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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2202383, member: 39&quot;]So? Cultural heritage protection laws affect people anywhere, not just those who collect coins from XYZ because some ancestor came from there. May well be that yours or mine were ancient Romans. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> May also be that the US government does not care about whether archaeological objects are &quot;picked&quot; in America and then sold to private collectors in some other country. But that does and should not make illegal exports elsewhere legal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, nobody can control tomb robbery and art trafficking completely. The question is whether that means we should simply lean back and say that therefore we do not need anything like that, and basically encourage the criminals. I do not think so. However, as I wrote before, there is an important difference between unique or very rare objects on one hand and &quot;mass products&quot; such as coins on the other hand. This differentiation has not been made in the proposed law, and coin collectors/dealers have not been heard so far. Hope this petition will change that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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