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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7787906, member: 110350&quot;]If a coin is returned to the dealer because customs won&#039;t admit it, any reputable dealer will refund the money to the buyer. There&#039;s no &quot;theft.&quot; Ending up in a warehouse happens with stolen artifacts with no provenance, unless and until the relevant country&#039;s government demands their return. It doesn&#039;t happen with coins bought at mainstream European auctions.&nbsp; Specifically with respect to Italy, coins don&#039;t leave that country legally anymore for the USA in the first place without an export permit. That&#039;s been true for years, even though you don&#039;t seem to be aware of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve been setting up and knocking down a lot of straw men in this thread.&nbsp; And don&#039;t forget that if coins and antiquities are confiscated by U.S. Customs because they&#039;re deemed the cultural heritage of other countries, those countries aren&#039;t imposing anything unilaterally on the U.S. It&#039;s all pursuant to bilateral and multilateral treaties and MOUs to which we agreed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you&#039;re being really dismissive and disingenuous referring to &quot;$10 arrowheads.&quot; There have been at least a couple of very controversial auctions of Native American artifacts in Paris in the last decade with total sales exceeding $1 million each. And the most expensive arrowhead ever sold brought an auction price of $276,000. Not $10. Not that it&#039;s just about dollar value anyway.&nbsp; I wish you&#039;d do some research before saying some of the things you do, like there supposedly being no such thing as cultural heritage laws in the USA.&nbsp; You don&#039;t get to decide that Native American artifacts don&#039;t count.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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