US returns cultural treasures to Iraq - Including a Roman Coin
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From CNN News:
A Roman coin from A.D. 248-250, when the Romans occupied the region.
The coin had been left at the Houston Museum of Natural Science by a
man who said he was a contractor in Iraq.
The museum's curator of anthropology alerted federal authorities.
Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/index.html?hpt=T2
Photograph of coin from US Immigration and Customs (ICE):
The article doesn't identify the coin but it looks like this one from Philip I (Philip the Arab)
Wildwinds ancient coin database - Antioch AE29 BMC 531:
A Roman coin from A.D. 248-250, when the Romans occupied the region.
The coin had been left at the Houston Museum of Natural Science by a
man who said he was a contractor in Iraq.
The museum's curator of anthropology alerted federal authorities.
Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/index.html?hpt=T2
Photograph of coin from US Immigration and Customs (ICE):
The article doesn't identify the coin but it looks like this one from Philip I (Philip the Arab)
Wildwinds ancient coin database - Antioch AE29 BMC 531:
https://www.brianrxm.com
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Maybe my ignorance is showing, but that one doesn't look so special to me.
Then again, that is spoken as a numismatist. Ask me when I'm in my digger role, or "amateur archaeologist" role, and the answer is different, and clear. Cultural treasure doesn't necessarily have anything to do with monetary value.
And every little bit helps, when it comes to mending fences. What a horrible mess that was (and is).
(I'm talking about the museum thing, though one could apply it to the whole war, I guess, if one wanted to stir the political hornet's nest, which I do not.)
So if it originally came from Antioch... shouldn't they be sending it back to Turkey instead? Or maybe Syria...
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.