ANCIENT COIN COLLECTORS GUILD

Please Support HR 7865, a bill to facilitate the lawful trade of coins

UPDATE: HR 7865 Reintroduced as HR 595

HR 7865 would amend the Cultural Property Implementation Act to facilitate lawful trade in numismatic materials. Specifically, it would allow for the import of coin types on “designated lists” as long as there is evidence that the numismatics item was acquired lawfully, is of a known type, and is not the direct product of illicit excavations within a State Party after the effective date of any import restrictions on coins.

This legislation is necessary to address grossly overbroad import restrictions on common coins that circulated regionally and even internationally that are enforced not solely on items illicitly exported from a UNESCO State party after the effective date of implementing regulations, but rather as embargoes on all coins of given “designated types.”

For further background, see this article published in CoinWeek: https://coinweek.com/bill-introduced-to-facilitate-lawful-trade-of-ancient-coins/

The following collector and trade organizations support this bill:  (1) American Numismatic Association; (2) Ancient Coin Collectors Guild; (3) CINOA; (4) Global Heritage Alliance; and (5) International Association of Professional Numismatists.

UPDATE (2/15/25):  HR 7865 has been reintroduced in the current Congress as HR 595.  The text is identical to HR 7865 in the last Congress. Details may be found here:  https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/595?s=3&r=1