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Message:: [QUOTE="Ryro, post: 8207977, member: 91461"]The concern about the destruction caused by looting is valid. We want to conserve these ancient sites so that we can learn as much as possible from them. And that means excavation by professionals and not smash and grab thieves. We would certainly know more if every coin had a find site attached to it. That said, they are throwing the baby out with the bath water.If ancient coins were not collected then they wouldn't get near the study that they do today. We would learn far less from history and not be using one of our best, untainted, sources if private collectors were no longer allowed to own them.I did get a kick out of that pedantic posters second to last sentence. "It's distasteful and promotes criminality."Kind of like how, once upon a time, people thinking that women voting or homosexuality was "distasteful" or when pot was illegal and certain groups lumped it in with blow and H. Breaking  laws and "Criminality" are important for cultures and societies to learn and leave behind antiquated ideas.And his last sentence, "Can we please ban showing off coins on this sub."It's a question with a period at the end? Not sure I believe this person works on geophysical site finding. I don't know what they would lie about that but people online do all the time. Here's a coin type that could still use study:[ATTACH=full]1439078[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]