The hunt for illicitly obtained coins deemed to be the cultural patrimony of another country is intensifying. From a law and order perspective this is a good thing. From a legal perspective who gets to decide what coins are sufficiently important to be labeled as cultural patrimony by a country, and who gives that country the right to demand such patrimony be theirs to claim is in question.
On March 18, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced new import restrictions on what CBP described as ‘Albanian coins’ as part of a laundry list of import restrictions
