up tons of ancient Roman coinage over the years and simply discarded them because my untrained eye thought they were a bunch of rocks. Damn!
43 posted on
03/11/2004 9:44:41 AM PST by
rogers21774
(The guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.)
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