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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carausius, post: 2430522, member: 76440&quot;]Paris fell about one month later!</p><p><br /></p><p>Those letters are great - real time capsules. Basically coins were sent &quot;on approval&quot; in those days. Most coins were not photographed, and buyers were ordering &quot;blind.&quot; If you liked the coin you received, you sent payment; if not, you returned the coin. Some dealers continued to do this into the 1970s and 80s. None do it today, to my knowledge, because inexpensive digital photography has largely eliminated the need. We all get to see what we are ordering in advance. In 1940, the dealer/collector relationship required a lot more mutual trust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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