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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 4484087, member: 10613&quot;]I am wondering how many others at ANS think like the old executive director though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Ute Wartenberg has recently stepped down as the executive director of the American Numismatic Society; but not before submitting a letter in support of restricting coins from Turkey.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOS-2019-0043-0079" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOS-2019-0043-0079" rel="nofollow">https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOS-2019-0043-0079</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a particularly ignorant line --</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Although it is hard to know what exactly is being dug up by looters, it is certain that coins play a significant role, which is clear from online auctions, eBay or Amazon where looted coins from Turkey are offered by the thousands on any given day&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So, according to her, there are thousands of looted coins for sale each day. I think that she has done a huge disservice to the ancient numismatic community.</p><p><br /></p><p>For 4th century LRB collectors, imagine restrictions on coins from Constantinopolis, Cyzicus, Heraclea and Nicomedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems especially egregious that she says &quot;The views expressed in this letter are my own and are not meant to be representative of the American Numismatic Society,&quot; but she still uses ANS letterhead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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