.
Over on the Huffington Post blog under Wayne Sayles' ranty "call-to-arms to all coin collectors all over the US" Alfredo de La Fe (US dugup coin dealer) says:
The legislation to which Sayles refers applies specifically to import of correctly exported archaeological and ethnographic material, nothing else (I assume the US coiney de La Fe is getting confused and talking about the PAS - which applies to England and Wales, probably soon only to England, not the whole UK. The PAS is of course in no way connected with the export procedure for coins or anything else).
To legally export a dugup ancient coin (Roman, Celtic, Medieval or later over 50 years old) from the United Kingdom you need in every case an export licence (and from Scotland and Northern Ireland given the different legal situation there, to avoid problems, you would be wise to include documentation that the object has been released by the appropriate authorities). When they are going outside the EU, they may also require an EU export licence - though there are some exemptions from that particular requirement for some types of cultural property (such as many, but not all, numismatic items).
Any coin of this type imported into the US from the UK without an export licence is just as illicit as one from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and China and if the US was actually honouring the principles of the 1970 UNESCO Convention should be seized at point of entry and only released when the proper documentation is provided. But who has ever heard of them doing such a thing? (And still US importers claim they are being discriminated against by laws requiring ICE to be more vigilant towards imports from certain countries with a special agreement with the US in addition to being a fellow state party to the convention!)
Readers can check the requirements for export of cultural property from Britain:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/supporting-museums/cultural-property/export-controls/export-licensing/
and when it comes to dugup artefacts of the type mentioned by de La Fe, in particular here:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/Guidance_Exporters_Archaeological_Objects_incl_numismatic_items.doc
Over on the Huffington Post blog under Wayne Sayles' ranty "call-to-arms to all coin collectors all over the US" Alfredo de La Fe (US dugup coin dealer) says:
"Look at how the UK has addressed these issues".One would have thought that somebody who makes a living selling dugup antiquities would know the legislation concerning this activity like the back of his own hand. Unfortunately that seems not to be true in this case.
The legislation to which Sayles refers applies specifically to import of correctly exported archaeological and ethnographic material, nothing else (I assume the US coiney de La Fe is getting confused and talking about the PAS - which applies to England and Wales, probably soon only to England, not the whole UK. The PAS is of course in no way connected with the export procedure for coins or anything else).
To legally export a dugup ancient coin (Roman, Celtic, Medieval or later over 50 years old) from the United Kingdom you need in every case an export licence (and from Scotland and Northern Ireland given the different legal situation there, to avoid problems, you would be wise to include documentation that the object has been released by the appropriate authorities). When they are going outside the EU, they may also require an EU export licence - though there are some exemptions from that particular requirement for some types of cultural property (such as many, but not all, numismatic items).
Any coin of this type imported into the US from the UK without an export licence is just as illicit as one from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and China and if the US was actually honouring the principles of the 1970 UNESCO Convention should be seized at point of entry and only released when the proper documentation is provided. But who has ever heard of them doing such a thing? (And still US importers claim they are being discriminated against by laws requiring ICE to be more vigilant towards imports from certain countries with a special agreement with the US in addition to being a fellow state party to the convention!)
Readers can check the requirements for export of cultural property from Britain:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/supporting-museums/cultural-property/export-controls/export-licensing/
and when it comes to dugup artefacts of the type mentioned by de La Fe, in particular here:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/Guidance_Exporters_Archaeological_Objects_incl_numismatic_items.doc
