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		<title>Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hacked By Cocain TeaM
Persian Soldiers :
SkilleR W4S H3RE
Bax.Cocain@Gmail.com
Persian Gulf 4 Ev3R
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		<title>Ruling in FOIA case condones DOS intransigence on ancient coin import restrictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long-awaited ruling fails to address serious issues within the U.S. State Department bureaucracy.
US District Court Judge Richard Leon—well known for his pro-government views—has issued a ruling upholding the State Department’s refusal to disclose information about the controversial decisions to impose import restrictions on coins of Cypriot and Chinese type.   The Ancient Coin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Symbiosis Lost and Nuance in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Wayne Sayles &#8211; Ancient Coin Blog
Ancient coins have existed since the 7th century BC. They attracted the interest of collectors shortly after that and have continued to inspire ordinary people around the world for going on three millennia.
During the Italian Renaissance, the collecting of ancient coins became so popular that a sophisticated commercial market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “illicit” antiquities trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Wayne Sayles &#8211; Ancient Coin Collecting Blog
For the past five years I have read a nauseating stream of blog posts, news articles, discussion list comments and convention presentation reports that condemn the &#8220;illicit&#8221; trade in antiquities. The fact that anyone might condemn illicit activity is not in itself nauseating, but the ringing of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drivel Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The twitter around the cultural property nationalist blogs at the moment is that a rare tribal octadrachm of the Bisalti has been seized from an auction firm in Switzerland. One of these bloggers even uses the episode to disparage, by linkage and innuendo, the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) and its allies in a Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ira and Larry Goldberg World and Ancient Coin Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Goldberg&#8217;s will be holding a World and Ancient Coin Auction on October 29th and 30th in Beverley Hills CA, and as with all of their sales, interest is high. The online catelog has been posted and there are several notable highlights.
The sale will be held in two sessions; Thursday the 29th Session 1, Ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Coin Collectors Challenge U.S. State Dept. Bureaucrats After Baltimore Seizure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small packet of inexpensive Chinese and Cypriot coins imported from England by the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) have been seized by Customs in Baltimore, Maryland.
The coins were imported to test the legitimacy of State Department (DOS) imposed import restrictions via two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU). ACCG maintains that actions of DOS relating to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin’s Auction 62 &amp; 63 to Feature Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Coins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest auction organised by Baldwin’s auction department begins with an impressive selection of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins featuring a very rare Greek Medallion (lot 105, pictured below). It is presumed that this medallion was produced to commemorate an African victory of the emperor Commodus, although it appears to have few details of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAFE gets it right! (sort of)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Wayne Sayles &#8211; Ancient Coin Collecting
In browsing the web site of Saving Antiquities For Everyone (SAFE), an advocacy group for archaeologists and Nationalists, I recently found something surprising that caught my attention. On the organization&#8217;s page appealing for donations, is a sidebar about Ai Khanoum. This mysterious ancient city in Afghanistan was discovered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGC Ancients Grades Armenian Rarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A box of &#8220;old coins&#8221; purchased for $28.25 at an estate sale near Burlington, VT held an unexpected surprise: its contents are estimated to be worth more than $15,000 because it included one of the most important Armenian coins in existence.
It was Richard Martineit’s good fortune to be at that auction in October, 2007, where [...]]]></description>
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