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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 7850493, member: 75482&quot;][edited] The New York DA, Cyrus Vance Jr, is a long-time cultural property crusader. The mantra of the anti-collecting crowd is that most antiquities are looted and those that aren&#039;t looted are fake. Sadigh has been a known quantity and a topic of discussion for decades. Why now? What effect might the publicity surrounding forgery on this scale have on the legitimate antiquities trade? Note how the twin themes of looting and forgery were skillfully intertwined in the case of Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, prosecuted by Mr. Vance nearly a decade ago:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://online.wsj.com/articles/ancient-greek-coins-are-returned-1407200215" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://online.wsj.com/articles/ancient-greek-coins-are-returned-1407200215" rel="nofollow">https://online.wsj.com/articles/ancient-greek-coins-are-returned-1407200215</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/ancient-coins-returned-to-greece-ending-us-ordeal.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/ancient-coins-returned-to-greece-ending-us-ordeal.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/ancient-coins-returned-to-greece-ending-us-ordeal.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>According to Wikipedia, Mr. Vance is set to retire by the end of this year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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