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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2316317, member: 74282&quot;]While ISIS is certainly making some money off of antiquities I think there are a few other things that should be taken into account if we are to have a real discussion on this issue:</p><ul> <li>ISIS is making significantly more money on oil than they could ever dream of making on antiquities</li> <li>Looting was happening in this region on a large scale well before ISIS moved into the area. ISIS simply took advantage of the existing situation.</li> <li>(Continuing from point 3) I&#039;d wager that a large portion of the looted material is not benefiting ISIS at all, but simply citizens taking advantage of the instability. You can find satellite images online of heavily looted sites and some of them have been under control of the Assad regime the entire time.</li> </ul><p>I certainly think we need to do our part to avoid recently looted artifacts by buying provenanced coins when possible and asking dealers about provenance but we should not assume that every seemingly recent find from the region is funding ISIS(nor should we assume that clean, untoned surfaces equates to a recent find).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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