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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 24481868, member: 135271&quot;]Yes, an important Roman civil war that had nothing whatever to do with the classical Greek history and culture you were talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>The EID MAR coin was struck by a Roman general for his supporters, using Roman imagery (pileus) and Roman Latin inscriptions. There is no Greek connection at all. If you want to assign modern-day cultural heirs then manifestly it&#039;s Italy in this case.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is simply that while the Greek government may have a perfectly legitimate legal claim to the coin, if you&#039;re going to play the whose-cultural-property-is-it game, then clearly in this case it&#039;s not the Greek government and they shouldn&#039;t be getting the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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