U.S. Returns Looted Coins to Romania

News July 2, 2013

(National History Museum, Bucharest)
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(National History Museum, Bucharest)

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA—Forty-nine of the thousands of silver coins looted from the ancient Dacian capital of Sarmizegetusa Regia have been returned to Romania. This batch of 2,000-year-old coins was purchased by an antiquities dealer in Chicago, and recovered through a joint investigation conducted by American and Romanian authorities. The coins were put on display at the National History Museum in Bucharest.

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