[Yo-Yo]

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

Paging Dr. Quincy, please call Dr. Asten.

[rface]

Roman Coin ping

[glock rocks]

Holy cow. This stash would pay for a fleet of new Minelabs, and a couple hundred backup Whites and Garretts!

[VRWC_minion]

How do we know it was only 1 bucket ?

[Peter J. Huss]

Lesson: If you find coins, gold or a bag of money next to the road, keep ya mouth shut.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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

Maaybe I'm a cynic...alright, I'm a cynic...but how do you suppose THAT decision will go.

Kiss the coins goodbye Ken. You can visit them in the museum. Maybe.

[rogueleader]

I don't know who will get to keep the treasure, but I can tell you one thing for sure. This is every property law professor's wet dream of a case.

Possible angles include:

* Who owns the coins under Roman law? Would Roman law apply?

* Would the intervening years between the Roman Empire and the Norman conquest of England in 1066 have any legal effect on the coins?

* If the English law courts find that the coins belong to the crown, could the landowner maintain an action for unjust enrichment against the crown, seeing that it was the landowner who performed the important and valuable service of finding the coins?

* and so on ad infinitum

[Charles Henrickson]

A lotta good those coins would do him. What's he gonna do with the darn things? Where's he gonna find a vending machine that will accept Roman coins? "Oh, I think I'll pop down to the vending machine and buy myself a Chariot Cola, by jove!"

[itsahoot]

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.

You can count on it.

[pau1f0rd]

I saw this and thought of this post. I think it shows that the treasure trove system in the UK is reasonably fair. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1130782/posts

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