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Libyans battle to protect ancient treasures from looting


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Haxthausen says the museum there has had some of its most valuable and historic exhibits stolen, and to make matters worse for tracking them no photographic documentation has so far come to light.

 

List of missing exhibits: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4

 

More than 7,000 rare and valuable coins dating back to Alexander the Great comprise 90% of the so-called "Benghazi treasures." The other items in the collection are various artifacts from the same period. All of them are uniquely important and utterly irreplaceable.

 

via CNN

 

 

 

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Where does all this stuff go? I know looting is an age old problem and one that's become almost an industry in modern times, but who buys all this stuff?

 

Small portable (ideally but not essentially valuable and/or unique) coins? Anyone who doesn't care about provenance, legality or who the seller is and has enough available funding to build up a collection of coins which no one else has.

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There are plenty of unscrupulous types in this country who would just see a load of scrap metal.

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