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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7839172, member: 110226&quot;]So, having viewed the video, I must say that the technology of digital recognition, coupled with archive digital images, is an interesting approach to establishing provenance of a heretofore coin with little or no provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The presenter does talk about the issue of import and export restrictions of certain ancient coins.&nbsp; There is labyrinth of regulations and laws, stretching over decades, both for the US and internationally that were established to protect against the illegal export of antiquities, including coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, enter this new technology.&nbsp; My questions are these:</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the nature of these laws and how they were written and established, would they allow provenance documentation using digital technology to establish that a given coin meets the criteria of so many years prior to exportation to qualify for legal importation?&nbsp;&nbsp; In other words, if a squabble between a government authority, the seller and the buyer occurs, would proof of provenance based on digital image links be accepted by the authority?&nbsp; Has this ever been tested?&nbsp; Would it be definitive and legally accepted, or would the regulation need to be rewritten to accommodate this technology, provided that governmental and international authorities &quot;buy in&quot;?&nbsp; Would there need to be a test case?</p><p><br /></p><p>So much of law is based on precedent, it seems to me that such a case, at least for the US, would be necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I think it would be nice to have provenance of a coin going back to the early time of the old collections and catalogs.&nbsp; It would certainly make the coin more saleable. So I might actually try using their service once or twice to see the results.&nbsp; With their sleuthing, who knows what might come out?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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