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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8317959, member: 110350&quot;]This is absurd. Of course it&#039;s relevant -- not only relevant but crucial, especially if by reason of such errors the restrictions apply on their face to coins never minted or even circulated in today&#039;s Afghanistan. Because practically speaking, and given the way that I understand some Customs officials confiscate any coins on one of the restriction lists regardless of actual origin -- it isn&#039;t as if there&#039;s any sort of &quot;expert&quot; determination made before Customs takes such actions -- the fact that the restrictions apply in theory only to coins found in archaeological contexts within Afghanistan won&#039;t necessarily prevent broad confiscations of any coin types listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would it be OK if the importation of all pre-1842 British sovereigns were practically impeded because of the theoretical possibility that some of them might have been in the possession of the 4,500 British soldiers lost in the course of&nbsp; the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul during the First Afghan War (memorably recounted in the first <i>Flashman</i> book by George Macdonald Fraser), and subsequently found?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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