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[DRAFT!!!] Scythian Gold - Crimean treasures

A Dutch appeals court has postponed its verdict on the ownership of a collection of gold artifacts from Crimea that was on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014, saying it needed more information.​

On December 14, 2016 a Dutch court ruled that priceless Crimean art treasures loaned to an Amsterdam museum shortly before Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014 should go back to Ukraine. ​Four Crimean museums launched a joint legal bid in November 2014 to force the Allard Pierson Museum to return the historic collection of archaeological artefacts, displayed in an exhibition titled: "The Crimea: Gold and Secrets from the Black Sea."​
A spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called 'The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea', at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam on April 4, 2014. The museum then said it saw no choice but to hold on to a number of highly valuable objects it borrowed from Ukranian museums for the time being, because it was unable to reconcile competing claims from museum. The museum borrowed the items from the museums before Russia annexed the Crimea, and it says returning them now to one side or the other would lead to legal claims. (AP/Peter Dejong) 
1 A spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called 'The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea', at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam on April 4, 2014. The museum then said it saw no choice but to hold on to a number of highly valuable objects it borrowed from Ukranian museums for the time being, because it was unable to reconcile competing claims from museum. The museum borrowed the items from the museums before Russia annexed the Crimea, and it says returning them now to one side or the other would lead to legal claims. (AP/Peter Dejong) 
An picture released by the Allard Pierson Museum shows a 2nd -century AD golden earring with glass inlay and figurine, found in a woman’s grave at the necropolis of Ust-Alma.
2 An picture released by the Allard Pierson Museum shows a 2nd -century AD golden earring with glass inlay and figurine, found in a woman’s grave at the necropolis of Ust-Alma.
A Scythian gold helmet from the fourth century B.C. is displayed as part of the exhibit at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam Friday April 4, 2014. (AP/Peter Dejong)
3 A Scythian gold helmet from the fourth century B.C. is displayed as part of the exhibit at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam Friday April 4, 2014. (AP/Peter Dejong)
The picture dated August 21, 2014 shows objects on display in the exhibition 'Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea' at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. (epa/Bart Maat)
4 The picture dated August 21, 2014 shows objects on display in the exhibition 'Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea' at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. (epa/Bart Maat)

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