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Message:: [QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 13246711, member: 135271"]The hysteria around repatriation is casting a shadow over honest and legitimate collecting, and it's largely based in ignorance, and an over-inflated sense of zeal, and a desire to advertise one's own moral superiority. The people in that video acting as if they just rescued priceless pieces of Greek culture is really laughable. And the Greek consulate playing his part in the act - as if these common coins worth maybe $2,000 all told matter at all, culturally speaking, to the Greek government - is also comedic. Maybe the saddest part is that merely "believing them to be stolen or looted" was apparently enough to confiscate and return the coins. Any ignorant doofus in the DHS could conceivably "believe" that something was acquired illegitimately - but is there proof, or even reasonable evidence, that this was so? And then there's the whole question of which country has the most "legitimate" claim to these coins, considering how wide-spread they are, and the fact that they were created thousands of years ago by cultures and societies no longer in existence today. Seeing this sort of thing being hyped up by the media (international intrigue?!) is frustrating.[/QUOTE]