Dude found $5 million in coins!
 

Nice find. Article does not say whether he gets to keep them though. Metal detector sales will probably go up!

LONDON ? A treasure hunter has found about 52,500 Roman coins, one of the largest such finds ever in Britain, officials said Thursday.

The hoard, which was valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor.

Dave Crisp, a treasure hunter using a metal detector, located the coins in April in a field in southwestern England, according to the Somerset County Council and the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

The coins were buried in a large jar about a foot (30 centimeters) deep and weighed about 160 kilograms (350 pounds) in all.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/...in_roman_coins

Wow, killer find. Congrats to him! Hope he got all his legal ducks in a row before the queen goes crown shopping, hehe.

yeah how much will he get to keep i wonder

i wonder too, anybody with UK law about it in his head, how muhc he will take on this nice find?

So 1 coin worth a 100$, sweet price

He is getting a % of the find it was on the news recently they say that will become at least a millionaire

Nice :thumbsup

wow nice score for sure :thumbsup

lol yeah I heard that on the radio this morning. From what I understand, he will split the procedes 50/50 with the land owner where it was found.

Damn! That would be pretty awesome making a find like that and holding a piece of history that old... Too bad there's no hope of finding anything that old in the US :P

sweet score.......

You could always find a really old rock in the US...

:thumbsup that's how it works.

There's no money in treasure hunting, go away.

in the UK, if you find something old and valuable, its known as treasure trove, it will be valued and if the country i.e. a museum, decides it wants it, it has the right to purchase it at the full market value from you. otherwise you get to keep it.

He should get it all. since they prob would never have found it anyway.

The middle school I attended is older than the US

Good for him :)

Dude found 52,500 Roman coins.
Dude increases experience.

That is a great story. Good for him.

what he said

yeah and this was in the same county where I now live....Im in the wrong job.. gonna go buy me a metal detector

good on him... after 20 years he deserved to find something of real value :thumbsup

Wow,It's time to invest in one of those metal detectors and go hunting

really nice find!