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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 26234492, member: 110226&quot;]Yes, it is impossible to know whether the hoards are coming from one source or more than one.&nbsp; The common thread seems to be Syria, which makes sense, since earlier hoards, notably the 1989 hoard, came from that country.&nbsp; Mixed into all of this are individual finds from the region: Jordan, Israel, West Bank and Gaza.&nbsp; Even there attribution is tenuous at best.&nbsp; Does a Jordan attribution by a seller mean that the coin was acquired from a Jordanian source, or was the find location Jordan, or both?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It also appears evident that coins found in Syria, including owls, enter Jordan before arriving in Israel.&nbsp; Given the tragic history of war and unrest in the region this is to be expected, I think.&nbsp;&nbsp; Indeed there might be a correlation between conflicts and the rise in the number of coins found in hoards and individually that in turn enter the market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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