Monday 26 August 2013

Mallawi Museum Gold Coins Claimed Recovered



Nevine El-Aref, 'Mallawi Museum gold coins recovered', Al-Ahram Monday 26 Aug 2013.

The Tourism and Antiquities Police recovered a collection of 25 gold coins recently looted from Malawi Museum: Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told Ahram Online that with the return of these coins, 125 objects reported missing from the Malawi Museum are now restituted. Along last week, three Graeco-Roman marble and limestone reliefs, bronze statues of the god Djehuti, statues of the god Osiris, a statue of the god Thoth, and papyri inscribed with Demotic texts were all recovered, among others. Now these Roman coins appear from the newspaper's account to be jolly unusual, so it's good to have them back so they can be properly studied:
Ahmed Sharaf, head of the museum section at the MSA explained that the coins all depict the features of a Roman emperor called Valdese in his battle suit, left hand clutching a bunch of flowers while the right one holds a cross.
Valdese the Flower Power Emperor. Or would that be Valentinian and Restitutor Reipublicae and a labarum and Victory? There is a group of over seventy such coins in the list of items missing (page 193 onwards) presumably they were kept together. There were some 166 gold coins stolen in the raid. Where are the rest?

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