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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2974909, member: 82322&quot;][USER=19409]@Gao[/USER] you have some good points.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don’t have to venture into science fiction to talk discuss foreign collections of American goods.&nbsp; Native American goods, such as arrowheads, are collected worldwide today.&nbsp; Most are surface finds but I am sure some are illicitly from burial sites.&nbsp; The commercial trade rarely benefits the descendants of the Native Americans who made the arrowheads.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Burton Berry’s Numismatic Biography he talks about buying coins in the Middle East between the Wars.&nbsp; Originally everyone was friendly to him.&nbsp; The local antiquarians were happy he took an interest in their culture.&nbsp; After World War II the souk traders started getting word of the high price westerners got auctioning ancient coins in Geneva.&nbsp; There were a lot of hard feelings because the Europeans were getting the lion’s share of the profits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today with the Internet the playing field is leveling.&nbsp; I hope that as the Arab Spring takes root it will become legal for everyone to own a few ancient coins.&nbsp; I hope the digital resources we are creating are helping collectors in the Mediterranean learn about their own ancient cultures.&nbsp; I hope online price guides make it impossible for anyone to trick easterners the way Barry’s contemporaries did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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