David Knell has a thought-provoking post on his
Ancient Heritage blog - thought provoking that is for anyone other than a collector of dugup ancient coins, for it is well-proven that most of them do not think all that much ('
Ancient coins looted? That can't be right!' Saturday, 2 May 2015). He starts off with an Israeli bust of seven dugup coin diggers and then continues with full British sarcasm:
But wait, that can't be right! As many coin dealers of the ACCG persuasion will tell you:
[...] Ancient coins [...] are sort of ... kind of ... in some way ... well ... different.
Not that the US coin dealers stateside will get it, they don't do irony over there.
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