Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Cultural Heritage Center
U.S. Department of State
301 4th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20547
Dear Sir/Madam,

I feel it is my duty to inform you about the importance of coins in the archaeology and history of any country, coins, as I am sure you know, are struck in special occasions in the history, they are struck when a king takes the seat, when a very important event takes place in a special time, and coins has images of the kings or rulers who ordered the coins, they have inscriptions commemorating the event with historical data, and not speaking about the artistic and material value of each single coin.

All these features combined together in one single coin, makes it a very important historical document, now if all these features are in one coin, and that coin is found on the floor of a building excavated in a good systematic archaeological excavation, an archaeologist and a historian needs nothing more evidence to identify the whole strata of excavation, because he will have all the information on that small coin.

Not speaking about the technical features of each coin that can give us even more information about the economical situation in that specific time.

In the field of Archaeology, coins are considered very important items as well as very important documents that one can relay on in understanding the past with all its complications.

Sir/Madam, I would urge you so much to include the coins , this important historical document in the bilateral agreement between the United State of America and Cyprus, to be a leading country in putting things in the right direction in the field of the Cultural Heritage of mankind that we all need to take care of very urgently.

With best regards.

Dr. Donny George
Former Chairman of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq
Visiting Professor
State University of New York at Stony Brook