Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Friday 7 October 2016

The Price of Fondling: Eid Mar Coin Sells for Above Estimate

Bloodthirsty antiquities

Anyone wondering what that Eid Mar round kings-and-battle-history-linked metal disc ('Privately purchased through Antiqva from CNG and Jonathan Kern') sold for, the answer is just 325'000 CHF

Paul Barford at 13:19

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Paul Barford: British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.

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