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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4606497, member: 110504"]One caveat. Recently, a numismatist and collector told me about having bought a rare drahm of Ardaser II (379-383 ACE). Close inspection revealed first that he was looking at a die match, then the exact specimen, of an example from a "particularly rich hoard" which had been looted from the Kabul Museum. His only (ethical) recourse was to send it back to the seller, whose supplier, "I am afraid [,] just palmed it off to a less scrupulous collector."</p><p>In that kind of context, one can sympathise with attempts from Customs, however belated and even misguided, to monitor this sort of thing. With Afghanistan in the shape it's in, it's really not okay to participate, however passively or even innocently, in the exploitation of its cultural heritage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4606497, member: 110504"]One caveat. Recently, a numismatist and collector told me about having bought a rare drahm of Ardaser II (379-383 ACE). Close inspection revealed first that he was looking at a die match, then the exact specimen, of an example from a "particularly rich hoard" which had been looted from the Kabul Museum. His only (ethical) recourse was to send it back to the seller, whose supplier, "I am afraid [,] just palmed it off to a less scrupulous collector." In that kind of context, one can sympathise with attempts from Customs, however belated and even misguided, to monitor this sort of thing. With Afghanistan in the shape it's in, it's really not okay to participate, however passively or even innocently, in the exploitation of its cultural heritage.[/QUOTE]
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