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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 205888, member: 39&quot;]@gxseries: Seems that for some mints it does pay off to also serve individual customers (the term &quot;end consumers&quot; may be misleading when talking about coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) while for others it does not. Of course it is easier if you, as a mint, just ship coins to some distributors or major dealers that can then sell them. There may also be contractual issues - as I mentioned, I cannot order coins from Swissmint, for example, because they have a distribution agreement with Hercher in Germany. Somebody in Belgium, however, can.</p><p><br /></p><p>@De Orc: Yup, agreed. It may be cumbersome for some EU mints to make two different prices (one EU price that includes VAT, and one for other countries which does not) but then quite a few other mints can handle that without any problems. I can also imagine that some awkward customs procedures make shipping coins from the EU to non-EU countries more difficult than before. So? Charge the customer more, but give him or her the option to order. I do hope that no other mints will follow the Dutch example.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, in a German coin forum there are some pretty active world collectors who organized some kind of swapping ring: One collector would contact the mint/central bank of country X and ask whether they would ship sets or rolls. If the answer is positive and the price and terms are OK, that collector would the receive the coins and &quot;distribute&quot; them among the other participants. Some other collector would do the same with country Y, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am not a collector of world coins in that sense, so I do not participate. But I was quite surprised when I read how many governments would either not respond at all, or say, sorry, we do not mail bags/rolls/sets ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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