• It is. And coins are small enough and common enough to be found/stolen/bought and easily carried off as loot.

      Plenty of ancient coins were “re-distributed” to the west in the last 20 years from Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew a guy from work who had a small collection he bought while serving.

      I also happened to be visiting a local coin shop and overheard an unintentionally funny conversation about loot.

      Rando: I have a ‘German flag’ that I’m interested in selling. Clerk: Those are pretty common, so we probably can’t give you much. Rando: It’s an OLD ‘German flag’. Clerk: Look, I’m guessing it’s the Nazi one? Those are super common because every soldier brought one back as a souvenir.

      If it’s not already apparent, I like coins. And if I were a common soldier wrapped up in a war, I would absolutely pick up any interesting spare change I came across. Wouldn’t murder anyone for it, but if it looked abandoned? Absolutely.