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    Rossendale metal detectorist jailed over attempted rare coin sale ordered to repay £103k
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    Rossendale metal detectorist jailed over attempted rare coin sale ordered to repay £103k

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    1. Dog_Apoc on

      Okay, so what you’re telling me is that if I ever go metal detecting, I should destroy anything rare I find since I can’t make money from it and don’t want to donate it?

    2. fatveg on

      So many questions. Did he find the coins with his metal detector or did he get them on some sort of black market. If you find coins are they not yours in case they are part of some treasure that someone buried 900 years ago? Are you supposed to declare them? Where’s the line? If he was a black market coin trader why mention he was a metal detectorist, misleading the reader?

      Edit. Apparently there is a treasure act and he should have known to declare it. I’ll be honest it’s the first I’ve heard of it, and if I’d found a stash of old coins yesterday I’d have likely done the same as him.

    4. Teaboy1 on

      Obviously treasure should be declared its for national interest.

      That been said if if I found 100 grands worth of treasure in the ground. I’d be lying if I said I wouldnt be tempted to not declare some. Particularly if I had debts to pay.

    7. cochlearist on

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0kvsxcv?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

      England and Wales have, from what I’ve seen, the fairest metal detecting laws in the world.

      If you find something good in many countries then it automatically belongs to the state, you are likely to get nothing. People don’t report their finds and artifacts are never seen by anyone outside of those who found it or bought it off them.

      If you’ve got permission to search the land from the landowner and you report it, if it’s worth a museum buying it, you get to split that money with the landowner, historians get to assess it amd people get to see it.

      I’d be fucking stoked to have one of my finds displayed in a museum.

      Theft of our history is deplorable.

    8. Arcon1337 on

      Laws like this is how black markets are encouraged. Why punish people, and not incentive them to hand it over?