In response to allegations in a criminal complaint filed in New York City alleging that certain valuable coins were sold with false provenances, the ACCG has updated its ethics rules to make clear that it condemns the use of unsubstantiated provenances to sell historical coins. The ACCG’s ethics rules already urge that “sellers will not knowingly purchase coins stolen from private or public collections or reasonably suspected to be the direct products of illicit excavations in contravention of national patrimony laws. Coin collectors and sellers will also comply with all applicable customs laws.” For more, see https://accguild.org/CodeOfEthics
