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Message:: [QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7850222, member: 118780"]I see. <a href="https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RedList_Afghanistan_english.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RedList_Afghanistan_english.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> the actual red list for anyone curious. This is very vague, especially since several of those coins didn't primarily circulate in Afghanistan. From my reading of the article, though, the subject was denied entry into Canada (reasons not provided), which made US customs suspicious on his reentry. Having 51 ancient coins on hand then didn't help his cause. FWIW, this is the closest entry point into Canada for me and they're known to be a pita. My brother-in-law was interrogated for three hours there on reentry into the US because he'd previously travelled to Uzbekistan (he's a US citizen). A friend from Mexico, who was working at Intel and had a legal permit to work in the US, was immediately deported because when asked whether he'd ever like to live in the US, he responded "maybe, some day" and that answer was against his work permit. It's easy to speculate since the specific facts aren't known. Why was he denied entry to Canada? Why was he travelling with a small hoard of ancient coins? Why didn't he have documentation on their import (US customs sends import forms that he could have referenced)? Did customs strong arm him (threaten him with deportation) in exchange for releasing the coins? Therefore, while it's difficult to understand the actual facts of this case, the peculiarity of the seizure enforces the truth that this is unlikely (though not impossible) to happen to the majority of us.[/QUOTE]

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