British Museum Watching Over eBay Antiques Sales
British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met’s Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today.
The initiative will try and tackle the problem of potentially academically valuable artefacts being traded. Amateur treasure hunters finding precious metal objects and groups of coins over 300 years old, or any prehistoric metal objects are obliged to report them by the Treasure Act 1996.
A team set up by the museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme will now keep an eye on eBay in the UK for dodgy-looking auctions.
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