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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25338182, member: 91820&quot;]What a shame!&nbsp; Killed by ludicrous cultural property laws that never should be applicable to coins - or anything else, but at the very least not to coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>if I find old colonial coins, arrowheads or other objects from the past buried in my yard why would they belong to the government?&nbsp; I don’t understand how a coin struck in Rome most likely made of silver mined by slaves in Spain 2000 years ago and found on private property in Greece belongs to the Greek government - and the United States is expected to enforce that claim and even possibly put its own citizens in prison to enforce a Greek claim to an ancient coin.&nbsp; The government would even call it a “looted” object. The whole idea is preposterous.</p><p><br /></p><p>if a country wants to have repressive laws involving ancient objects nothing we can do about it but there is no reason to enforce that insanity here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus the laws in places like Greece result in the destruction of ancient objects - if someone is building a house or other development in Greece and they come across an ancient object it is quickly tossed in the sea or some place similar - the alternative being the site is shut down possibly for years while the “archeologists” investigate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or with respect to coins what’s found rots away in some humid museum basement where bronze disease destroys the non-precious metal objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s how countries like Greece protects its cultural property. Or so I have heard from friends and relatives over there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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