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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2536241, member: 82322&quot;]I am in a similar position.&nbsp; My auction 45 lot shipped July 7th and arrived July 12th.&nbsp; My auction 44 single lot was was marked &quot;paid&quot; August 8th and has not shipped yet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I will sit out auction 47 this weekend and if others are doing the same you might pick up some bargains.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read <a href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/New-German-Cultural-Property-Protection-Act-into-effect/4?&amp;id=4234" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/New-German-Cultural-Property-Protection-Act-into-effect/4?&amp;id=4234" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/New-German-Cultural-Property-Protection-Act-into-effect/4?&amp;id=4234</a> which says &quot;coins are not considered archaeological items if they are available in a great number...&quot;&nbsp; The coin I won is just a provincial bronze, but the cataloger described it as &quot;Extremely Rare&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I predict that in the coming months we will see catalogers altering their vocabulary:</p><p>(nothing) becomes &quot;extremely common&quot;</p><p>&quot;scarce&quot; becomes &quot;common&quot;</p><p>&quot;rare&quot; becomes &quot;scarce&quot;</p><p>&quot;extremely rare&quot; becomes (nothing)</p><p>&quot;unique&quot; becomes &quot;seldom seen&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A New York Times article <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/arts/international/cultural-property-protection-law-comes-under-fire-in-germany.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/arts/international/cultural-property-protection-law-comes-under-fire-in-germany.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/arts/international/cultural-property-protection-law-comes-under-fire-in-germany.html</a> suggests art galleries are allowed to resubmit paintings in other regions of Germany.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see if procedures designed for million-euro paintings work well for 100 euro ancient coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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