Just a little article about Groat Find

nicholasz219

Thought some of you may like it.

Henry VIII Groats

Dabigkahuna

Cool story!

Thanks!

SaorAlba

Robert Kett is one of my wife's ancestors - I wonder if she should file for a claim of ownership?

worldcoinguy

Cool story.

What is the generally accepted number of coins that qualifies it as a hoard? I also wonder what type of spending power the hoard represented. Is it as simple as a guy dropping his moneypouch in the mud after a night at the tavern, only to have a horse step on it and bury it for 4 1/2 centuries?

nicholasz219

That is a really good question as to what constitutes a hoard in the eyes of the British government. I was quite surprised to see that the "hoard" as defined in the article was 14 pieces I believe. I think from that small of a number it can be two or more coins? I also noticed that there was no mention of whether the coins were buried in some vessel that was obviously for long term storage or just a bag o' coins stuck in the ground temporarily.

lordmarcovan

Thanks for posting that.

nicholasz219

Well, if you liked that Lord Marcovan, here is some other interesting stuff I found on Wiki.

Hoard Stuff

And:

Treasure Act clarification

Treasure Act itself:

Treasure Act of 1996

As long as certain conditions are met, two items may qualify as treasure and regulated by above act.

lordmarcovan

Been there, read almost all of that. That Wikipedia list of hoards helped me survive a very slow night at work, once.