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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2790974, member: 4910&quot;]The Washington, DC <i>Museum of the Bible</i> is set to open in November, 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>The museum is owned by the wealthy Green family of Oklahoma, which owns the Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Green family has been acquiring ancient artifacts for many years and recently was caught smuggling items from Iraq into the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hobby Lobby company has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges were intentionally mislabeled, federal prosecutors said.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were shipping the artifacts from Israel and the United Arab Emirates to Oklahoma, the US Customs intercepted some of the packages and began the investigation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The company&#039;s deal with the US Government is about ancient clay tablets and not coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the museum does have an ancient coin exhibit, according to people who were given private tours of the museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another slight numismatic connection, attorney Barry Berke of the Kramer Levin law firm, the primary attorney for the Hobby Lobby in the antiquities case, was the attorney for the Switt-Langbord family in the infamous 1933 Double Eagle lawsuit over possession of ten US $20 gold coins allegedly stolen from the Philadelphia Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The company is also reported to be buying items for it&#039;s museum from Ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>One can find out more about this case by entering &quot;Hobby Lobby antiquities&quot; into an internet search engine.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_indianajones_raiders_warehouse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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