"Coins from Syria"

The war there has been going on five years, but now freshly surfaced and undocumented coins and jewellery from Syria are restricted from entry into US https://federalregister.gov/a/2016-19491 Not before time. Not that it matters to the antiquities trade, for they have been denying all along that there is a single piece of such material on the international, let alone US, market. The State Department’s Cultural Heritage Centre has produced a special little banner for us on the occasion and to taunt the US no-questions-asked coin trade with its empty amateurish  arguments and pointless posing.