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<p>[QUOTE="Bolgios, post: 1498494, member: 32894"]Just to make two points. First on the Koson coins, It is always nice when coins and other artifacts are returned to the country of their origin. However, in this case there are a number of unanswered questions about where (and when) the coins actually originated. </p><p><br /></p><p>The original hypothesis that the gold Kosons are medieval (C. PREDA, Istoria monedei în Dacia preromanã, Bucuresti, 1998:232) has more recently been ruled out by chemical analysis (Cojocaru et al, EDXRF and PAA analyses of Dacian gold coins of ‘Koson’ type. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 246, No. 1 (2000) 185.190), which also ruled out a ‘Dacian’ origin, because the gold is not Romanian (Dacian) gold, since the latters features (very little Cu, no Sn and Pd, presence of As, Hg, Te) are missing. The conclusion is that the gold used for the kosons is not ‘Dacian’ gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>So although the gold coins 'Dacian' coins are to be returned to Romania, the question of who actually made these strange coins, that have Roman iconography, a Greek inscription and a Persian weight system, is still a mystery. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Returned-Romanian-Gold-coins-which-4539706.S.139101211?qid=96c03d9a-3936-4424-a0af-a55f9e890340&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_4539706" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Returned-Romanian-Gold-coins-which-4539706.S.139101211?qid=96c03d9a-3936-4424-a0af-a55f9e890340&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_4539706" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Returned-Romanian-Gold-coins-which-4539706.S.139101211?qid=96c03d9a-3936-4424-a0af-a55f9e890340&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=.gmr_4539706</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the Bulgarian coins, the situation is more serious. Recent evidence suggests that many of the 'plundered' coins from Bulgaria are not in fact being sold by 'treasure hunters', but from the museum collections themselves. <a href="http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/celtic-coins-in-bulgarian-museums-1-lovech-region/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/celtic-coins-in-bulgarian-museums-1-lovech-region/" rel="nofollow">http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/celtic-coins-in-bulgarian-museums-1-lovech-region/</a>. So if the coins are returned to Bulgaria, it appears there is a serious chance that they are being returned to the people who sold them in the first place. Back to square 1![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bolgios, post: 1498494, member: 32894"]Just to make two points. First on the Koson coins, It is always nice when coins and other artifacts are returned to the country of their origin. However, in this case there are a number of unanswered questions about where (and when) the coins actually originated. The original hypothesis that the gold Kosons are medieval (C. PREDA, Istoria monedei în Dacia preromanã, Bucuresti, 1998:232) has more recently been ruled out by chemical analysis (Cojocaru et al, EDXRF and PAA analyses of Dacian gold coins of ‘Koson’ type. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 246, No. 1 (2000) 185.190), which also ruled out a ‘Dacian’ origin, because the gold is not Romanian (Dacian) gold, since the latters features (very little Cu, no Sn and Pd, presence of As, Hg, Te) are missing. The conclusion is that the gold used for the kosons is not ‘Dacian’ gold. So although the gold coins 'Dacian' coins are to be returned to Romania, the question of who actually made these strange coins, that have Roman iconography, a Greek inscription and a Persian weight system, is still a mystery. [URL]http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Returned-Romanian-Gold-coins-which-4539706.S.139101211?qid=96c03d9a-3936-4424-a0af-a55f9e890340&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_4539706[/URL] On the Bulgarian coins, the situation is more serious. Recent evidence suggests that many of the 'plundered' coins from Bulgaria are not in fact being sold by 'treasure hunters', but from the museum collections themselves. [URL]http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/celtic-coins-in-bulgarian-museums-1-lovech-region/[/URL]. So if the coins are returned to Bulgaria, it appears there is a serious chance that they are being returned to the people who sold them in the first place. Back to square 1![/QUOTE]
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