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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2233461, member: 26302&quot;]I hear you ma&#039;am, especially when we have such documented outliers like the huge Roman gold stash found in Sweden. How the heck can Italians try to say its their &quot;cultural heritage&quot;? One, most people who live in Italy today are not descendants of the ancient Romans, but rather invaders from later periods. Second, even if Italians are Romans, they PAID this money in return for something 2000 years ago. Are they going to return the goods or services? If anything, coins are human kinds cultural heritage, and after seeing coins literally rotting in the basement of museums in Cairo or idiots blowing up historical sites around the world, I am fine with them residing in my collection protect and secure. All of those idiots who follow the liberal, &quot;we stole these from the source countries and they deserve to have them back&quot; argument should take note that some of the antiquities destroyed recently WERE in western museums, but were returned &quot;to the source country&quot;. How did that work out? I am never for looting, but ancient civilization is human kinds history, not the current occupants of a certain place, and I am more comfortable having many pieces in the BM or the Smithsonian than I am only in the source countries where they can get dynamited at any moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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