I know y'all have probably already heard about this recently-found hoard, but... wow.

lordmarcovan

Found on Jersey (That's OLD Jersey, not New Jersey, haha.)

WillieBoyd2

If it includes any of these, I would be interested:

lordmarcovan

You need help, WB2. Somebody must have swung one o' them "magic Egyptian" coins in your face and hypnotized you.

WillieBoyd2

Seriously, the Jersey Island treasure story has been getting a lot of press,
partly because the Jersey treasure laws are different than most of England.

lordmarcovan

Yeah, I figured it was getting a lot of buzz (how could it not?), but I've been living under a rock for the past two months.

MacCrimmon

<< <i>Seriously, the Jersey Island treasure story has been getting a lot of press,
partly because the Jersey treasure laws are different than most of England.

>>




How is Jersey different from the current UK Treasure Trove laws? ..... no plumb in the pie for Queenie?

Aethelred

I need a pot with 30,000 of those for my set!

WillieBoyd2

Jersey's separate treasure trove law, Queenie gets the whole thing.

From UK Guardian:

Like the old treasure trove law in mainland Britain, replaced in 1997 with the much more straightforward Treasure Act, Jersey's treasure regulations are based on medieval law, and depend on establishing not just that the hoard contains precious metal but how and why it came to be placed in the ground.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/26/iron-age-coins-discovered-jersey
(A good article on the find)