New Year - New Cultural Heritage limits - email from Katz Auctions

BStrauss3

Note that you can't apply for export permission until you win the auction!

Dear Friends, Partners, and Colleagues,
We sincerely thank you for participating in our auctions and for your continued support.
In connection with the enactment of the new Auction Law of the Czech Republic (č. 250/2023 Sb.) on January 1, 2025, we would like to inform you about changes to the delivery terms for lots shipped outside the European Union that fall under the scope of Law č. 71/1994 Sb. on the Sale and Export of Cultural Heritage.
As you may know from our standard T&C (in particular part X), foreign participants of the auction are obliged to obtain a certificate pursuant to Act No. 71/1994 Coll. On the sale and export of cultural objects, as amended, when exporting numismatic material abroad. Certification is unnecessary for the export of coins and medals created less than 50 years ago. Before January 1, 2025 a written certificate from the seller that items sent are not items of cultural value to the Czech Republic was enough. But as per new clarification of Historical Museum the certificate should be obtained for all items which are 50 years and older and it should be provided to the customs directly or through the courier together with the parcel. The certificate can be ordered only AFTER the sale when the certain buyer is defined and this certificate belongs to the buyer with his name on it.
Hopefully, it shouldn’t be one certificate per item but different categories require different certificates. So if you have 10 items of 1 category you need only 1 certificate. But if you have items from different categories, you need 1 certificate per category.
Categories of items subject to the law:

• Fund of Celtic and Ancient Numismatics
• Fund of Early Medieval Czech and European Monetary Instruments of the Denarius Period
• Fund of Monetary Instruments of the High Middle Ages in Bohemia and Europe of the 13th Century
• Fund of Monetary Instruments of the High Middle Ages in Bohemia and Europe
• Fund of Early Modern Non-Bohemian Monetary Instruments (1526 - late 18th century), excluding German states
• Fund of Early Modern Monetary Instruments of German States (1526 - late 18th century)
• Fund of Governmental and Non-Governmental Bohemian, Moravian, and Silesian Coinage within the Habsburg Monarchy (1526–1848)
• Fund of European and Global Coins from the Early 19th Century to the Present (over 50 years old)
• Fund of Non-Bohemian Paper Monetary Instruments and the Fund of Czechoslovak Coins and Banknotes from 1918 to the Present (over 50 years old)

• Fund of Medals and Phaleristics over 50 years old
  According to the rules, obtaining the certificate for export can take up to 30 days after submission to the museum. Certificates can be ordered only after payment for items is received (until items are paid you can't become the owner and we can't order the certificate).
  Changes for calculations of total amount of the invoice:

• Delivery times for shipments outside the EU will be extended by 30 days.

• Delivery costs will increase by 500 CZK (20 EUR) for each category of lots listed on the invoice. So if you have 10 items of 1 category we charge 20 EUR. If you have 3 categories we charge 60 EUR.
• You can collect purchases from multiple auctions and request certificates per parcel.
• You can provide us with an EU address and authorization to ship there.
  These changes are necessitated by the requirement to obtain additional permits and comply with the new legislative regulations of the Czech Republic. We are making every effort to minimize potential delays and ensure the timely delivery of your acquisitions.
  For any inquiries, please contact our support team.
  Sincerely,
  Katz Auction

sellitstore

This post may be more relevant on the World and Ancient board.

However, the implications are significant. The scope of what is protected has increased and it seems that you have to buy an item before you can apply for an export certificate. This could put a damper on bidding for certain items in certain countries.

pcgs_education

@BStrauss3 I have moved this to the correct forum

291fifth

While I am not in the market something like this would have caused me to drop out completely if I were.

coinkat

Seems it would be easier for the Auction House to simply keep a data base of customer winnings that could be checked to the extend needed or required. I doubt there is much gained through this process other than confusion.

Edited to add:

Does the current Czech Government have authority to control transactions whereby geographic borders are imposed in connection with coinage issued outside of the current Czech borders and even prior to the establishment of the current Czech government? Seems a tad overreaching. What about the notgeld and inflationary currency after WW I and WWII?

BStrauss3

@coinkat said:
Does the current Czech Government have authority to control transactions whereby geographic borders are imposed in connection with coinage issued outside of the current Czech borders and even prior to the establishment of the current Czech government? Seems a tad overreaching. What about the notgeld and inflationary currency after WW I and WWII?

Been a while, but the last time I read the T&C the title to the goods transferred inside Czechoslovakia and so they are within their rights.

tcollects

as if I needed another reason not to bid there