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<p>[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 6599938, member: 108985"]I find blanket prohibitions on coin movements based over such a broad classification as all but useless and counterproductive. Instead, that they need is serious regulation and pegree tracking for all coins, worth say, over $50, where the pedigree is recorded in an international database, with certificates. Coins could then be moved and governments can ideintify artifacts of real national cultural imports. Other artifacts can use this as well, but there have been greater efforts for pedigree identification of Rembrandts than coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing, sort of bothers me. Italy needs to come to terms with the fact that it was not a country in 211BC. It more or less came into being March 17, 1861. And nobody cares if a beat up common Republic Ancient coin is dropped into Trevi Fountain or shipped to a collector in SIlican Valley.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 6599938, member: 108985"]I find blanket prohibitions on coin movements based over such a broad classification as all but useless and counterproductive. Instead, that they need is serious regulation and pegree tracking for all coins, worth say, over $50, where the pedigree is recorded in an international database, with certificates. Coins could then be moved and governments can ideintify artifacts of real national cultural imports. Other artifacts can use this as well, but there have been greater efforts for pedigree identification of Rembrandts than coins. One other thing, sort of bothers me. Italy needs to come to terms with the fact that it was not a country in 211BC. It more or less came into being March 17, 1861. And nobody cares if a beat up common Republic Ancient coin is dropped into Trevi Fountain or shipped to a collector in SIlican Valley.[/QUOTE]
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