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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1344627, member: 26302&quot;]It is truly sad. The point that needs to be made to your Congressmen, (and if you do not contact thier Washingtion offices after reading this, shame on you), is that countries have the right to do what they wish WITHIN THEIR OWN BORDERS. Once a coin is in the US, there literally is no way of knowing where it was found. Why on EARTH are our law enforcement officials trying to enforce another countries laws? Why are we trying enforcing laws that violate our Constitution, namely right to private property?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are a world coin collector, or a US collector, please do not think this does not affect you. If the Chinese now have a limit of about 1900 the coins that are their &quot;cultural heritage&quot;, what will stop them from moving that date up to 2000 someday? What is to stop Massachusetts from claiming all colonial coins from that state is their property? This issue is all about the rights of all coin collectors to be able to own coins they have legally purchased. If these actions continue, all coin collections in the US are subject to government confiscation at the whim of the US government.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. I do not actively collect any of the coins subject to the current laws, so please do not think this is me just protecting my own &quot;turf&quot;. This is the most serious issue in coin collecting today, and most collectors are just ignoring it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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