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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8090792, member: 118780"]IMHO there's a huge difference here. The majority of my coins were bought for less than $200. While it's possible a few weren't obtained in the best way:</p><ul> <li>I have no means of validating how they were obtained</li> <li>Governments are highly unlikely to bother me over such low value coins</li> <li>In the highly unlikely scenario that one was flagged, it would upset me but not set me back severely</li> </ul><p>However, anyone in the market for artifacts over $1M needs to ensure their provenance is tight. For that kind of money, I'd pay someone to validate what the auction house/seller is saying. These kind of artifacts should have been noticed when they were last sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn't sound like this guy cared about all that. Also, from what I read - several of these artifacts can be traced back to museums/sights from which they disappeared.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sad thing is the dollar amount probably is negligible to him. He was literally financing the looting of antiquities (the resulting laws of which cause us all pain), and the punishment was mild.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8090792, member: 118780"]IMHO there's a huge difference here. The majority of my coins were bought for less than $200. While it's possible a few weren't obtained in the best way: [LIST] [*]I have no means of validating how they were obtained [*]Governments are highly unlikely to bother me over such low value coins [*]In the highly unlikely scenario that one was flagged, it would upset me but not set me back severely [/LIST] However, anyone in the market for artifacts over $1M needs to ensure their provenance is tight. For that kind of money, I'd pay someone to validate what the auction house/seller is saying. These kind of artifacts should have been noticed when they were last sold. It doesn't sound like this guy cared about all that. Also, from what I read - several of these artifacts can be traced back to museums/sights from which they disappeared. The sad thing is the dollar amount probably is negligible to him. He was literally financing the looting of antiquities (the resulting laws of which cause us all pain), and the punishment was mild.[/QUOTE]
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