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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 8090733, member: 77704"]I think all of us/ break the rules. But govts get away with it/ Napoleon looted artworks from Italy/ now in Louvre. Russian Red Army forces looted Germany/ Hungary/ Poland/ Czehoslovakia/ Romania/ Bulgaria now in Hermitage. The "Koson" AV Staters which most of us own/ where dug up in Romania/ illegally. To which I say, great. Otherwise they would have all ended up in some Bucharest museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was collecting butterflies/ moths....part of the fun was being able to obtain CITES protected specimens, and get them thru customs into my museum drawers. Big govt. likes to have control over every aspect of your life. The Brazilian govt. put people in jail for collecting specimens/ yet they allow complete deforestation/ burning down large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Nowadays, we have foreign govts. trying to prevent "cultural property" from exporation/ this includes coins. Greece recently did this laws to include Byzantine coinage.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 8090733, member: 77704"]I think all of us/ break the rules. But govts get away with it/ Napoleon looted artworks from Italy/ now in Louvre. Russian Red Army forces looted Germany/ Hungary/ Poland/ Czehoslovakia/ Romania/ Bulgaria now in Hermitage. The "Koson" AV Staters which most of us own/ where dug up in Romania/ illegally. To which I say, great. Otherwise they would have all ended up in some Bucharest museum. When I was collecting butterflies/ moths....part of the fun was being able to obtain CITES protected specimens, and get them thru customs into my museum drawers. Big govt. likes to have control over every aspect of your life. The Brazilian govt. put people in jail for collecting specimens/ yet they allow complete deforestation/ burning down large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Nowadays, we have foreign govts. trying to prevent "cultural property" from exporation/ this includes coins. Greece recently did this laws to include Byzantine coinage.:( John[/QUOTE]
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