The dangers of snorkling.......

No mention of what the coins were.......
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4300356/british-dad-turkey-coins-snorkel/

 

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I guess it pays to know the laws of the country your in eh?

 

It wasn't finding them that got him in trouble. It was trying to smuggle them out of the country. He should have known better. After all it is Turkey.

 

wow. that's to bad.

 

At least it was not Spain, Spain will take off your fingers if you try to pull off that crap in their country.

 

Golly gee whiz, sir. Ya mean "finders keepers" ain't universal law?

 

geez fingers.

 

There was a story yesterday in the Egypt Independent about an attempt to smuggle coins out of Egypt. This story is a little different because the passenger was an Egyptian who is accused of planning to sell the coins in Saudi Arabia.

Cairo Airport foils attempt to smuggle Khedival-era antiquities to Saudi Arabia (no byline)

The Cairo International Airport antiques’ unit blocked an attempt by an Egyptian passenger to smuggle a collection of Khedival-era coins, paper currency, contracts, and bonds to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the unit head said in a statement.

(I had to look up "Khedival". It does not mean medieval! It's 1867-1914.)

Head of the Central Administration for Antiquities Units at the Ministry of Antiquities, Ahmed Al-Rawi, said that the smuggler planned to hold an exhibition in Saudi Arabia to sell the antique items.

(I am not sure how high up Al-Rawi is. The article also spells his name Al-Rawy. Wikipedia says the head of the Ministry of State of Antiquities is Khaled El-Anany.)

Director General of the Antiquities Units at Cairo International Airport, Hamdy Hammam, said the coins included 25 Ottoman coins, 50 from the Sultan Hussein Kamel era (1914 – 1917), 74 from the reign of King Fouad (1922 – 1936), 247 from the King Farouk era (1936 – 1952), as well as three Saudi Arabian coins from the reign of King Abdulaziz Al Saud (1932 – 1953) and two pre-1948 Palestinian coins printed.

(Unlike the Turkish case most of these coins are pictured in the newspaper article. They are nearly all low-grade 20th century coins. I would not offer $100 for the lot. There might have been a gold coin but it is not pictured.)

It can be very important to declare the items you are bringing out of a country.

 

These are modern coins. Every collector might have some of them.

 

Joey is going to have a good time in that Turkish prison.

 

"This article sponsored by the Turkish Tourism Industry"
NOT!

 

Since we're in Ancient Forum, we'd better say " Ottoman Tourism Industry " LOL..

 

Snorkeling with a metal detector in the Virgin islands (this last January) I found this pair of ancient Earrings:
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Hey, y'know... those would actually be interesting as earrings (I'd spring for a new zipper though). Solder a post to the back of the foot... good to go. Added to the list of things to try

 

@TIF
Surprisingly.. I thought the same thing. LOL

 

What subliminal message is implied by wearing zipper earrings, I wonder.

 

That they like Elvis Presley jumpsuits?

Or for those of us old enough to remember the late 1990s, maybe they belong to a suicidal alien cult like Heaven's Gate? Those cult types sure love their jumpsuits with zippers.

 

lol deep bleu sea

 

Yeah, something along those lines.