Coin collector busted

A surgeon from Rhode Island--who had ties to RISD and Harvard--pleaded guilty to attempting to sell what he believed to be three silver tetradrachms looted from Sicily. He was secretly recorded saying, "I know this is a fresh coin. This was dug up a few years ago." The coins have since been examined and determined to be "exquisite, extraordinary forgeries, but forgeries nonetheless."
[Seattle Times; more background at Chasing Aphrodite]

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