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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7865 

To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make 

certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and collecting 

of numismatic materials. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 2, 2024 

Ms. VAN DUYNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL 

To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make certain technical corrections to facilitate 

the lawful trade and collecting of numismatic materials. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL 

4 PROPERTY IMPLEMENTATION ACT. 

5 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 302 of the Convention on 

6 Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601) 

7 is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), 

2 and (11) as paragraphs (9), (10), (11), and (12), re3 spectively; and 

4 (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(8) The term ‘numismatic material’ includes 

7 coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related ob8 jects.’’. 

9 (b) IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.—Section 307 of the Con10 vention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 

11 U.S.C. 2606) is amended— 

12 (1) in subsection (b)— 

13 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; or’’ at 

14 the end and inserting a comma; 

15 (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by adding ‘‘or’’at 

16 the end; and 

17 (C) by inserting after paragraph (2)(B) (as 

18 amended) the following: 

19 ‘‘(3) in the case of such material that is numis20 matic material, satisfactory evidence that the mate21 rial was acquired lawfully, is of a known type, and 

22 is not known to be the direct product of illicit exca23 vations within a State Party,’’; 

24 (2) in subsection (c)— 


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1 (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 

2 at the end; 

3 (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the 

4 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

5 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(3) for purposes of subsection (b)(3), one or 

7 more declarations under oath by the importer or the 

8 person for whose account the material is imported, 

9 stating that, to the best of his knowledge, the numis10 matic material— 

11 ‘‘(A) was acquired lawfully in one or more 

12 States Party; 

13 ‘‘(B) was lawfully exported from a State 

14 Party in which the numismatic material was ac15 quired; 

16 ‘‘(C) is of a type known to exist in multiple 

17 examples which has been published in a ref18 erence work on numismatics; and 

19 ‘‘(D) is not known to be the direct product 

20 of illicit excavations within another State Party 

21 after the effective date for import restrictions 

22 on numismatic material granted to that State 

23 Party.’’; and 

24 (3) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(e) NO OTHER DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED.—The 

2 customs officer reviewing the satisfactory evidence shall 

3 not require any documentation or statements additional 

4 to that which is set forth in subsection (c) unless the cus5 toms officer has probable cause based on documentary evi6 dence to believe that the satisfactory evidence is false or 

7 fraudulent.’’. 

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