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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2878682, member: 39"]I like it here (both CT and EU) too, so I will refrain from commenting on that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The issue of whether collecting coins and other objects from "dark sources" supports terrorism is older than the IS. And the "threat" may very well be overestimated or exaggerated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note however that recent legislation in the soon-to-be-ex-member UK is quite similar. See the link to the CCP article in the first sentence of this one: <a href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Facts-About-the-Art-Trade-Terrorism-and-the-Size-of-the-Illicit-Market/4?&id=4923" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Facts-About-the-Art-Trade-Terrorism-and-the-Size-of-the-Illicit-Market/4?&id=4923" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Facts-About-the-Art-Trade-Terrorism-and-the-Size-of-the-Illicit-Market/4?&id=4923</a> So the British Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017 "makes it a crime to deal in unlawfully exported cultural property that a dealer knows or has reason to suspect has been unlawfully exported from an occupied territory".</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2878682, member: 39"]I like it here (both CT and EU) too, so I will refrain from commenting on that. :) The issue of whether collecting coins and other objects from "dark sources" supports terrorism is older than the IS. And the "threat" may very well be overestimated or exaggerated. Note however that recent legislation in the soon-to-be-ex-member UK is quite similar. See the link to the CCP article in the first sentence of this one: [url]http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Facts-About-the-Art-Trade-Terrorism-and-the-Size-of-the-Illicit-Market/4?&id=4923[/url] So the British Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017 "makes it a crime to deal in unlawfully exported cultural property that a dealer knows or has reason to suspect has been unlawfully exported from an occupied territory". Christian[/QUOTE]
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