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  • Always Check Under The Bed

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 09:50:10 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://greekreporter.com/2025/03/03/ancient-greek-crown-gold-found-under-bed/

    In Somerset, England, a British pensioner who wished to remain
    anonymous found in 2016 a 2,300-year-old ancient Greek crown
    packed up in some crumpled-up newspapers in an old cardboard
    box under his bed.

    According to Daily Mail, which interviewed the man, he had
    had many possessions left to him by his grandfather, who was
    a seasoned world traveler and collector.

    “I inherited quite a lot of things from him and I just put this
    to one side for almost a decade and didn’t really think anything
    of it,” the elderly man told the Daily Mail.

    . . .

    Looks to be a VERY nice piece.

    The Greeks are gonna want it BACK. Did Grandpa
    get it off some old NAZI looter ?

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Mar 3 14:59:45 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    c186282 <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    https://greekreporter.com/2025/03/03/ancient-greek-crown-gold-found-und er-bed/

    In Somerset, England, a British pensioner who wished to remain
    anonymous found in 2016 a 2,300-year-old ancient Greek crown
    packed up in some crumpled-up newspapers in an old cardboard
    box under his bed.

    According to Daily Mail, which interviewed the man, he had
    had many possessions left to him by his grandfather, who was
    a seasoned world traveler and collector.

    “I inherited quite a lot of things from him and I just put this
    to one side for almost a decade and didn’t really think anything
    of it,” the elderly man told the Daily Mail.

    . . .

    Looks to be a VERY nice piece.

    The Greeks are gonna want it BACK. Did Grandpa
    get it off some old NAZI looter ?



    The UK (thankfully) has a very
    strict antiquities law, ancient
    artifacts have to be reported
    to the government, sometimes to
    be returned to the finder,
    sometimes put in a museum with
    stipend paid to the finder.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to Mitchell Holman on Mon Mar 3 12:53:54 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    On 3/3/25 9:59 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
    c186282 <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    https://greekreporter.com/2025/03/03/ancient-greek-crown-gold-found-und
    er-bed/

    In Somerset, England, a British pensioner who wished to remain
    anonymous found in 2016 a 2,300-year-old ancient Greek crown
    packed up in some crumpled-up newspapers in an old cardboard
    box under his bed.

    According to Daily Mail, which interviewed the man, he had
    had many possessions left to him by his grandfather, who was
    a seasoned world traveler and collector.

    “I inherited quite a lot of things from him and I just put this
    to one side for almost a decade and didn’t really think anything
    of it,” the elderly man told the Daily Mail.

    . . .

    Looks to be a VERY nice piece.

    The Greeks are gonna want it BACK. Did Grandpa
    get it off some old NAZI looter ?



    The UK (thankfully) has a very
    strict antiquities law, ancient
    artifacts have to be reported
    to the government, sometimes to
    be returned to the finder,
    sometimes put in a museum with
    stipend paid to the finder.

    Clearly the UK doesn't think it or its people
    deserve any 'treasure' ... it's self-loathing.

    As for THIS particular artifact, it seems to have
    been brought in during the 1950s - so do the
    current laws apply ?

    And the flip on the flip - the British Empire did
    a LOT of outright looting ... but the flip on that
    is that so has every empire. Maybe the ancient
    Greeks stole the gold, or entire crown, from
    somebody else, who stole it from somebody else ???

    Lots of ways to think about this.

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