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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 3790866, member: 76965&quot;]Maybe this thread will be shifted under politics by the moderators <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think one has to be sensible about all this. Will the Persians have a claim against the Greeks for the conquest (and plunder) by Alexander and his armies?? Or the Egyptians and Greeks for their ancient artefacts and Elgin marbles from the British or the Mayans from the Spanish etc. etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that even today those who have power or technical expertise would try to AND do get fair or unfair benefit from consumer nations. This is and always has been the law of the jungle that we live in and it won’t change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, a limited exchange or sale of artefacts is not such a bad thing and promotes tourism, understanding of civilisations, knowledge and acceptance of different cultures IMHO. Many of the items may well have been ‘stolen‘ by local smugglers and sold to foreign collectors. In their original country they probably would not command any great importance or value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully I don’t live in a country where this might be required from me but hypothetically........If I was required to return my Ptolemy II coin would I send it to Egypt o Greece??!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also does this mean that a modern one-off coin or unique work of art sold legally to some collector will be required to be returned after a couple of hundred years!!! Quite a ridiculous thought <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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