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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3532749, member: 39"]Don't know about the legal situation in the US in that regard. But if (!) it is illegal to bring/ship such coins to the US without said "paperwork", then not having it would indeed be a violation of the law. As for imports from third countries, the European Union <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/eu-adopts-new-rules-on-cultural-heritage-imports" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/eu-adopts-new-rules-on-cultural-heritage-imports" rel="nofollow">passed a law</a> last month that does require such documentation. That <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-82-2018-REV-1/en/pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-82-2018-REV-1/en/pdf" rel="nofollow">regulation</a> (PDF, fairly long, legalese) will not become fully effective immediately, as they need to set up an electronic information exchange system first.</p><p><br /></p><p>That may take a while <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and whether it will be doable this way is another question. But the idea is the same - no imports of artifacts from "outside" without ID so to say ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3532749, member: 39"]Don't know about the legal situation in the US in that regard. But if (!) it is illegal to bring/ship such coins to the US without said "paperwork", then not having it would indeed be a violation of the law. As for imports from third countries, the European Union [URL='https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/eu-adopts-new-rules-on-cultural-heritage-imports']passed a law[/URL] last month that does require such documentation. That [URL='https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-82-2018-REV-1/en/pdf']regulation[/URL] (PDF, fairly long, legalese) will not become fully effective immediately, as they need to set up an electronic information exchange system first. That may take a while ;) and whether it will be doable this way is another question. But the idea is the same - no imports of artifacts from "outside" without ID so to say ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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