Who's waiting for a coin to arrive in the mail?

I was very pleased to receive these wins from FSR 99 today. I had been waiting a little longer than usual.



They took 18 days to reach me via regular air mail. Not too bad if you take into consideration the fact that they were...

 

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I'm happy for you, zumbly! Those are beautiful coins and losing them would have been a real bummer!

I'm still waiting for 5 beautiful Herod the Great coins from Israel. It's going on three months.

All I have to say is:
ARGHHH!!!

 

Thanks!

I've only ever bought from Israel once and the long wait on getting export papers in order has been a major deterrent ever since. I hope you receive your coins soon!

 

Waiting for a few British moderns I got from another collector to arrive.

First coin purchase in about 4 weeks.

 

Always got coins coming.....
A reg. "neutral" letter should be arriving from Goldberg Auctions this week. more or less modern.....
1927-R AV 10 Frangga Zogu I MS-63
1925-R AV 10 Lire Rep. of San Marino

John

 

Going on day 5.

 

I had a package that sat like that for several days recently and just today showed that it arrived at the Denver USPS facility. No updates entering or exiting customs or the facilities between customs and Denver. Very strange.

 

Yea, I'm thinking it just missed a scan somewhere. 5 days on the 'origin post' status is very unusual. I've had that happen before, but not very often.

 

And that's what happened.

It finally updated. It's in a NY sorting facility now.

 

This big bronze AE40 of Ptolemy IV

 

Valens, AD 364-378.
AR Siliqua, Treveri, 367-378.
Obv.: D N VALEN-S P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: VRBS ROMA; Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory set on globe in her right hand and spear in her left // TRPS•
Reference: RIC IX 27b and 45a.

 

Nice catch Oz! Siliquae are really quite cheap for their relative scarcity in relation to the base metal issues.

 

Currently, I have a coin touring the Eastern seaboard.



I've never had a package go missing after it has cleared customs and is in the domestic mail stream. Normally, after the ISC NY black hole hurdle is cleared it's smooth sailing ...

 

New York seems to be the 'black hole' for customs packages. 20 years ago or so I had one which arrived from Europe, cleared customs, then was sent to Singapore. True story. I did get it eventually.

 

I've been there. I once bought 2 coins from a dealer in the UK and a week late bought 2 more coins from the same dealer. After 2 weeks I received the second set of coins, but it took an additional 3 weeks for the first set of coins, which the dealer had shipped the day after I bought them. They went into the dark hole and lingered there until someone decided it had sat there long enough...I guess.

 

I have something coming from the last Gemini XIII auction that should show up "within 18 to 20 working days" according to what the staff there told me.

Very impatient to have it in hand and show the community here

Q

 

That gives me some hope. My fear is the USPS scanners are not reading the address correctly for some reason and they keep bouncing it from one sorting facility to another. I would not be shocked to see it sent to Singapore at this rate.

 

OMG. This has happened to me from time to time. It's kind of amusing for the first day or two, then it gets kinda worrisome. For what it's worth, I've always received my wayward packages eventually. I bet this happened more often than we knew before tracking became a secondary hobby.

 

Good point. It's just nerve-racking to see it in 'real time'.

 

Nice score, Sallent (good ol' JA, eh?)