Helmets: Investment Manager and Levett

helmets: The items were made between 400BC and 200BC, and Levett worked with Spain's ambassador to Unesco to return the helmets, signing an act of voluntary surrender after reading about the looting of the objects in the Spanish media, according to The Guardian. Levett, a retired investment manager and founder of commodity hedge fund Clive Capital, originally paid 250,000 for the helmets buying seven at auction in Munich in 2008 and one from a London dealer in 2009. The helmets were originally legally bought by the British collector Christian Levett, who when he discovered they had been taken illegally from an archaeological site in Aranda de Moncayo, northern Spain during the 1980s arranged to return them. The items were on display at the Mougins Museum of Classical Art MACM an institution Levett opened in the south of France in 2011. Picasso, Lorca, Capa art reveals fate of exiles who fled Franco's Spain Read more The return is the most significant since 2012, when the US ordered the repatriation to Spain of a 15-tonne haul of coins worth 500m that was taken from the Nuestra Se ora de las Mercedes wreck. In my personal opinion, when it's clear beyond doubt, as in this case, that an object has been illegally looted and illegally exported from a particular source country, then I personally cannot see why anyone would want to retain that piece in their collection, Levett told Artnet News. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.