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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4001531, member: 89514"]Workers may have made off with say 20,000 of the denarii in the hoard, but the authorities took possession of the remaining 81,000 and divided them between the local museum (Varna on the Black Sea, 12,261 coins) and the capital Sofia (68,783 coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>However for the past 50 years at least, Sofia has been refusing to show its RD coins to numismatists, leading to the suspicion that the museum staff or other government officials have been stealing them and selling them off! I know nothing certain about how many coins are still in Varna and whether numismatists are allowed to consult them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4001531, member: 89514"]Workers may have made off with say 20,000 of the denarii in the hoard, but the authorities took possession of the remaining 81,000 and divided them between the local museum (Varna on the Black Sea, 12,261 coins) and the capital Sofia (68,783 coins). However for the past 50 years at least, Sofia has been refusing to show its RD coins to numismatists, leading to the suspicion that the museum staff or other government officials have been stealing them and selling them off! I know nothing certain about how many coins are still in Varna and whether numismatists are allowed to consult them.[/QUOTE]
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