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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8012320, member: 74282&quot;]I would be willing to lend coins to an institution like the ANA&#039;s Money Museum, because I trust their views on cultural property and I trust their ability to handle ancient coins. The ANA not only has existing holdings of ancient coins but they consistently speak out against MOUs and in my opinion are the perfect example of a pro-collector numismatic institution. Visitors to the ANA museum also actually appreciate coins, which would make me feel better about not having them for some period of time. I would not be willing to lend anything ancient to any institution that doesn&#039;t already have a collection of some number of ancient objects or whose views on cultural property could be compromised in any way.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I would want to be absolutely sure that my ducks are in a row regarding provenance for anything I was lending. Most museums today don&#039;t want anything that doesn&#039;t have a pre-1970 provenance anyways, so they&#039;re unlikely to let you lend them something that has any realistic possibility of being seized but even if they were willing to, it would be a good idea to make sure that at a minimum you can prove the object isn&#039;t fresh. Obviously no one in the US is going around trying to seize all unprovenanced coins, but there have been enough sporadic ancient coin seizures by customs over the past few years that obviously there are at least a handful of people willing to investigate these things and putting a coin in a museum on display is a wonderful way to make it rise to the attention of people who otherwise would have ignored it. There was actually a ceremony recently where customs officials came together with the Greek ambassador to celebrate the repatriation of <a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1165110/ancient-coin-repatriated-to-greece-by-us-authorities/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1165110/ancient-coin-repatriated-to-greece-by-us-authorities/" rel="nofollow">a single worn stater of Aegina</a> which goes to show that they&#039;re not just interested in stuff on the level of the Euphronios Krater.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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