Blog Profile / Ancient Coin Collecting
| URL : | http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Collecting / Currency Collecting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 133 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.5 | |
| Archived Since: | June 9, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
German Supreme Court ruling favorable to Ancient Coin Collectors
While U.S. Courts have consistently avoided hearing arguments about the validity of imposing trade restrictions on ancient coins, a German High Court has faced the issue head on and ruled definitively in a case involving coins.On October...Show More Summary
A Kinder and Gentler Paul Barford?
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2013/04/face-to-face.htmlKudos to Cambridge archaeologist Helen Geake for apparently striking a chord of reason in the most unsuspected of places. Cultural property issues are always open to debate and philosophical adversaries are not always evil, as Mr. Show More Summary
Archaeologists entertain the views of private collectors
The Council for British Archaeology has published a paper on their digital journal web site that outlines the thoughts and concerns of private collectors. Issue No. 33 of Internet Archaeology includes a commentary by yours truly that...Show More Summary
From small acorns…. Ancient Coin Collectors on the steps of the Supreme Court
Some 50,000 Americans who call themselves Ancient Coin Collectors are hopeful that February 12, 2013 will be remembered by numismatic historians as an auspicious day. Washington bureaucracy broke with law and tradition in 2007 by imposing...Show More Summary
More from Barford about ACCG
In a recent blog post, Polish Archaeologist Paul Barford has offered yet another in a heartwarming string of compliments directed at the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. Noting that the ACCG did not comment at the Cambodia MOU hearing,...Show More Summary
A rational voice in a sea of hyperbole?
On the Trafficking Cullture website, one reads that, "Trafficking Culture aims to produce an evidence-based picture of the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects." I instinctively thought of the myriad sensationalized media...Show More Summary
Happy Holidays
I have many friends in the Ancient Coin Collecting community and the range of their religious beliefs is impressive, to say the least. Fortunately, at this time of year most religions see fit to recognize a holiday or "holy day" for one reason or another, not necessarily being the same. Show More Summary
Support from abroad
In a bold display of true Polish solidarity, archaeoblogger Paul Barford has joined with ancient coin collectors in criticizing U.S. State Department (DOS) actions in the cultural property arena. In a recent blogpost, Barford took the...Show More Summary
Coin Collectors and the Intellectual Landscape
The ever-thought-provoking Polish archaeologist, Paul Barford, used a phrase in one of his recent blogs that did cause for me a moment of reflection. "Here I am talking about the 'broader intellectual landscape' within which they ['coineys'] function...." It struck me as odd that Mr. Show More Summary
Barford calls on Coin Collectors to Study and Publish
In what to some ancient coin collectors might seem like a dramatic change of tack, archaeo-blogger Paul Barford has revealed that private collections can bear intellectual fruits and enrich the understanding of other disciplines, including archaeology. Show More Summary
Archaeologist Barford endorses WGS Store
Paul Barford, a "British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw Poland. Since the early 1990s" has publicly commented on the WGS Store in a recent online post titled "Pieces of the Past for all....". Barford notes that the WGS store is an independent web site launched by Wayne G. Show More Summary
What Makes a Collection Important?
The following brief commentary was originally published in The Celator. People collect for various reasons and with many differing objectives. Most collectors of ancient coins started out collecting something else. Perhaps it was modern coinage, or stamps, or beanie babies. Show More Summary
Open Letter to Paul Ryan
Dear Congressman Ryan;We only met in person one time, at a GOP convention in Sheboygan several years ago. Jim McGarigle (7th District) and I were there staffing an Ancient Coin Collectors Guild advocacy table. We were lobbying for passage...Show More Summary
Candi Dunlap Arrest
This afternoon, I talked with reporter Ruth Ingram of the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, MS about a story she has been following. It's a compelling story about a young lady who went to Macedonia on what should have been a rewarding mission of kindness and help to others. Show More Summary
Going too far?
The question posed by Lee Rosenbaum "When do cultural-property demands go too far?" is one that easily flows off the lips when considering the Elgin Marbles or the Mona Lisa. But the demands go too far in the other direction as well....Show More Summary
Analysis: one of the joys of ancient coin collecting
Mardin, Najm al-Din AlpiAD 1152-1176 (AH 547-572)Gemini / Virgo and Mercury Did you ever look at the image on an ancient coin and wonder, why did they choose this particular image? If the coin happens to bear the portrait of a king or emperor, the answer may seem obvious. Show More Summary
A Foul Wind
There has been a foul wind blowing in cultural property circles for several years now and the ACCG has been caught up in it like a sloop trying to beat off of a lee shore. After my post earlier this morning and a night of serious reflection I awoke to find yet another post from Dorothy King. Show More Summary
Cyber Sabotage
I thought I had seen and heard it all until today. This Blog by archaeologist Dorothy King completely blew my mind. As best I can gather, someone purporting to be "Arthur Brand" sent Dr. King a letter claiming to represent the ACCG. All I know about that letter is what I have read on the blog of Peter Tompa here but it must have been very offensive. Show More Summary
Fed Up!
Coin collectors across the U.S. are tired of being singled out with unilateral sanctions. The State Department’s assault on our ability to collect coins is killing another American industry and leaving coin collectors in China and Europe to freely buy and sell. Show More Summary
Witches, Warlocks and Trolls
Nothing in the human experience quite equals the fervor of self-righteousness. And, nothing is quite so dangerous to the progress of society. The years between 1692 and 1970 were far from devoid of that scourge, but events of those two dates stand out in social history as extraordinary examples of errant thought. Show More Summary