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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7788018, member: 118780&quot;]To the first point, nope. I already provided an auction in Paris where items sold for big prices. The Dahlem Museum in Berlin has a large Native American exhibit. Europeans are extremely interested in Native American culture because it&#039;s super-interesting to them. When I was a kid, we had an exchange student from Spain who&#039;s top goal was to see Native American culture.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of intercepting and returning these items to the US, look into the pending legislation called the STOP act. If you support it, write your representatives.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve looked into that, and it&#039;s hard to say. Clearly there&#039;s a lot more <i>interest</i> in Native American artifacts than coins. I personally know far more people who collect them, including my own parents who have spent tens of thousands - and those are for still extant/modern artists.</p><p><br /></p><p>From one estimate, the market for Native American Artifacts was listed at $75 million per year, but that sounds low. Given that there&#039;s little centralization to the field, it&#039;s difficult to quantify it. The market for coins overall in the US is $5 billion to $8 billion, but ancient coins is only a tiny fraction of that. US coins is by far the biggest chunk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which one&#039;s higher? I thought it must be Native American art, but I couldn&#039;t locate reliable statistics to say for sure. If you count the <i>global</i> ancient coin market, though, then I would expect that to be bigger because I would <i>think</i> (but this would need to be researched) that the majority of sales of Native American artifacts occur within the US, while the majority of ancient coin sales are in Europe (and I expect Germany).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably true, but I&#039;m not sure what sense it makes to harp on it here. If you don&#039;t like it, write to your politicians: not us.</p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, many European countries have the same reciprocal agreements and are seizing the same coins as the US. Ancient coins do not flow within the EU with the same ease as other products.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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