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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1344763, member: 39&quot;]That is in line with the 1970 Unesco Convention, see <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html" rel="nofollow">http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html</a></p><p><i>&quot;For the purposes of this Convention, the term &#039;cultural property&#039; 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: (...)</i></p><p><i>(e) antiquities more than one hundred years old, such as inscriptions, coins and engraved seals&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So currently coins from before 1912 would be affected. And yes, basically I think it is legitimate to prevent the illegal &quot;transfer&quot; of cultural heritage. In such a case it may very well be necessary to do some investigation in the country where such items have been brought to.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with coins, however, is that in many cases there is no way to determine where they circulated, when they were bought by whom etc. Also, as said here before, coins are not only &quot;mass products&quot; but supposed to circulate. What makes sense for some objects does not really make sense for others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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