Tag: Kulturgüterschutz

A Manhattan District Attorney returned the world’s most expensive ancient coin to Greece. The reason for this was a falsified provenance. The lawyer Peter K. Tompa is convinced that this case should be of concern to everybody.

New York prosecutors returned an EID MAR aureus to Greece. The world’s most expensive ancient coin was seized in the course of the investigations against coin dealer Richard Beale. The case against Beale is still ongoing.

A dealer in ancient art helped to restitute an ancient Cypriot vase to Cyprus. The object was looted and illegally exported and now came up on the London market. It will be repatriated to Cyprus.