Your auction is soaked in blood—give back Ras Desta Damtew’s medal: An open letter to La Galerie Numismatique
The medal was stolen by a Fascist army invader, its proper recipient unlawfully executed, and now your event practically celebrates the theft and murder.
Ras Desta Damtew shortly before his execution
Correction and update: This story has been corrected to reflect the fact that the real organization behind the auction is Galerie Numismatique out of Lausanne, Switzerland. The error is mine for misreading the LiveAuctioneers website (but who shouldn’t be promoting this kind of thing anyway). My thanks to Chr…