ACCG Presses Grass Roots Campaign on Italian MOU

The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has issued the following press release about its grass roots campaign to keep coins off the designated list of artifacts subject to import restrictions in conjunction with the prospective extension of the US MOU with Italy. See http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coin-collectors-call-for-grassroots-response-to-dos-90744069.html

By its very nature, an extension suggests a continuation, not a major expansion of a current agreement to include a whole new class of artifacts avidly collected by tens of thousands of Americans . Unfortunately, based on the last minute inclusion of coins in the extension of the Cyprus MOU in 2007 (publicly announced the day of the CPAC hearing), anything is possible when the secretive State Department bureaucracy is running the show.