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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 2201699, member: 19409&quot;]I&#039;m not saying it never happens (and I appreciate the work you put into this), but I&#039;ve very rarely been given any information on a coin beyond where I immediately purchased it from, whether it&#039;s been Ebay, VCoins, or a dealer I interacted with in person.&nbsp; I think I have 2 or 3 coins in my collection that have any such information.&nbsp; And I&#039;m not counting the uncleaned ones that were only described as &quot;Spanish,&quot; as if that tells me anything.&nbsp; There&#039;s probably a divide between high end stuff and what&#039;s in my price range, but no documentation beyond an attribution has been the norm for me.&nbsp; And archaeological sites that provide us with bargain basement antoniniani are no less valuable than the ones that give us decadrachms.</p><p><br /></p><p>The easiest way for the coin collecting community to prevent these laws from happening is to make them unnecessary.&nbsp; If I had the influence to change the community, I&#039;d pressure dealers to adopt a code of ethics stating that they would refuse to sell coins they couldn&#039;t account for in 2015 or earlier and to provide some sort of documentation for where they were then.&nbsp; Everyone would still be able to sell their current inventories, so it wouldn&#039;t instantly ruin anyone&#039;s business, but it would hinder sales of coins from future undocumented digs.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t stop everyone from doing it, but it would help, and it would give us something to point to when legislators question our activities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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