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<p>[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3530869, member: 91240"][USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER], good points, but hard to do. Although I keep provenances for every coin that I buy, previous owners have not always done so, and they are irretrievably lost. I even have some coins with collector's envelopes which are clearly at least 80 years old, but I can't 'prove' how they got from there to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides that, there is the fact that there is absolutely zero evidence that these coins were found within the borders of modern Greece, or that they were excavated or exported illegally. I think that people who knowingly loot or damage archaeological sites should be punished (I am an archaeology student, and I have encountered sites damaged before looters before we got to them), but this is preposterous and sadly too common among many of my[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3530869, member: 91240"][USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER], good points, but hard to do. Although I keep provenances for every coin that I buy, previous owners have not always done so, and they are irretrievably lost. I even have some coins with collector's envelopes which are clearly at least 80 years old, but I can't 'prove' how they got from there to me. Besides that, there is the fact that there is absolutely zero evidence that these coins were found within the borders of modern Greece, or that they were excavated or exported illegally. I think that people who knowingly loot or damage archaeological sites should be punished (I am an archaeology student, and I have encountered sites damaged before looters before we got to them), but this is preposterous and sadly too common among many of my[/QUOTE]
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