14th January 2012, 10:36 PM
Royalty? Amazing if that were true. Did the finder ever come forward? I know they hadn't around the time of the sale, but maybe they have since? I read an interesting article by an American antiquity expert which said that the helmet was Iranian or Iraqi rather than Roman. But, no other details seem to have ever emerged about the find area or the circumstances of the find. After the auction, everything just seemed to go quiet and anything you google seems to date back to that period only and nothing new seems to have come out.