Ende unseres Hobbies?
Verfasst: Di 23.08.05 01:04
Ich möchte euch diese Email vorstellen und jeden bitten, einen kurzen Brief zu schreiben. Er wird dann als Fax an die zuständige Kommission gefaxt. Es geht darum, daß Italien die USA gebeten hat, die strengen italienischen Gesetze für Kulturgüter zu übernehmen. Auch für antike Münzen! Das bedeutet, daß jede Münze, von der man nicht nachweisen kann, daß sie nicht aus Italien stammt, beschlagnahmt werden kann. Sollten die USA der Bitte nachkommen, hätte das einen erheblichen Nachteil für unser Hobby. Insbesondere wird der Handel mit antiken erheblich erschwert werden. Mit Sicherheit würde das zu einem Preisanstieg führen und man wäre ständig mit einem Bein im Gefängnis.
MfG
Greetings,
I wanted to update everyone on the Italian import restrictions hearings which will end this Wednesday. The fax wizard has been reconfigured so that you can send your comments even if you are not a US resident! I have already received many emails from friends who have taken a few minutes and sent their electronic fax opposing the looming import restrictions on Ancient Roman coins! I have also had friends in both Canada and Australia successfully use the fax wizard!
Wednesday August 24th is the final day to make you voice heard and at last count only 401 faxes have been sent!
Everyone reading this message should understand that there is a VERY REAL threat that renewal of the Italian MOU may add ancient coins to the list of items that would be prohibited from import into the US. The impact on the worldwide market for ancient coins would be very serious.
It is relatively easy to prevent import restrictions now. Think for a moment of the outrage you would feel should anticollecting radicals succeed in stopping international commerce in ancient coins. Ancient coins would become much more difficult and expensive to obtain. Collections, paradoxically, would also become more difficult to sell. Your favorite dealers would be forced out of business because they could not get coins to offer.
Please take a few minutes now to protect your freedoms and don't let this happen.
The modified fax wizard can be found at www.vcoins.com/fax ,click on the picture of the U.S. Capitol building at the left side of the ACCG home page and follow the simple instructions. It is fast, and if you choose one of the 3 form letter options it will take less than 1 minute! We need 100% participation, every ancient coin collector must make his/her voice heard or we run the risk of having our hobby made illegal through continued import restrictions. A precident has already been set with Iraq and China which will make it that much easier to slide through the Italian request, then the Greek request until it will be illegal to import any ancient coins into the US which will virtually signal an end to the hobby as we know it!
If you want to see the effort progress, you can visit this link to get up-to-the minute stats:
www.vcoins.com/fax/stats.asp
Many thanks to Bill Peutz of Vcoins and Wayne Sayles and the many dedicated members and donors ACCG for their efforts. Ancient Imports is proud to be a member of the ACCG and I urge everyone to join as we need to show through our numbers that there are collectors who are concerned about this issue! Without an organized and full effort we will surely fail.
If you are not certain and want to learn more about the ACCG please visit their website to get clear, concise information about what they are doing for the hobby...
http://www.accg.us/
Many thanks!
Marc
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MfG
Greetings,
I wanted to update everyone on the Italian import restrictions hearings which will end this Wednesday. The fax wizard has been reconfigured so that you can send your comments even if you are not a US resident! I have already received many emails from friends who have taken a few minutes and sent their electronic fax opposing the looming import restrictions on Ancient Roman coins! I have also had friends in both Canada and Australia successfully use the fax wizard!
Wednesday August 24th is the final day to make you voice heard and at last count only 401 faxes have been sent!
Everyone reading this message should understand that there is a VERY REAL threat that renewal of the Italian MOU may add ancient coins to the list of items that would be prohibited from import into the US. The impact on the worldwide market for ancient coins would be very serious.
It is relatively easy to prevent import restrictions now. Think for a moment of the outrage you would feel should anticollecting radicals succeed in stopping international commerce in ancient coins. Ancient coins would become much more difficult and expensive to obtain. Collections, paradoxically, would also become more difficult to sell. Your favorite dealers would be forced out of business because they could not get coins to offer.
Please take a few minutes now to protect your freedoms and don't let this happen.
The modified fax wizard can be found at www.vcoins.com/fax ,click on the picture of the U.S. Capitol building at the left side of the ACCG home page and follow the simple instructions. It is fast, and if you choose one of the 3 form letter options it will take less than 1 minute! We need 100% participation, every ancient coin collector must make his/her voice heard or we run the risk of having our hobby made illegal through continued import restrictions. A precident has already been set with Iraq and China which will make it that much easier to slide through the Italian request, then the Greek request until it will be illegal to import any ancient coins into the US which will virtually signal an end to the hobby as we know it!
If you want to see the effort progress, you can visit this link to get up-to-the minute stats:
www.vcoins.com/fax/stats.asp
Many thanks to Bill Peutz of Vcoins and Wayne Sayles and the many dedicated members and donors ACCG for their efforts. Ancient Imports is proud to be a member of the ACCG and I urge everyone to join as we need to show through our numbers that there are collectors who are concerned about this issue! Without an organized and full effort we will surely fail.
If you are not certain and want to learn more about the ACCG please visit their website to get clear, concise information about what they are doing for the hobby...
http://www.accg.us/
Many thanks!
Marc
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