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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8093059, member: 110350&quot;]Of course the police and customs officials exaggerate. The claimed numbers simply don&#039;t add up in terms of the known size of the market -- which is very much a drop in the bucket as compared to the art market as a whole -- or the value of many individual pieces (particularly when it comes to coins, but with respect to antiquities as well, as set forth in the New Yorker article). Steinhardt may be an exception, but he was very much at the high end of purchasers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m finding it somewhat difficult to hold to a middle ground between you and the &quot;storm troopers in black&quot; people, but I&#039;ve been trying. I think I&#039;ve pretty much said what I have to say, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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