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The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised the £1.35 million required to purchase the hoard of King Alfred the Great discovered in Oxfordshire in 2015. Support was provided by the National Lottery through a Heritage Lottery Fund, Art Fund and private contributors.

The US Government has published an extensive list of artifacts subject to import restrictions. Peter Tompa summarizes the coins which are concerned.

Shanna Schmidt is member of a task group which is discussing guidelines responsible dealers could adhere to. She says that many dealers already are following these guidelines without any official commitment. These guidelines could be a model for collectors.

A detectorist brought England a sensational discovery: A silver stylus led him to an important Anglo-Saxon settlement which until now remained unknown. An example of an ideal cooperation, as the archaeologist in charge calls it.

When he was levelling the ground in Yeovil / Somerset, Mark Copsey spotted something green in the soil... His discovery turned out to be a hoard consisting of 3,339 coins from Roman Imperial times. Now it been decided that he is entitled to half of the value of this hoard.

The British Museum shows a coins and medals display, ‘Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain’. Until 22 May 2016 this exhibition explores the stories behind the headlines focusing on prehistoric and Romano-British hoards from across the United Kingdom.

The question of who is the true finder of a Roman coin hoard in Lymington, UK, currently keeps officials busy. The case illustrates the rules of etiquette of private metal detectorists.

In 2012 and 2014 two hoards from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD were made in the English county of Cheshire. Museum of Liverpool is now organising a one-day conference on 27 February 2016 casting light on the findings and their historical and numismatic context.

Since September 2015, the French Parliament has been discussing a proposed law which will have serious repercussions for coin collecting as it might discourage discoverers from reporting their finds.

On 10 February 2015 the largest Anglo Saxon coin hoard found since the Treasure Act began was announced. The hoard is composed of around 5,200 Anglo-Saxon silver pennies and was found by a metal-detecting rally.