'Robbing from the cultural heritage of a nation': Feds return ancient coins - some from 500 BCE - to Greece after they were seized at fly2Ohare
In a nondescript Lombard office building, pieces of ancient Greek history were returned on Wednesday to their rightful owner.
While the coins were small -- some no bigger than a pinkie fingernail -- the gesture was huge. Now, rather than sitting in some private collector's home, the coins can be displayed to residents and tourists in Greece, Koubarakis said. A package marked"antique coins" made them suspicious. It turns out they weren't just antiques -- they were antiquities.Officials from Homeland Security Investigations and Customs and Border Patrol investigated the case.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service The coins may have been stolen from Greece, he said. Antiquities often are looted during times of turmoil, such as World War I and II, he said.
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