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**masteryxisman** · 07-09-2010, 11:55 AM

In this undated image made available Thursday July 8, 2010, from British Museum, showing Sam Moorhead, from the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme, holding a coin from a selection found by treasure hunter Dave Crisp in a field near Frome, England. Crisp found a hoard of around 52,500 Roman coins dating from the third century AD, buried in a field using a metal detector in late April 2010. The hoard is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), and includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor. (AP Photo / Somerset County Council, PA)

In this undated photo made available Thursday July 8, 2010, from Britain's Somerset County Council, showing Alan Graham excavating a large pot of coins, which was found in a field near Frome, England, by treasure hunter Dave Crisp. The hoard of around 52,500 Roman coins dating from the third century AD was found buried in a field by Crisp using a metal detector in late April 2010. The hoard, which is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), and includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor. (AP Photo / Somerset County Council, PA)

07-09-2010, 11:55 AM	#3
masteryxisman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 447 Senior Member	In this undated image made available Thursday July 8, 2010, from British Museum, showing Sam Moorhead, from the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme, holding a coin from a selection found by treasure hunter Dave Crisp in a field near Frome, England. Crisp found a hoard of around 52,500 Roman coins dating from the third century AD, buried in a field using a metal detector in late April 2010. The hoard is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), and includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor. (AP Photo / Somerset County Council, PA) In this undated photo made available Thursday July 8, 2010, from Britain's Somerset County Council, showing Alan Graham excavating a large pot of coins, which was found in a field near Frome, England, by treasure hunter Dave Crisp. The hoard of around 52,500 Roman coins dating from the third century AD was found buried in a field by Crisp using a metal detector in late April 2010. The hoard, which is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), and includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor. (AP Photo / Somerset County Council, PA)
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