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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3126150, member: 82322"]The text of the UNESCO convention is at <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" rel="nofollow">http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a> . It says "... the term `cultural property' means property which, on religious or secular grounds, is specifically designated by each State as being of importance for archaeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or science and which belongs to the following categories: ... (e) antiquities more than one hundred years old, such as inscriptions, coins and engraved seals; ..."</p><p><br /></p><p>For a coin to be a protected cultural good it needs two things. First, it needs to be 100 years old. Second a country needs to designate what is a cultural good. Some countries exempt coins, others exempt coins below some value threshold, but others say every individual coin is important.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 100 year rule on the treaty just means the treaty doesn't cover recent items. For example New Zealand law says the Pattern Waitangi Crown (a silver coin minted in Britain in 1935, depicting Ta ̄mati Wa ̄ka Nene and Governor Hobson signing the Treaty of Waitangi. Only three are known to exist) is a cultural good, but it is not 100 years old so the treaty doesn't cover it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people believe the treaty was intended to cover objects valuable enough to be catalogued. If a coin is so minor that it would sit unrecorded in a museum box if it was turned into local authorities it doesn't deserve treaty protection according to the opinions of many. It is hard to test this theory in a legal setting because how can lawyers in one country debate "importance" designations made in another country in another language?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3126150, member: 82322"]The text of the UNESCO convention is at [url]http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html[/url] . It says "... the term `cultural property' means property which, on religious or secular grounds, is specifically designated by each State as being of importance for archaeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or science and which belongs to the following categories: ... (e) antiquities more than one hundred years old, such as inscriptions, coins and engraved seals; ..." For a coin to be a protected cultural good it needs two things. First, it needs to be 100 years old. Second a country needs to designate what is a cultural good. Some countries exempt coins, others exempt coins below some value threshold, but others say every individual coin is important. The 100 year rule on the treaty just means the treaty doesn't cover recent items. For example New Zealand law says the Pattern Waitangi Crown (a silver coin minted in Britain in 1935, depicting Ta ̄mati Wa ̄ka Nene and Governor Hobson signing the Treaty of Waitangi. Only three are known to exist) is a cultural good, but it is not 100 years old so the treaty doesn't cover it. Many people believe the treaty was intended to cover objects valuable enough to be catalogued. If a coin is so minor that it would sit unrecorded in a museum box if it was turned into local authorities it doesn't deserve treaty protection according to the opinions of many. It is hard to test this theory in a legal setting because how can lawyers in one country debate "importance" designations made in another country in another language?[/QUOTE]
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