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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4602347, member: 101855"]This is all very disturbing. I had heard about this “previous owner” stuff, but how many run-of-the-mill Roman coins have a list of owners with them that goes back to 1970? Almost none. Dealers have sent me some old envelops and such, but what do they mean? I used to make those up for myself on a typewriter for my American coins, but that was after 1970.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this is going to be the game, then I guess ancient Roman coins are off the table. I guess this will give the FBI the right to walk into a coin show and confiscate dealers’ inventories and every coin in an auction because greedy Italian officials have been given the right to commandeer everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the Italians were really serious about other nationalities learning about their history and heritage, they would back off. I know I’ve learned a lot from my studies over past couple of years, but if I’ve thrown my money away on these coins because you can’t sell without having a foreign government steal them, I guess it’s to time to move to something else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4602347, member: 101855"]This is all very disturbing. I had heard about this “previous owner” stuff, but how many run-of-the-mill Roman coins have a list of owners with them that goes back to 1970? Almost none. Dealers have sent me some old envelops and such, but what do they mean? I used to make those up for myself on a typewriter for my American coins, but that was after 1970. If this is going to be the game, then I guess ancient Roman coins are off the table. I guess this will give the FBI the right to walk into a coin show and confiscate dealers’ inventories and every coin in an auction because greedy Italian officials have been given the right to commandeer everything. If the Italians were really serious about other nationalities learning about their history and heritage, they would back off. I know I’ve learned a lot from my studies over past couple of years, but if I’ve thrown my money away on these coins because you can’t sell without having a foreign government steal them, I guess it’s to time to move to something else.[/QUOTE]
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