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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4382979, member: 110350&quot;]Sounds like a plan!&nbsp; I take it that your seller did not disclose the identity of his or her own seller?&nbsp; If you could get that information, it might enable you to trace the provenance back yourself.&nbsp; Again, please keep in mind that the key date under the applicable UNESCO Convention (to which most countries are signatories) is 1970.&nbsp; If you can show that the object was in your country -- and/or had been exported from Syria or Lebanon or some other country of origin -- prior to 1970, or was exported legally after 1970, there should probably be no legal issue as to your right of ownership (or as to your right to sell the object yourself on the antiquities market), should the country of origin demand return of the object.&nbsp; If not, things are murkier.&nbsp; After all, for all you know, this could be the very same medallion missing from the museum in Beirut.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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