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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3767777, member: 96864&quot;]I asked elsewhere but didn&#039;t get a straight answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it safe to say that the hoard (or hoards) full of owls and Asia Minor staters were illicitly smuggled out of a country like Turkey from which the export of such material is prohibited?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t personally care mind you, and as long as the &quot;Elgin&quot; marbles are kept from where they clearly belong in my mind I won&#039;t be receptive to the moralizing of folk suggesting that one is trafficking in cultural heritage by buying common coins or artifacts from places like Spain, Cyprus or Turkey, but I do wonder how such individuals can tut-tut about a 10 dollar coin or arrowhead but say nothing about the liquidation of millions worth of rare or desirable coins that actually would add to our collective understanding of ancient trade networks and economics if studied as an intact unit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone explain this apparent hypocrisy to me?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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