It is. And coins are small enough and common enough to be found/stolen/bought and easily carried off as loot.
Plenty of ancient coins were “re-distributed” to the west in the last 20 years from Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew a guy from work who had a small collection he bought while serving.
I also happened to be visiting a local coin shop and overheard an unintentionally funny conversation about loot.
Rando: I have a <lowers voice> ‘German flag’ that I’m interested in selling.
Clerk: Those are pretty common, so we probably can’t give you much.
Rando: It’s an OLD <lowers voice> ‘German flag’.
Clerk: Look, I’m guessing it’s the Nazi one? Those are super common because every soldier brought one back as a souvenir.
If it’s not already apparent, I like coins. And if I were a common soldier wrapped up in a war, I would absolutely pick up any interesting spare change I came across. Wouldn’t murder anyone for it, but if it looked abandoned? Absolutely.
That’s how wars go isn’t it?
It is. And coins are small enough and common enough to be found/stolen/bought and easily carried off as loot.
Plenty of ancient coins were “re-distributed” to the west in the last 20 years from Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew a guy from work who had a small collection he bought while serving.
I also happened to be visiting a local coin shop and overheard an unintentionally funny conversation about loot.
Rando: I have a <lowers voice> ‘German flag’ that I’m interested in selling. Clerk: Those are pretty common, so we probably can’t give you much. Rando: It’s an OLD <lowers voice> ‘German flag’. Clerk: Look, I’m guessing it’s the Nazi one? Those are super common because every soldier brought one back as a souvenir.
If it’s not already apparent, I like coins. And if I were a common soldier wrapped up in a war, I would absolutely pick up any interesting spare change I came across. Wouldn’t murder anyone for it, but if it looked abandoned? Absolutely.
You’re why smart people avoid Beehaw.
Yay I got called a name and everything got solved, carry on soldier.
Uh huh.
What name did you get called?