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A Gift For Polydektes: Form CN 22
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A Gift For Polydektes. Monday, May 04, 2015. This is a completed form CN 22. It is supposed to be attached to the outside of international envelopes containing anything other than letters. This one was attached to an envelope which contained an Indian token I won for ₹220 (about US$3.46) in an eBay.in auction. You must pick up goods worth more than $2,500 in person. I have never imported coins at that level. Warns that the forms must be present accurate. I was surprised to learn from cbp.gov that the...
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heritage | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. September 2, 2011 · 1:23 pm. UNESCO Urges Protection of Libyan Heritage. On August 25, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, urged Libyans and art dealers and collectors around the world to protect Libyan heritage during this period of upheaval. But will these statements have any impact in the absence of real enforcement through international organizations like UNESCO or Interpol? Join 7 other followers. The Modigliani made famous by the Panama papers. nyti&...
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Defending National Treasures Page. April 28, 2011 · 2:24 pm. Yale returns artifacts to Peru. More than 350 objects returned to Peru on Wednesday, March 30. According to Yale Daily News, Peruvian president Alan Garcia was “profoundly satisfied” to see the return of the once disputed artifacts. The next shipment of objects is scheduled for December 2011. Http:/ www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/mar/31/first-artifacts-return-to-peru/. Accessed April 28, 2011). Join 7 other followers. Quoted in the LA Times to...
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Retired Academic Arrested in Israel for Alleged Antiquities Trafficking | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. Yale returns artifacts to Peru. NATO won’t rule out bombing World Heritage Sites in Libya →. May 20, 2011 · 3:14 pm. Retired Academic Arrested in Israel for Alleged Antiquities Trafficking. Lund eared a Doctor of Education degree from Brigham Young University in 1972. He has taught as an adjunct history instructor at several universities in Utah, Washington and California, and Idaho, and is author of. Sources: Daily Herald, May 19, 2011, http:/ bit.ly/lLfUyX. The latest...
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Nazi plunder | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. Category Archives: Nazi plunder. August 24, 2011 · 3:33 pm. It’s About Time: Heirs Challenge MoMA’s Right to Hold Nazi-Era Paintings. On August 23, 2011, Patricia Cohen of. The New York Times. Examined a restitution claim brought against MoMA by the heirs of George Grosz, an Expressionist painter who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. (“Family’s Claim Against MoMA Hinges on Dates”). Merely declare noble intentions; they are non-binding, without the force of law. With the heirs ...
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A Gift For Polydektes: The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
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A Gift For Polydektes. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals. An impressive book on finishing metals is Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe's 1982 The Colouring, Bronzing, and Patination of Metals. It's a big book. It begins with a 13 page Historical Introduction which covers metal finishing in ancient China, Greece, and Rome, throughout history up to the present day. The surface enrichment of coins is briefly mentioned. There is an extensive bibliography. US Customs has pub...
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A Gift For Polydektes: Archaic gorgon/incuse drachms said to be minted at Parion
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A Gift For Polydektes. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Archaic gorgon/incuse drachms said to be minted at Parion. Price and Waggoner, Archaic Greek Coinage: the Asyut hoard. In 475 BC someone buried many silver coins near Asyut in Egypt, including the coin I show above. So we know the type was circulating in 475 BC. But where? Cite just six hoards. No hoards including the type were found anywhere near Parion in Mysia, the supposed mint city given by every cataloger for the past 100 years. I have always been inter...
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A Gift For Polydektes: December 2014
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A Gift For Polydektes. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Fictional bridges on Euro banknotes constructed in the Netherlands. Ldquo;'The European Bank didn't want to use real bridges so I thought it would be funny to claim the bridges and make them real,' [Dutch designer Robin Stam] told Dezeen. Links to this post. Sunday, December 14, 2014. 3D coin scans using focus stacking. On CoinCommunity.com, DVCollector shows a 3D scan of an Athenian tetradrachm. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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A Gift For Polydektes: August 2014
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A Gift For Polydektes. Friday, August 29, 2014. Unusual coin denomination: the spesmilo. I had been previously unfamiliar with the Spesmilo symbol. It apparently was only used on a single 'coin', a 1912 fantasy issue of the Esperanto congress. (The NGC web site lists examples. In MS60 and XF40). According to Wikipedia. The coin was used before the first world war by a few British and Swiss banks. Unicode has assigned the symbol U 20B7 SPESMILO SIGN. Links to this post. A counterfeiter (or middleman) who ...
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A Gift For Polydektes: September 2014
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A Gift For Polydektes. Monday, September 01, 2014. Counterfeit 25 peso coin lab in the Dominican Republic. According to Dominican Today. Police . dismantled an underground laboratory being used for forging 25 peso coins. Following a raid on a house in the Sabana Perdida neighborhood of Santo Domingo North. According to the police report, three machines used for manufacturing false 25 peso coins were seized during the operation, along with two engines, a drying oven and dozens of coins ready for processing.
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