£300,000 Coin Dispute

[Kev]

When two friends uncovered a haul of 840 Iron Age gold coins, it should have been the best day of their lives.
But after a three-year dispute over the £300,000 windfall Michael Darke and Keith Lewis have been left wishing they never stumbled across the precious change which date back to the Roman Empire.
A valuation committee has ruled that the pair are entitled to a quarter of the money and the owner of the field in Dallinghoo, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, is entitled to half.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376400/What-Dallinghoo-ha--300-000-gold-coin-sparks-bitter-rift-metal-detecting-friends.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Chef Geoff]

Wow I'm so glad I was on my own when I found my silver Stater I might of had to split my £30 winfall 

[nfl]

wots everybody moaning about,full price split 3 ways ,sounds fair to me,if the jelly fishers wanted a 50/50 share with the landowner they should be tectin without each other ......beware when agreing with your tectin bud about who shares what as these things happen........the only way my tectin bud would get a share would be if he helped recover the item/s and helped find the items [such as a scattered hoard],,,,sorry johno  

[geordiefred]

Greed does strange things to people, me Id have been well pleased with a £75,000 share. But then I never find much anyway 
 

[Stred (Steve)]

50/50 is what we all agree too. 50% for the landowner and 50% for the finder, he then splits with his detecting buddy, whats the problem (greed)

 

[Stred (Steve)]

How much is a good dentist, check the picture out

[jtalbot0001]

Well reading the post it sounds fair, so what was the argument about? 50% to the owner, 50% to the finder, and since the finder was two people, then 50% each of the 50%, IE, quarter of the value. I would jumping up and down with joy with that, cant see what the problem was, sorry, didn't read into it too much if there was...

[avalon]

I bet you 6 months ago those very same people were saying ‘I don’t do it for the money, it’s the history I LOVE!’, find a hoard it all changes, seen it too many times

[Val Beechey]

I'd take a chance on that Avalon.
Mind you I prob. wouldn't have the same hassell cause most of the time  I'm on my own. Just have the Farmer to deal with.

Val