Experience of the customs service of Ukraine in the description of numismatic items

Abstract

At the end of the first quarter of the XXI century on the east and west coasts of the Atlantic Ocean there is a reassessment of traditional and classical culture. As a result, we have witnessed a «conflict of interest», which, in particular, can be seen in the preservation of cultural values. The task of customs officers of any state is not only to fill the budget with finances, but also to counteract the illegal movement across the border of cultural values and works of art. Officers of the Academy of Customs Service of Ukraine once provided the State Customs Service of Ukraine with plans to describe various types of works of art used by people in uniform when drawing up protocols, but ignored by the Ministry of Culture when filling in scientifically unified passports. The article is devoted to popularizing the attribution and description of sculptures in customs documents on the territory of Ukraine, based on the method of layered description of works of art, which facilitates their further identification, both when crossing the border and in operational actions of the officers Police and Security Service of Ukraine to create documents for search. When it comes to the registration of cultural values, it should be noted that in Ukraine there are still no: first, the only criteria for describing cultural values, which are stored in public and private collections; secondly, despite the forms of registration of cultural values approved by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine (the so-called scientifically unified passport), their key positions are filled in any form due to which the entered information does not contain useful information, as evidenced by documents labels that are not suitable for practical identification. And this «information» is transferred to scientific monographs and articles, which leaves the interested reader more questions than answers: third, there are not only standards in the system of photo fixation of cultural values, but also the practice of taking photos of artefacts stored in collections, as evidenced by materials of the investigation of thefts in Ukrainian museums and private collections. In order to change this practice, the author offers readers an algorithm for creating a protocol on violation of customs rules (passport), which is based on the method of layer-by-layer description of works of art, he offered the description of a coin as an example.