Machine struck / hammered by country

I wanted to ask if someone have, and could share any info about that.
In my country is forbidden ho have, collect, buy or do anything with hammered coins, they are claimed to be part of the history and the only option you have is to donate every coin that is not machine struck to the museum.
My question is if someone has a list for every country, with the year of last hammered coin (the year after all coins were machine made) so I could know what is okay to have in my collection.
This will be helpful for many collectors for sure

Bulgaria-1879

Thanks in advance,
Kris

I just did a quick online search by typing in ‘bulgaria restrictions on coin collecting’, and from what it appears, this would only be an issue with coins minted in Bulgaria before 1750. The most recent article is from 2014, but they all say that it does not cause an issue with buying/selling coins within the country itself. Just that there is a restriction on exporting certain coins to the United States (although this appears to affect coins that were excavated after the law went into effect). So for coins from other countries, such as Spanish silver hammered reales, etc, these should be ok. (It also would not make sense to restrict coins minted outside Bulgaria, as this has nothing to do with the cultural heritage of the country in question. But mention was made in several of the articles about corruption in the country, and that there is a good possibility that many items that are supposed to go to museums will actually end up with corrupt museum officials, police, etc.
As an example of a good way to do things~England has the treasure trove law, that is basically multiple items found metal detecting that are over 300 years old, have to be declared. If it is considered to be of value to a museum, then it will be purchased from you for fair market value. If it is something that is determined to not be of historical value, that a museum would be interested in, then you are allowed to keep what was found. But again, this only applies to metal detecting finds. Collecting, trading, buying and selling of coinage is otherwise not restricted.

Here is a link to one of the articles: https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/bulgaria-u-s-customs-restrict-ancient-coins

Pretty strange from the point of view of a collector that the law in Bulgaria would choose to protect only hammered coins as historically significant and not, say this essai from 1880?

I roll my eyes at most laws prohibiting the export of coins worth only a few euros based on historical and cultural value, but at least those are more consistent than the hammered coin standard here.

Απόσπασμα: "Napoleon1"​I just did a quick online search by typing in ‘bulgaria restrictions on coin collecting’, and from what it appears, this would only be an issue with coins minted in Bulgaria before 1750. The most recent article is from 2014, but they all say that it does not cause an issue with buying/selling coins within the country itself. Just that there is a restriction on exporting certain coins to the United States (although this appears to affect coins that were excavated after the law went into effect). So for coins from other countries, such as Spanish silver hammered reales, etc, these should be ok. (It also would not make sense to restrict coins minted outside Bulgaria, as this has nothing to do with the cultural heritage of the country in question. But mention was made in several of the articles about corruption in the country, and that there is a good possibility that many items that are supposed to go to museums will actually end up with corrupt museum officials, police, etc.
​As an example of a good way to do things~England has the treasure trove law, that is basically multiple items found metal detecting that are over 300 years old, have to be declared. If it is considered to be of value to a museum, then it will be purchased from you for fair market value. If it is something that is determined to not be of historical value, that a museum would be interested in, then you are allowed to keep what was found. But again, this only applies to metal detecting finds. Collecting, trading, buying and selling of coinage is otherwise not restricted.

​but before 1750, there are few different Bulgarian kingdoms, and I can be sure that if they found some old Roman or Greek coins for example, they gonna take them. Laws here are very stupid and some people getting advantage of this.

The corruption is really big, and yes, there are many good examples of how it should be, but nothing gets better and everybody rolls their eyes when we talked about those problems. So I just want to be calm about my collection.

There are few hard to find patterns, I bought one from German auction few months ago, but on most of them they made Chinese copies and government don't give a s**t. They look as the collectors as thiefs and scammers and don't do anything for our hobby to protect or help us

I ckecked the laws, and asked people really in those things, they told me that for machine struck coins i wont have any problem, the earliest were from 1490 until the 1700 for some ottomans and Chinese, thats why I asked my question, I've checked what I can and cannot have

If you are interested in Livonian coin, as a general rule, avoid anything minted before 1575. During that year, the mint in Riga got a machine called the Walzerk, which basically worked by placing a sheet of metal through a machine that was like two rolling pins (which had the dies on them). Someone/something would then punch out the resulting patterns. With a process like that, it is not rare for coins to be off-struck, and when the coins are off-stuck, you will not see an empty space outside the main pattern, but rather the beginning of another pattern.

So, looking at the Livonian places who struck their coins after 1575 more specifically...

For the Free City of Riga, this type should be the only non-hand-struck one (which also happens to be the most common type): https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42146.html.

For the Duchy of Livonia, anything under the Thaler currency should be good, although I cannot confirm the gold coins were struck the same way. Under the mark currency, the coins were all struck at Dole Castle, and would have been struck by hand.

For Swedish Livonia, anything from 1 Solidus to 3 Polker should be good. As like above, I cannot confirm the gold coins were struck the same way, and I also cannot confirm that with the thalers. And under the Siege of Riga, the countermarks would have been added by hand, so I guess those should be avoided.

And that just leaves the Duchy of Courland. Their coins were minted at Mitau, but their off-struck coins do not show the design meant for another piece (for example: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces87572.html). Because of that, they would not have use the Walzerk, but the fact that there are some majorly off-struck coins makes me think these coins were either not hammered, or that the striker was extremely lazy. So... I am not sure about this place.