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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7787940, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve not heard of coins being returned to a dealer when US customs refuses to admit them. Usually they are seized and offered to the source country. Some time ago a story was shared here where a group of coins from Afghanistan were seized from a collector and when they didn&#039;t go back to Afghanistan (IIRC because they didn&#039;t want a handful of honestly junk coins), they were given to an American university.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blog.money.org/coin-collecting/head-to-head" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://blog.money.org/coin-collecting/head-to-head" rel="nofollow">This is not true.</a> It may not happen <i>often</i> with mainstream auctions, but the linked case happened before any MOU with Turkey existed. Even for provenanced coins it&#039;s not impossible for a seizure to happen. Most of the time, the auction house would refund your money for seized coins because most dealers who care about their reputation don&#039;t want to become known as <i>that dealer </i>but at the end of the day, only very old unquestionably legal provenance guarantees entry through US customs. In practice customs doesn&#039;t have the manpower to inspect 1% of all packages, let alone 1% of all coins, so you&#039;re likely safe but personally if a coin I&#039;m ordering internationally doesn&#039;t have very old verifiable provenance known to me I always consider it a possibility, and a cost of building a collection, that some pencil pusher somewhere may decide to ruin my day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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