Advice to the Bardney Hoard Finders from Mr Malony

With regard to the British Treasure process, John Maloney remarks:

Re: Hoard! Update 13/10 - New pics of all!Post by jcmaloney » Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:52 pm
Good luck. Make sure you have decent pictures of each coin as the system has been known to "cherry pick" from hoards and some [siliquae] can be remarkably rare [emoticon].

The 'system'? What kind of talk is that? Has he any hard evidence of this? Has this been reported to the public prosecutor?