Ancient Coin Collectors Guild

Each year I rejoin the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild, and today was the day. I got this e-mail from them and am showing it to you.

Support Ancient Coin Collecting now and for the future!

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Dear ACCG Member and Supporter

The mindless attacks against legitimate collectors of ancient coins have not abated over the past year. Media claims of collector markets being flooded with looted material from war torn lands are endless and outrageously inaccurate. They continue to advance the baseless claims of radical activists who are ideologically opposed to private collecting of antiquities. ACCG continues to campaign diligently in Washington for the rights of collectors that are protected by existing law and to oppose new legislation that threatens to undermine those rights.

To that end, we are entering our eighth year of litigation in Federal court and have every intention of staying the course until justice is served. We appreciate your help in the past and hope that you will continue that support and help us to ultimately prevail. If you have already sent in your 2017 ACCG membership renewal, thank you for your resolve. If not, please send your Paypal payment to JOIN@ACCG.US or a check/moneyorder to:

Ancient Coin Collectors Guild
P.O. Box 911
Gainesville, MO 65655

Friend = $35.00
Patron = $250.00

With continued thanks for your help and best wishes for your long term enjoyment of our wonderful hobby,
Wayne

Wayne G. Sayles
President

 

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Yeah, I got an email earlier today.

 

huh, i'm a Moman, but this is the 1st i've heard of this group. but i don't get out much and live in the hills close to jed clampets cabin

 

This is no joke if you live in the United States.

 

You have all heard of Wayne Sayles, former published of the Celator (The journal of Ancient Coins) and author of the most-popular series of introductory books on ancient coins, who is president of the Guild. Coins are being reinterpreted as "cultural property" and getting harder to import. Who is on our side? The ACCG!

See their (our) website here: http://www.accg.us/home.aspx

I want to see some responses that say "I joined" or "I renewed."

 

Jed Clampett collected ancients.

 

(Cue c.1960s stock footage of Krusty the Klown
"I heartily endorse this event or product."

But seriously, the ACCG is doing good work, I am sending in my check today and I suggest all ancient coin collectors who live in the US should also donate.

 

I didn't actually say it in my earlier post, but I renewed.

 

fellow coin collectors, i meant no dis respect to ACCG, i'm am in the hills of Mo. and glad to see we have such organisations here.

 

Actually, perhaps ironically, Wayne Sayles - head of the ACCG - lives in the Missouri Ozarks.

A little tribute to Wayne I posted at CCF here: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=274011

I will renew my ACCG membership within the next week.

 

he sounds like my kind o people, i'll become a member too. always support those in our neck of the woods. coins, hills and otherwise.

 

I'll join up for sure. Thanks for posting this.

 

i just contributed to the director@accg. thanks to your post

 

I'm a Patron of ACCG.

Radical archaelogists are not just a problem for U.S. importation of ancient coins. They are aiming to impact European trade as well. The recently enacted German export law is an example. So, I would urge all collectors from all countries to support the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild!

 

i've heard from my friend collectors in other countries saying they had to give up their coins or not got them for this reason.

 

@Valentinian - good post, sent my renewal today also.
I feel like DQ fighting windmills when I read about how easily coin import restrictions happen.

I think ACCG gives us a better voice than we have as individuals.

 

One of my first tasks of the new year is to renew my ACCG membership, figure it is too important to leave until later, when I might forget.

 

Renewed

 

There is a movement in the us among the archeological circles to ban private ownership of ancient art and coins. This goes way beyond import laws to confiscating your coins and art.

 

Joined yesterday. Saw Wayne speak a few years ago. Nice and knowledgable guy!