Preface
Some crimes the evidence for them does not disappear with the passage of time, so can a thief, for example, imagine that after more than two thousand years there will come someone who will hold the body of his crime in his hand?
an introduction
The invention of money and its circulation has led to the emergence of new forms of crimes that did not exist during the barter period, including cutting, borrowing, scraping or returning parts of the precious metal coins, this crime is very old and is as old as the age of money itself, and throughout history the state authorities have sought To eliminate it, because it negatively affects the prestige of the state and the reputation and acceptance of its money, and the kings, emperors and caliphs considered that crime and the like a threat to their dominance and financial influence, so they took many measures and measures to reduce money fraud and preserve Its weight and caliber, but the crimes of fraud and counterfeiting of money have continued to our present age.
Crime body
Before us is an ancient coin dating back to the era of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt; Or rather, to its end, as it was minted in Alexandria during the reign of Queen Cleopatra VII; In the name of her brother Ptolemy XV; The last of the Ptolemaic rulers, dated 15 (38/37 BC), and it is of the tetradakhm class, and it has lost nearly a quarter of its supposed weight, as a result of its exposure to ancient shearing and scraping, and I see that the effects of using the tools of crime are clear, we only lack fingerprints The criminal, so that the evidence of the guilty verdict should be completed and the court ruled to transfer his papers to the honorable Mufti !!!!
Parts of the edges of the piece have been cut in the form of two opposite arcs with a tool that I suppose is more like scissors, and the relatively large thickness of the piece exhausts the user of that tool, this is what is shown by the effects of the pressure of that tool on the edges, and there is also a scraping that has been done in the lower half of the piece, especially on Its back erased part of the feet of the eagle and the thunderbolt on which it was standing.
Conclusion
I think it is interesting to study the tools of crime and how they are used, and to let the imagination go to its maximum limits to assume the identity of the criminals, and how they used to get coins to cut parts of them, and then re-exchange them among intact pieces, and how they collected the parts of the stolen silver and melted it and transferred it For alloys or any other jewelry, then they sold them and made illegal profits, and in the end we ask the imagination that we unleashed about their fate !!!
Did the criminals fall into the hands of justice or survived by their actions ?????