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On suspicion of smuggling (the shipments did not contain any documents proving that the sender had a permit from the Department of Cultural Heritage to remove antiquities from Lithuania), officials stopped the shipments.
The antiques will be delivered to the specialists of the Department of Cultural Heritage for examination.
On Saturday, October 10, postal officials at the Vilnius Territorial Customs Airport inspected postal items ready for export. Officials were interested in discovering suspicious antiquities in three of them. Four ancient metal pieces of armor were found in a shipment to a recipient in Great Britain: leggings.
According to customs, an old soldier’s helmet was found in a shipment bound for France. According to preliminary data, it is of Roman origin of Celtic origin montefortino type helmet, used by the Romans as early as the 3rd century. pr. Kr.
In the third shipment, the officers also discovered an old town. According to preliminary estimates, this is an ancient Greek infantry. chalkidinis helmet, first used in ancient Greece around the 6th century. pr. Kr.
At online auctions, the price of these antiques ranges from a few to several thousand euros.
All three shipments were stopped by customs officials on suspicion of illegally shipping antiquities. To export movable cultural property and antiques from Lithuania, a permit is required from the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.
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