tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post1740547695657498810..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Baltimore Seizure Cash Coins: When did they leave China?Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-76547429822385595892011-07-05T23:18:43.243-07:002011-07-05T23:18:43.243-07:00No, the lack of intelligent reasoning is entirely ...No, the lack of intelligent reasoning is entirely on your side. <br /><br />You challenge the Library of Congress and Harvard using the legislation you cite on your blog (ignoring totally the points I made earlier on your blog about the context of the bits you cherry picked) which basically undermines your own efforts trying to make a case by importing coins you cannot prove do not fall under the same legislation - you cannot have it both ways. <br /><br />Yes, Mr Tompa, I will indeed persist in opposing the no-questions-asked trade in dugup antiquities and doing my little bit to inform opinions about it.Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-4086522105654678842011-07-05T18:04:30.540-07:002011-07-05T18:04:30.540-07:00My, you are obsessed. But you are also silly. Ch...My, you are obsessed. But you are also silly. Chinese cash probably exist in the millions, if not billions. They circulated widely outside China, as far as West Africa. They even find them in the US brought there by Chinese immigrants. If you are comparing them to rare texts and art from the Naxi you really are off base. Also, doesn't the fact that the standard work on them predates the Chinese law suggest they were widely collected in the West before 1930? In China, they were likely still treated as media of exchange as opposed to relics at the time the statute was written. (They were made until the end of the Chinese Empire, c. 1911.) Even in China today, they are widely collected without any provenance information whatsoever. I'm not sure you are helping Ms. Ho by your multiple posts in response to my one, but I assume you will persist nonetheless.Cultural Property Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924359202414555962noreply@blogger.com