I note that the next number of the Journal of Field Archaeology, now published by Maney, will be including an important article on ancient coins. I am grateful to Nathan Elkins for sending me a digital offprint.
For those who would like to dismiss this research as appearing in an 'obscure journal' (and only a Washington lobbyist could write this!), can I direct readers of LM to the blibliometric data that places JFA in the first quartile of archaeological journals?
Nathan T. Elkins, Ancient coins, find spots, and import
restrictions: A critique of arguments made in the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild’s "test case", Journal of Field Archaeology 40, 2 (2015) 237-43.
Abstract
The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) has launched multiple legal challenges aimed at undermining
import restrictions on ancient coins into the United States in bilateral agreements with foreign countries.
One key component of the ACCG’s argument is that the State Department has inappropriately restricted
certain types of coins according to where they were made rather than where they are found, as mandated
by the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. Although the ACCG has thus far been
unsuccessful, it has not been pointed out that existing import restrictions on coins, in fact, have been written
to include coins that tended to circulate locally and that are found primarily within the borders of the country
with which the bilateral agreement is made. The ACCG’s argument is thus on shaky ground. As the ACCG
continues to press ahead with new litigation, it is worth drawing attention to realities and probabilities of
ancient coin circulation as they pertain to protected coins.
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