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US Coin dealers and collectors are very fond of saying how much "support" they have for their efforts to have freedom from restrictions on the import of coins without documentation of lawful export from source countries. They might compare the several hundred coineys who are pressurised by alarmist tactics to write to the State Department to protest that they are asked to collect responsibly with the results of the ongoing Causes petition about another form of artefact collecting. The 13-episode Spike reality TV show "American Digger" (like the National Geographic Channel's "Diggers") is attracting a lot of adverse attention. The number of signatures on the Change.org online petition protesting American Digger continues to grow - at the moment, there are more than 17,500 signatures. As SAFE notes in a thought-provoking post:![]()
US Coin dealers and collectors are very fond of saying how much "support" they have for their efforts to have freedom from restrictions on the import of coins without documentation of lawful export from source countries. They might compare the several hundred coineys who are pressurised by alarmist tactics to write to the State Department to protest that they are asked to collect responsibly with the results of the ongoing Causes petition about another form of artefact collecting. The 13-episode Spike reality TV show "American Digger" (like the National Geographic Channel's "Diggers") is attracting a lot of adverse attention. The number of signatures on the Change.org online petition protesting American Digger continues to grow - at the moment, there are more than 17,500 signatures. As SAFE notes in a thought-provoking post:
Could Spike executives and Gurney Productions be asking themselves: how many Change.org signatures and how Tweets in a focused campaign would cause advertisers to think twice about promoting their products on American Digger? We may soon find out.
