From Smithsonian - Roman coins found in Turkey.

Just saw this today. What an amazing find.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...pJobID=1940884689&spReportId=MTk0MDg4NDY4OQS2

 

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It used to be that when coins were discovered in Turkey they were confiscated by the government and disappeared into a black hole. Does anyone know if this is still the case?

 

Probably that is correct, they will all end up in a museum.
I have some coins in my collection/small hoards of 50 or less found. Thankfully it was kept secret and the coins where later sold in auctions/ and are now in personal collections, like mine. These where part of a hoard found in Romania.

 

Were they next to the stuffing?
Sorry
LOVE reading about this find and this particular time period.
(from the article)

The purple doesn't make me think about the color of empirial Rome... but rather if as magician owned these beauties

 

Purple is my fav. colour/ actually it was associated with royalty=coin collecting is/ was the hobby of Kings. Wonder what the Queens where up to

 

If some of the more gossipy Roman historians are to be believed, collecting something else.

 

I always found it somewhat strange that Roman or Greek cons found in Turkey are considered inviolate Turkish cultural heritage, and cannot be exported. [Same non-sequitur goes for lots of other countries, too.] So I hereby declare my Turkish coins [all common 100 piasters] to be inviolate North Carolina cultural heritage, and are never to leave the state. Now I just have to find me a nice North Carolina face jug to bury them in.