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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 15300, member: 57463&quot;]This particular coin was legal.&nbsp; The Egyptian government applied for an export license and that license was granted. thus, this example is legal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Preparing my up-coming talk at the Pittsburgh ANA on Fakes and also upcoming feature articles, I interviewed a public affairs representative from the Secret Service.&nbsp; They are unequivocal that any 1933 Saints were &quot;stolen&quot; from the government.&nbsp; This one was recovered in a &quot;sting&quot; operation.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin demonstrates a wider truth: literature drives prices.&nbsp; Like the 1804 Dollars and the 1913 Liberty Nickels, the 1933 Saint has a lot of writing behind it.&nbsp; The rare mohar, the rare British coins referred to, do not.&nbsp; Of course, it is also true that American markets tend to dominate all numismatic markets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The other side of that coin is that collectors who join clubs like Seated Liberty get to read research articles years before those facts make it into books.&nbsp; Those books provide substantiated new research years before it trickles down to the general collector community.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The third side of the coin is that the prices most collectors pay now for the &quot;cool&quot; material were established by the earliest buyers who created the knowledge that drove the markets to their current levels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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