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Message:: [QUOTE="Xavier DDL, post: 4411317, member: 112243"]The funny thing in this story is about the 4 dekadrachms seized by the Israeli police at the Gaza border. These 4 very rare and valuable coins were handled to the Israel Antiquities Authority, an official government institution. Now what? These coins are not the property of Israel, and the law states that Israel must repatriate antiquities seized from smugglers to the country in which they had been looted. But... but... repatriate these exceptional coins to a country Israel does not recognize? No way, over their dead body ! To Iraq, maybe, where the coins have been minted (all Alexander dekadrachms were minted in Babylon) ? Hmmm bad idea. To Macedonia (after all it's Macedonian currency, the coins bear the name of the then king of Macedonia)? Which one, Greece or North Macedonia who are at odds about which land has the right to be called Macedonia? Give these coins an international status like... er... Jerusalem is officially supposed to have? Nooooooooo !... I noticed that in the documentary they say the IAA declined to comment. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]