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Greece to get back BC-era silver coin
 
January 18, 2012
 
 
Greece to get back BC-era silver coin


ATHENS  - Athens has asked Switzerland to return a 480 BC silver coin sold in a Zurich auction for 80,000 euros ($102,000), a newspaper reported on Monday. The silver drachma, showing a soldier and a horse on one face and bearing a royal seal on the other, was put on sale and the Greek police were alerted by an anonymous letter in September 2009, the daily Ta Nea said. Greek authorities contacted Swiss officials, who have ensured the coin will be returned, it said. The coins passed through several hands — notably offshore companies — before landing up in Zurich. A Geneva-based art dealer, who has been convicted for handling smuggled antiques in the past, is suspected of involvement, it said.

 
 
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