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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3600742, member: 98035"]From my experience with the Cyprus NFSL sellers (mainly ancientground AKA silverdenar), they will peddle mass amounts of stuff, about 60-75% genuine and the rest dubious or outright fake. Usually the genuine stuff is material like genuine LRBs, Byzantine, Indian or Islamic, while they also sell high ticket Greek and Imperatorial coins that range from obvious fakes to things that would fool me had I seen them offered by a reputable seller. I have deliberately bought from these sellers, but ONLY for coins I know extremely well, and I always set a "line in the sand" price to avoid getting into a bid war with a shill account.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for exporting from Cyprus, the MOU laws were drafted to mainly block the export of the rare and desirable Cypriot coins, but also later coins to a lesser extent. I've bought maybe a couple dozen orders from sellers in Cyprus, and customs hasn't come a-knocking yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3600742, member: 98035"]From my experience with the Cyprus NFSL sellers (mainly ancientground AKA silverdenar), they will peddle mass amounts of stuff, about 60-75% genuine and the rest dubious or outright fake. Usually the genuine stuff is material like genuine LRBs, Byzantine, Indian or Islamic, while they also sell high ticket Greek and Imperatorial coins that range from obvious fakes to things that would fool me had I seen them offered by a reputable seller. I have deliberately bought from these sellers, but ONLY for coins I know extremely well, and I always set a "line in the sand" price to avoid getting into a bid war with a shill account. As for exporting from Cyprus, the MOU laws were drafted to mainly block the export of the rare and desirable Cypriot coins, but also later coins to a lesser extent. I've bought maybe a couple dozen orders from sellers in Cyprus, and customs hasn't come a-knocking yet.[/QUOTE]
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