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Defend Your Hobby Against Impending Import Restrictions
This newsletter contains information on:
Renewal of MOU with Greece
What YOU Can Do
Renewal of MOU with Greece
The State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee is soliciting public comments for the upcoming renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hellenic Republic. Current restrictions exempt certain ancient Greek Trade coins, including Athenian Tetradrachms, Corinthian Staters and Tetradrachms of Alexander the Great and his father, Philip, as well as later Roman Imperial and Byzantine coins. On the other hand, many other ancient Greek coins are restricted, including larger denomination coins of many Greek City states and smaller denomination silver and bronze coins of Alexander and his successors.
What YOU Can Do
Please write CPAC expressing concerns about the current restrictions and any effort to expand the current designated list. Comments should focus on how import restrictions have damaged collecting, the preservation of coins, the study of the history they represent, the appreciation of other cultures, and the people to people contacts collecting brings.
While it’s easy to be cynical that public comments are ignored, silence will be taken as acquiescence about the State Department’s actions which have already diminished the supply of ancient coins available on the market.
Comments are due on or before 11:59 PM on May 9th. For a direct link to comment on the government website, click here, and then click on the blue “Comment Now!” button in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOS-2016-0009-0001For additional background along with suggestions on what to say, see this page on the Cultural Property Observer Blog.
http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com.br/2016/03/please-comment-on-proposed-renewal-of.htmlFor details about what coins are currently restricted, please click here.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-12-01/html/2011-30905.htm All the best,
The Staff at CNG, Inc.