Jordan Museums: Coin Theft was Inside Job

Only now is some poor stewardship and past skulduggery in Jordan's state museums coming to light (Raed Omari, "Ancient coins were replaced with fakes between 2001-2002" Jordan Times Feb 09,2016). Recently it was discovered that the collection of the Citadel Museum in Amman had been tampered with. There were 401 ancient coins, but someone replaced 400 of these priceless pieces with fake ones. In response to lawmakers' questions about this, the government admitted that other cases of this were known, fifteen years ago it was found that fakes were switched for genuine ancient coins at museums in the capital in 2001-2002. These coins had originally been in many museums across the country and had been "probably substituted by fake ones during the distribution of artifacts to museums". The case was referred to judicial authorities but it seems the culprits were not caught. It seems the Jordanian authorities were so embarrassed by this lapse in security and egregious example of poor stewardship that they neglected to publish pictures of  what was stolen so that the legitimate trade could help recover the stolen coins. They obviously also need to put security measures into place to  keep the same thing from happening again.