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.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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