A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
"The work of the ACCG"
. This has to be the most egregious example of coiney ACCG-supporter spin this year:
Thanks to the work of the ACCG existing MOUs cover a minority of coins, those that are covered now do require export certificates.
This gives the impression that as a respected scholarly body, the dealers' lobby group the Ancient Coin Collectors' Guild has been busily collaborating with the blokes in the US administration that write the Designated Lists attached to the Department of State bilateral cultural property agreements to decide which categories of artefacts should be on those lists and which need not be. In point of fact of course, the ACCG has been fighting the application of bilateral cultural property agreements to the subject of numismatic commerce as a whole - and dismally failing.
British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
"coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
"heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
"tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
MENA - Middle East and North Africa
PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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