Silver coins seized at airport

Kolkata: Customs officials at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport confiscated 443 silver coins on Monday night from a passenger who arrived from Myanmar.
Ramesh Kumar (31), a resident of Rajasthan, arrived on an Alliance Air flight and cleared the immigration section. But Customs officials stopped him after the X-ray machine showed he was carrying silver coins in his bag. Kumar did not have a non-antiquity-certificate for carrying the coins.
He was detained after preliminary interrogation by Customs officials who suspect the coins are more than 100 years old and have great antique value.
A passenger carrying old coins abroad is required to deposit three copies of both sides of the coins to the archaeological department of the nation of departure and obtain a non-antiquity certificate from them.
The Customs officials have asked the Archaeological Survey of India to examine the antique value of the coins.
01/08/07 Times of India

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