COIN COLLECTOR'S ADVOCACY GROUP FORMED Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 33, August 15, 2004, Article 10
COIN COLLECTOR'S ADVOCACY GROUP FORMED
Arthur Shippee forwarded this note from the Explorator
mailing list:Collectors of ancient coins, noting the recent proliferation of
cultural property legislation whose hastily drafted and poorly
thought out provisions could (probably unintentionally) cause
very serious problems for coin collectors, have founded the
Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. The goal of this guild is to
foster an environment in which the general public can continue
to confidently and legally acquire and hold, for personal or
professional use, any numismatic item of historical interest
regardless of date or place of origin.Some objectives of the ACCG are:
* To lobby effectively against the imposition of import
restrictions on coins of any age or place.* To seek, in the event of adverse legislative action, a
federal court ruling affirming the right of individuals to
collect objects from the past.* To fight for the continued existence in the U.S. of a
free market for all collector coins.* To bolster legitimacy of the ancient coin market through
establishment of a national dealer code of ethics.The ACCG website address is ACCG.
There has been a huge response to the announcement of
this new advocacy group's formation, and membership of
the ACCG is rapidly growing as coin collectors, alarmed
about efforts to portray collecting of antiquities as immoral
and unethical, flock to join.- 2004-08-15
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