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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3776265, member: 82322&quot;]Collectors in the United States may not be aware that the governments of Morocco and Yemen have requested Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) that will restrict importing some antiques from those countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t clear if the governments specifically requested coins.&nbsp; Previous MOUs with other countries have included coins.&nbsp; These memorandums are intended to be emergency measure to block importing of looted goods.&nbsp; Unfortunately the MOU&#039;s restrictions are not enforced just on looted goods.&nbsp; They can be applied to anything that doesn&#039;t have a paper trail.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peter Tompa, a lawyer who works with the Ancient Coins Collectors Guild, has written an article about the request that explains how to comment.&nbsp; <a href="http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com/2019/10/short-comment-period-for-proposed-mous.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com/2019/10/short-comment-period-for-proposed-mous.html" rel="nofollow">http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com/2019/10/short-comment-period-for-proposed-mous.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tomorrow is the last day to leave comments on the US government web site. </b> I left comments today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not everyone has seen an ancient coin from Yemen.&nbsp; I have one in my collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009348[/ATTACH] </p><p>HIMYARITES. ‘Amdan Bayyin Yanuf, 2nd century AD. AR Scyphate Quinarius (1.16 gm) of Raidan mint. 13mm</p><p>Obv: Male head right, within torc</p><p>Rev: Himyarite/Sabatean legend <i>ʿMDN | BYN</i> (=<i>ʿaMDaN BaYyiN</i>), (<i>RYDN</i> or <i>RaYDaN</i>); Small male head, <i>YaNaF</i> monogram to left, scepter symbol (or monogram?) to right.</p><p>Ref: Sear, <i>GIC</i> 5717. Munro-Hay 3.2ai. Plant, <i>Greek, Semitic, Asiatic </i>#135.</p><p>ex-Pegasi Numismatics, Auction XXXIV, May 2016, <a href="https://www.agoraauctions.com/pegasi/listing/viewdetail/4356/0/archive" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.agoraauctions.com/pegasi/listing/viewdetail/4356/0/archive" rel="nofollow">lot 243</a> (unsold)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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