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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3542479, member: 88829&quot;]That they are cultural artifacts I&#039;m sure is not at question in your comment.&nbsp; The movement of coins across borders and between distinct culture groups is certainly a facet of history and anthropology, and does complicate the question of cultural identity for the material in a findspot.&nbsp; Nonetheless, in the end the coins themselves attest to an origination in a particular culture group, and that is observed by the iconography on the coin itself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All that notwithstanding, the &quot;property&quot; question is not determined solely or even primarily by the physical appearance of the object itself.&nbsp; The question of who &quot;owns&quot; the cultural artifacts (&quot;property&quot;) in a given findspot is made complex by the way these cultural artifacts moved cross-culturally in the course of international commerce.&nbsp; &nbsp; That is the conundrum that we face in &quot;repatriating&quot; unprovenienced material, which has for so long been so abundant in the hobby.&nbsp; But given the power of nations I fear that if it cannot be resolved with justice, then it will be resolved by force.&nbsp; Then for collectors the question would become, who will be seated and who will be standing when the music stops?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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