The couple face potential charges of illegal trafficking in archaeological objects, smuggling and receiving stolen goods. The other seized objects comprised rare Greek, Roman and Ibero-Roman sculptures, architectural fragments, ceramics and coins, police said, adding that they had been transferred to the Cordoba Archaeological Museum. Its "artistic quality is similar to (the pieces) exhibited in great museums like the Louvre or the Capitoline Museums in Rome," it added.
The "unique and absolutely exceptional" marble bust carved in the first third of the second century AD bears the same features as portraits of imperial princesses of the time, police said in a statement.
Police found the artworks in a storage room in Baena - a town near Cordoba in the southern Andalusia region - and said a married couple had been arrested on suspicion of trying to sell art treasures on the black market. Spanish police on Monday seized a 1,900-year-old Roman marble bust among a trove of 119 archaeological objects found during a raid conducted as part of an investigation to dismantle a trafficking ring. “Holey Dollar.” National Museum of Australia. “The Age of Spanish Discovery and Settlement (1492 – 1652).” Coins and Currency in Colonial America. The only coins remaining are in the possession of people who were rich enough that they did not need to exchange their silver for money at the time of demonetisation thus, these coins are extremely rare to find today. Those coins were mostly melted down and turned into bullion. In 1829, these coins were no longer used as currency, and a large majority of the coins in circulation were exchanged for the actual currency at the time. (Photo credit: National Museum of Australia) The silver was turned into the first currency known in Australia. The outside of the coin as known as the “holey coin,” while the center was called the “dump.” The restamped coins were then used as the currency in New South Wales., and since they were restamped, they weren’t able to be used as international currency. Because they didn’t have that much material to make coins, they cut the center out of each coin so that they could use the centers, resulting in twice the number of coins they would have otherwise. In 1812, Governor Lachlan Macquarie took around 40000 Spanish coins to use for currency. For example, around 1813, in New South Wales, Australia, the first currency they had was made from Spanish silver coins. Many countries have taken the old Spanish coins and cut holes into them or stamped right over them to use as their own currency. Most of the silver that was used came from Potosí, a mountain in Bolivia. Because silver was universally wanted and used, everyone could trade with and for silver. Although it was mainly used and circulated between European Spain and South America, the use of it did go beyond these places. The first currency that was accepted internationally was the Piece of Eight. The coins were able to be split into eight different parts, as the American dollar is able to be split into 100 different parts, hence the name “Piece of Eight.” This has made a lasting impression on the American currency system, as seen by how we call quarters (25-cent pieces) “two bit,” four of which make up eight bits or a dollar.
The Piece of Eight, also known as the Spanish Dollar, is a Spanish coin that was made of silver found in South America.
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