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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2789861, member: 82322&quot;]The privately held company is returning the 5,500 artifacts they purchased for $1,600,000 and pay the US government $3,000,000 to make the charges go away.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prosecutor said the artifacts were smuggled.&nbsp; They were marked as &quot;tile samples&quot; or as &quot;clay or ceramic tiles&quot;.&nbsp; The packages had labels falsely identifying their country of origin as Turkey not Iraq.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please remember this next time you receive a package containing coins declared as &quot;metal tokens&quot; without a true value or origin on the customs form.&nbsp; My understanding is that imported coins should be labeled as numismatic antiques, with the origin set to the minting place, and the true value declared on the customers paperwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that shipping costs and risks of theft may rise when packages are declared correctly on the CN-22.&nbsp; Yet if customs forms are not specific prosecutors consider it smuggling.&nbsp; Be aware.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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