The ACCG has updated its import guidance to reflect new import restrictions on Tunisian types, including Carthaginian coins that circulated extensively elsewhere in North Africa, Spain, and Italy. Those newly restricted coin types are as follows:
10. Coins—This category includes coins of Numidian, Carthaginian (sometimes called Punic), Roman provincial, Vandal, Byzantine, Islamic, Norman, and Ottoman types that circulated primarily in Tunisia, ranging in date from the fifth century B.C. to A.D. 1750. Numidian, Roman provincial, and Vandal coins were made primarily in bronze, though some Numidian and Vandal types occur also in silver. Carthaginian types occur in electrum, a natural pale yellow alloy of gold and silver. Local Byzantine and later coin types were made in copper, bronze, silver, and gold. Coins may be square or round, have writing, and show imagery of animals, buildings, symbols, or royal figures.
Effective Date: July 26, 2024
Source: 89 Fed. Reg. 58978- 58983 (July 22, 2024), available at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/07/22/2024-16037/imposition-of-import-restrictions-on-archaeological-and-ethnological-material-of-tunisia .
Guidance here:072824 Import Restrictions on Ancient Coins and Declarations for Legal Import .pdf.
