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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24799273, member: 26430&quot;]I have had many coins held at customs over the years while they requested paperwork from me and/or the seller to document their legality. I don&#039;t know exactly how many times, but maybe a dozen? </p><p><br /></p><p>There was only one time when I did not end up receiving the coins in the end. And that was because the seller literally admitted they were illegally looted. I don&#039;t know who ended up with those coins, but the seller refunded me.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the rest were delivered to me after providing documents &amp; attestations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe half of those in recent years, the other half more like 10-15 years ago. (I don&#039;t remember when US Customs first began regularly holding coin. I only found out that was possible when it first happened to me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In recent years I&#039;ve tried to be stricter about buying coins for which I can make a good faith argument for their legality. But I didn&#039;t always do that prior to about 2013.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was one other occasion about 15 or maybe 20 years ago, something slightly different, an actual theft in transit by someone at or around NYC Customs or USPS. They took about 300-350 of the coins from a group lots of 1,000 uncleaned coins. At the time, there were a bunch of other reported thefts around that point of entry. (But if you look at the IAPN&#039;s numismatic crimes website, there are still occasionally outright thefts in shipping.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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