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The auction house sold a foreign coin Baldwins


 01/23/2012
News Art and Antiques
We are talking about the sensation of the January auction auction house in Baldwin's New York, which was sold for a record unique coin for numismatic market 3.8 million dollars. Gold stater featuring disheveled head satire was found in Pantikapey (now the city of Kerch, Ukraine). Weight rarity - 9.12 grams, creation date - 350-300 years. BCE.

 At the same coin is in excellent condition, the quote from the brochure Baldwin's: «A small patch worn on the head of satire, the rest ... very good, fantastic style. One of the most fascinating of all ancient Greek coins, and a masterpiece of incredible rarity greatest importance. "

 Residents of Kerch believe the coin came up for auction by illegal means and are going to expose those who had brought the country a national treasure. The catch, they felt, when Baldwin's said that exposes a collection of well-known auction Prospero. This is a large numismatic collection, described in many sources, but nowhere does not indicate that it contains a coin from Panticapaeum. Representatives of the auction house said that the copy they got separated - from Zurich. How was a rarity in Europe, is unknown.

 Ukrainians believe guilty in the scandal of one of the Arab sheikhs who visited Crimea for falconry a few months before the auction. While he was hunting, his entourage toured the city and talked to local people. At the airport baggage Sheikh for diplomatic reasons did not pass the test. Thus, it is possible that the precious metal coin left the Ukraine recently.

http://auctionlot.info/ru/view_395_news.html

Of this scandal, I do not understand one thing, how to sell the coin had been kidnapped in Ukraine (say stolen??) The day before the auction took place in January, when it is described in the book by VA Anokhin "Coin case of the Bosporus," published in 1976
Table № 3 № 97, and in describing the location of the specified rarity in London.
And at the same time Anokhin points out that to date these coins known 17 pc.
Again, journalists grilled facts??