On May 6-7, the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee will deliberate on a request for renewal of import restrictions on a variety of objects that Italy claims as State cultural heritage.

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The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG), a non-profit advocacy group that supports the free and independent collecting of coins from antiquity, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to expedite its challenge to import restrictions placed on ancient coins struck in Cyprus and China.

The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) and most numismatic scholars are concerned that growing governmental regulation of their discipline, through policies based solely on ideology, will cause real and irreparable harm to the progress of grass roots cultural exchange and to ancient numismatics as a science and avocation.

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An appeal filed December 22, 2009, at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG), the International Association of Professional Numismatists and the Professional Numismatists Guild seeks to overturn Judge Richard J. Leon’s November 20th decision to uphold the State Department’s (DOS) repression of information about the process by which import restrictions were placed on common collectable coins of Cypriot and Chinese types.