https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/an...er-transferred-uw/35JYAA5YPRAW5PGXSPDX5OMY3A/ Looks like they are cracking down on ancient coins coming into the country.Maybe these came directly from Greece? I thought they had to return to the country that they came from.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/co...university-of-washington.375679/#post-6452152 “A private citizen like this would not normally be in possession of something like (ancient coins). That’s immediately suspicious,” said Brian Humphrey, director of field operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. So it’s seems that all the members of this board is look suspicious
Canadian border.... Well, there goes my consignment to the next AMCC :-( Read that too. Unbelievable! And I would think that a professional would do some research before such a statement??
I wonder if Brian is the same guy in this story... https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/29/us/border-patrol-lawsuit-trnd/index.html
Wow, I see in that video some really historically significant 20th century pvc-damaged coins from Afghanistan. Hopefully they were saved from this very dangerous smuggling and will now be stored in a public institution.
Oooooohhhh. So the University can have them, but not a citizen. Ok. Wouldn’t it make sense to give them to a university in the country of origin, from which they came?
Or take a record of the coins and auction it off to collectors who will at least appreciate the coins, rather than sending it to any institutions where they will be locked up for eternity where numismatics is the least of their concerns!
I guess times have changed. I remember going through Customs on return from Europe in 1992. I had a Nero sestertius, purchased in France, in shirt pocket. I was asked to show the object in the pocket. When the Customs agent saw the coin, he asked me what it was. "A sestertius" I replied. He gave it a quizzical look and then handed it back. End of story.
