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<p>[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 4021026, member: 106483"]I'm stuck between both camps. You will learn more by the hoard and its context. But lets be real they are often found by poor people in tough circumstances so very few hoards are likely to be handed in-where they stand a chance of being plundered by the museum staff also. It's quite obvious that most of my collection is from fairly recent coin hoard finds smuggled to Germany thus most probably from Turkey or the Balkans. The stories a coin dealer could tell. If you read "The Gazientap Hoard" by Andrew Meadows and Oliver Houghton (look on academia.edu under Andrew Meadows) they reconstruct four parts of the hoard that separately were recorded by dealers so all is not lost. Where have all those Athens old style tetradrachms that are all over the place come from...rumours have it that 1000's were discovered and are still being hawked around. Does anyone know a dealer who will spill the beans? The story of the Athenian Dekadrachms returned to Turkey is another that needs telling. The thing the documentary missed was what other coins were found with the Dekadrachms.....?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 4021026, member: 106483"]I'm stuck between both camps. You will learn more by the hoard and its context. But lets be real they are often found by poor people in tough circumstances so very few hoards are likely to be handed in-where they stand a chance of being plundered by the museum staff also. It's quite obvious that most of my collection is from fairly recent coin hoard finds smuggled to Germany thus most probably from Turkey or the Balkans. The stories a coin dealer could tell. If you read "The Gazientap Hoard" by Andrew Meadows and Oliver Houghton (look on academia.edu under Andrew Meadows) they reconstruct four parts of the hoard that separately were recorded by dealers so all is not lost. Where have all those Athens old style tetradrachms that are all over the place come from...rumours have it that 1000's were discovered and are still being hawked around. Does anyone know a dealer who will spill the beans? The story of the Athenian Dekadrachms returned to Turkey is another that needs telling. The thing the documentary missed was what other coins were found with the Dekadrachms.....?[/QUOTE]
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