The tenor of comments on the "John Hooker FSA" blog is up to its usual metal detectory standards. British Treasure hunter John Howland commenting on an extensive show-and-tell exposition of the coinage of Taras:
Hi John: Great series mate. Presumably there are no 'new coin types' coming onto the market? That is, legal coins from excavations and similar sources. Bearing in mind Greece's draconian heritage laws, there are no 'new coin types' coming onto the market place as a result of amateur metal detecting treasure hunters?
The problem is that policies of attempting to get 'best practice' through outreach to (education of) a milieu with many members who showed themselves at an early age to be inept at gaining any kind of education or even basic literacy skills is doomed to fail. Yet the PAS keeps on pretending to try. What kind of a national "policy" is that?