[2banana]

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...

[ffusco]

Amazing that these things are still being unearthed!

Roma Victa!

[Publius]

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.

[billorites]

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

Fat chance, Ken.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[weegee]

"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.

[annyokie]

ping!

[weegee]

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?

[international american]

They should let him keep it. What crap!!

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[Mark Felton]

quick...buy stock in British metal detectors. The craze will be re-ignited.

[don-o]

"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.

[RSmithOpt]

All your coins are belong to us......

[Old Professer]

I wonder how much a slightly used coroner goes for these days?

[robertpaulsen]

"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.

[scan58]

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.

[RightWhale]

Amazing. Sales of metal detectors should be increasing now.

[auggy]

"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.

[auggy]

"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.

[rogers21774]

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!