[ad_1] A Quarter Shekel coin minted over 2,00O years in the past as an act of revolt in opposition to Rome’s occupation of what's now Israel was repatriated after a decades-long investigation that spanned 5 nations. The coin was looted from the Ella Valley in Israel in 2002, in response to the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace , whose Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU) took over the investigation earlier this 12 months. Because it was plundered, the coin, which is valued at $1m, “circulated throughout the illicit antiquities market in and round Israel” earlier than it was taken to the UK through...