Dealer Dave's Definitions: Looting

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Dealer Dave the Californian coin shop proprietor, commenting on an article by Keith Kloor which he found in Science Magazine, purports to supply his readers with a translation of what he calls "Archaeologese" used in the article, which he claims is a reflection of the "pervasive reliance upon "doublespeak" that is undisguised propaganda" among preservation-conscious archaeologists and which he says appals him. Funnily enough, I have exactly the same observation about the way the "collectors' rights" lobbyists try to present their case for opposing preservation. So let's have a look at one of Dealer Dave's definitions.

Dealer Dave, like all ACCG dealers swears blind that he's wholly against "looting" and would "never buy or sell looted coins". Now he has given his definition of the "Archaeologese" term "looting", perhaps he should explain what he himself understands by the term, saying he never sells "looted coins". The problem is that no evidence is offered on his shop's website that the coins he is offering for sale fall outside the definition he gives: "Looting - excavation of an artifact by anyone other than an archaeologist", for example a metal detecting hobbyist in the UK, a Bedouin wandering across the Libyan desert, or a goatherd tending the flocks on his father's land in central Greece). To fall into the narrow definition of the term he himself proposes (or what he states he understands others to mean by it) in order NOT to be "looted", all the coins on his website would have had to be recovered by archaeological excavations. Were they? If so, by whom, when, where, and who financed the work, and who authorised the dispersal of the excavation archive (finds)?

So, if this is not the definition he himself applies to the commodities he offers, it seems to me that when Dave Welsh says he "never sells looted coins", he must be using another definition of the term "looted". Perhaps therefore in the interests of transparency, having laid bare and ridiculed what he thinks others mean by the use of the term, he should tell us what his definition of it is, using the examples of the collecting histories of the dugup "New Coins" he is currently offering on his coin shop's website. Can he do that?