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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3984246, member: 96864&quot;]Hah, yes indeed that&#039;s a good observation. My Greek Cypriot friend would have similar qualms with the Turkish oversight of cultural resources in occupied northern Cyprus, an issue which is quite personal for those I consider to be the rightful residents and heirs of the island&#039;s rich history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The anecdote detailing your mentor&#039;s observations and experience certainly demonstrates that there is a practical albeit underhanded collective personal financial interest at stake for some classes of professionals, but there must be other, presumably far-sighted transgenerational agendas working in concert toward the same immediate goal. Two people can sleep in the same bed but dream different dreams, as they say.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Orwell observed; &quot;Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.&quot; Given the clear Turkish (and general Globalist/Post-Nationalist) predilection toward rewriting, obscuring and skewing history, I wonder if this inconvenience to us collectors isn&#039;t part of a more sinister long-term scheme to deracinate peoples by severing them from <i>their</i> unique history, values and identity in favor of a centrally curated false national or global identity in order to create a more pliable and ignorant, interchangeable populace. It takes longer, but in this century even the Turks are likely to find ethnocide superior to genocide. I dunno if that strikes a chord with anyone or merely reeks of tinfoil but machinations like this get the ole noggin joggin&#039; in that direction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apologies for going off on a tangent, so here&#039;s a big 28 gram Justinian follis I&#039;m waiting to get under my coin-cleaning microscope:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1049116[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1049117[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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