Mercedes
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Odyssey Marine is "dogged" as "looters" over and over in that article... and claimed damage to site was caused by "Odyssey’s careless techniques".
When in fact this is not true to my knowledge.
From my understanding the site was never disturbed other than the collection of the coins on the surface in plain view and all other treasure that was buried was left alone.
We all now know due to the WikiLeaks that those coins were stripped from OM due to a trade for a single painting that hung in Spain's Museum that a rich family with power pull orchestrated.
When in fact this is not true to my knowledge.
From my understanding the site was never disturbed other than the collection of the coins on the surface in plain view and all other treasure that was buried was left alone.
We all now know due to the WikiLeaks that those coins were stripped from OM due to a trade for a single painting that hung in Spain's Museum that a rich family with power pull orchestrated.
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"A batch of WikiLeaks US Embassy cables released recently showed that the US government had offered to help Spain recover the coins if the Spanish government helped a it recover a French impressionist painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid which had been seized by the Nazis from the relatives of a Jewish-American citizen."
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The bad part about it is that Spain got the coins but the family did not get the painting.
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