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Posted on 10/25/2025 9:02:41 AM PDT by fidelis
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Very well preserved, perhaps uniquely so.
It's actually very easy, if experts are allowed to examine it closely.....and yes, there are plenty of experts. They can look at the manufacture methods and take tiny samples of the metal to determine alloys.
Just let someone who makes replicas exam It closely.
“I like Mossy Oak pattern better for that area of Cimmeria...”
Pontius Pilate: So... You dawe to waid us?
Brian: To what, sir?
Pontius Pilate: Stwike him, Centuwion, vewy woughly!
Biggus Dickus? The man who raped Thrace thrice? WOW!
Wouldn't the be Italy?
I think I have a couple in my closet... If somebody wants one, I can sell it for a much cheaper price.
From the article: "The auction house describes it as 'museum-quality' and claims the object was legally exported after “rigorous government approval.”
Uh no. Exporting stolen property is not legal. They're trying to save their asses for putting it up for auction. Did anyone with the auction house know it was stolen? Were they a part of the theft? This crap happens all the time...groups of people around the world colluding to steal the treasures of other countries and selling them off to private owners. They have to suspect everyone for now.
Britain does. When an item is found, and a museum can't afford to buy the item outright for its listed value, they let the item go up for auction, and if someone living outside the UK bids and wins the item, the government declares it treasure, and stops it from being exported.
One such instance was a turqoise ring owned by Jane Austin. The British Museum couldn't afford the amount to purchase it outright, so it went up for auction. American singer Kelly Clarkson won the bid. The UK government declared it treasure and banned it from being exported from the country. Eventually the museum came up with the auction amount and paid Clarkson for the ring. I'm sure she would have preferred having the ring, but she accepted the money, and the ring went to the British Museum. I think it's completely unfair for the UK government to pull this crap. If a museum, British resident, or the government itself can't afford to buy these relics once they go on the market, then banning its export after someone who doesn't live in the country wins it, seems thuggish to me. Congratulations!! You won the bid, but you can't have the item, because you don't live here.
The nation of Serbia and the city of Belgrade did not exist then.
Who's to say Appius or some other Roman in a position of authority didn't give it to someone in some country other than Serbia? Or sell it? Or that it has anything to do with Serbia?
It seems to me that the burden is on the Serbian Government to prove that the helmet belongs to them.
If I find a helmet buried in my back yard inscribed with "Appius of Legio IV Flavia Felix", I think the Government of Serbia would have to prove it's theirs if they want to claim it.
I said that I wish the Brits or the French had gotten the Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo before they got damaged and that I was glad that they had them.
Now however, as France and the UK sink deeper and deeper into the quicksand of decadence, the priceless antiquities may well be safer back in Greece.
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