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When It Comes to Ancient Coins, How Old Is Old Enough ?
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coins Collecting Blog ...... The classification of cultures generally tracks along two interrelated lines: chronological and geographical. For centuries, collectors struggled...
Tips for Buyers of Ancient Coins
By Wayne Sayles ..... Some Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) members have asked what they can do to assure that the purchases they make are...
Cultural Property Overreach Encroaches on Collectors’ Rights
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting .... Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire, an apologist for cultural property nationalists and a critic of private...
Tips for Buyers of Ancient Coins
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting ..... Some ACCG (Ancient Coin Collectors Guild) members have asked what they can do to assure that the...
Cultural Property Enforcement – Ancient Artifact Smuggling now “impossible” in Egypt
Army special forces stand at the entrance to the Egyptian Museum By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog.... A Cairo Post article of June 21,...
Ancient Coins – Collecting Strategies – Surviving the chase
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ……….. Once I heard about a collector who didn't care what he had to pay for a...
Coins and Cultural Property Management – Missing the Point
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ……….. Most in the world who have followed the events of recent years in the field of...
Coins and the Law : Media rush to judgement challenged
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ……….. Editors Note: It is shocking how ignorant and misinformed the media is when it comes to...
Coins and the Law – On Second Thought—a chance for rule of law?
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ……….. The SAFE endorsement of Britain's Article 11c of Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 at first blush...
Daily Record: Five years on, test case on coins tries USAO’s patience
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ……….. The Daily Record, a news service for Maryland based business and legal professions, ran an interesting...
Discussion on Egyptian Coins at State Department MOU hearing leaves room for optimism
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog ........... The public session of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee hearing to consider a potential Memorandum of...
Egyptian Coins and New School Archaeology
By Wayne Sales.... As the State Department hearing on a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Egypt approaches, comments have appeared online espousing divergent points...
CGB founder Michel Prieur RIP
Michel Prieur, founder and president of Compagnie Générale de Bourse (CGB) passed away last week in Paris leaving behind a legacy of important contributions...
Ancient Coinage – Book Review: When the Dragon Wore the Crown
Book Review by: Wayne G. Sayles ........... Collectors and students of ancient coinage can hardly escape visual and epigraphical connections to mythology and astrology that...
Ancient Coins: A New Discovery?
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting ..... An article posted December 2, 2013 in The Times of Israel caught my attention among many articles...
Ancient Coin Collecting: The Rubber Stamp of Injustice
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting ..... In forfeiture proceedings currently before the United States District Court in Baltimore, the government has prompted genuine...
Ancient Coins as Cultural Property : If the Shoe Fits ….. Wear It
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting ..... In a recent archaeo-blogger post by Paul Barford, cultural property nationalist Nigel Swift wrote: The level and vehemence...
German Supreme Court ruling favorable to Ancient Coin Collectors
By Wayne G. Sayles – Ancient Coin Collectors Guild …….. While U.S. Courts have consistently avoided hearing arguments about the validity of imposing trade restrictions...
From small acorns…. Ancient Coin Collectors on the steps of the Supreme Court
By Wayne G. Sayles - Ancient Coin Collectors Guild ........ Some 50,000 Americans who call themselves Ancient Coin Collectors are hopeful that February 12, 2013...
One of the Joys of Ancient Coin Collecting
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting Blog..... Did you ever look at the image on an ancient coin and wonder, why did they choose...