Kosmo Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 A very complex story evolved around this bracelets. 15 of them were found by treasure hunters in Sarmizegetusa Regia area. Former PM Adrian Nastase and influential politician Ioan Talpes were accused of buying some of them. 5 of them were recovered (with lots of money) by the culture ministry from outside Romania after ilegal exports and are now in display at the National History Museum. Before that only silver bracelets were found and very few dacian gold jewelry. This is surprising because of the large gold exploatations of dacians. To make things even stranger an young coin collector, known to illegal diggers, claimes that this bracelets are fake. A jeweler friend of his (now deceased) made them from gold coins of Koson and Lisimah type that they had in huge quantities. Selling the coins would have brought down the market so they forged bracelets from real coins. He said that they studied the silver bracelet from the National History Museum and made gold copies of it. Anyway, this are photos of the bracelets in a Culture Ministry request for buying: http://www.cultura.ro/News.aspx?ID=846 (in romanian) this is the proud announcement of the National Museum (english) http://www.mnir.ro/ro/evenimente/2007/ianu.../bracelets.html and the newspaper interview with the coin collector that claims that the bracelets are forged (romanian ) http://www.adevarulonline.ro/articole/brat...enul-meu/301748 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 In today's paper the one who claims that the gold bracelets are forged claimes that the case it's an attempt to convict former PM Adrian Nastase. They also claim that a roman statue of a head of a child from II-III C AD was also made by one of the treasure thiefs. They created this treasures, hide them and then "discover" them when accompanied by clients from Italy and Austria. Police still claims that the objects are dacian and tried to arrest the one who claimed that the bracelets are forged. The bracelets are in the National History Museum and the statue in the local roman museum in Deva. Link to the newspaper article (romanian) with the picture of the statue http://www.adevarulonline.ro/articole/dosa...-nastase/303344 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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