tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post7706996567739823573..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Summary of discussion of Greek Cultural Property Request to the US Government on this blog to datePaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-89594607246471830112010-09-22T05:10:44.519-07:002010-09-22T05:10:44.519-07:00UNamercian ideals? When was combatting dishonesty ...UNamercian ideals? When was combatting dishonesty unamerican?Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-18362379575040440812010-09-22T05:09:26.935-07:002010-09-22T05:09:26.935-07:00Aha...
I wonder whether the CPAC will find those...Aha... <br /><br />I wonder whether the CPAC will find those arguments at all convincing as a reason why they should refuse the Greek request for the USA to look out for illegally exported artefacts.<br /><br />For the record, it is not all coin collecting that this MOU would affect (if the Greeks asked for coins to be included), just those that collect illegally exported coins from Greece. Is that you? <br /><br />I really cannot agree with more than half of what you said, it seems the typical coiney claptrap - repeating the tosh poured out by Tompa, Sayles, Welsh and Hooker. None of whom are at all interested in helping collectors get a rounded picture; those that want that are on their own. Not that I have come cross any collectors of dugups that are at all interested in seeing that there's another side to the argument, and that there are more words in the CCPIA than their Pied Piper leaders tell them. More fool them.Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-59932652270434409542010-09-21T08:23:47.390-07:002010-09-21T08:23:47.390-07:00Paul, for the record, here was my letter.
Dear St...Paul, for the record, here was my letter.<br /><br />Dear State Department,<br /><br /> I'm writing you as a coin collector. In particular I enjoy collecting ancient coins. I'm an artist and a studio art professor. I'm also a war veteran, with a combat infantrymans badge awarded in 2005.<br /><br /> The noble hobby of amateur coin study, numismatics, has come under attack recently from foreign governments and the archaeologists who work there, sometimes they are Americans with compromised integrity because they are really representing the interests of the foreign governments. The USA believes in free trade and property rights, many of the people who are against coin collecting believe that citizens should not be able to buy ancient coins, which runs counter to the fundamental form of capitalism we practice in all other facets of our daily lives. The State Department may be tempted to side with these unamerican ideals because of political expediency. However, I urge you to consider that there are two sides of the coin, so to speak, and consider the interests of both groups. <br /><br />Thanks for your consideration,<br /><br />Bill Donovan MFABill Donovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09784106148142157239noreply@blogger.com