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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7848190, member: 115909&quot;]I never thought about this before but I was watching a documentary about the black market antiquities market and they talked to some of the looters involved in it (they wore masks) and among the looted statues, pottery, figurines etc., there was a pile of uncleaned ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not sure what coinage they were exactly but it was in Jordan .</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the whole reason I wrote this post was to see if anyone knows if there is a way to know if the ancient coins we buy were obtained legally and not looted?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know diamonds have a process to certify diamonds mined in conflict free areas so that people buying diamonds don’t end up helping terrorist groups make a profit on their slave labor but is there anything like that with coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully there aren’t too many looted coins out there. I may be a collector but I strongly agree with reporting any archeological find even if I saw a bunch of gold coins I would report it since once that place is disturbed certain knowledge about that culture is lost forever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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