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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3156328, member: 76194&quot;][USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]&nbsp; Coins will continue to come into the US, even illegally. After all, the U.S. government doesn&#039;t have the manpower to inspect every single of the millions of packages that arrive at it&#039;s shore to make sure the declarations match the items. I suspect packages with declarations like &quot;antique metals for inspection&quot; will continue to get through by the boatload. Not that I encourage the practice as a way to get Chinese or Egyptian or Syrian coins, or whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also ignorance of the law, lies, and other means by which coins will slip through. I&#039;ve imported illegally Chinese coins when an Ebay seller in China claimed that the coins were coming from Hong Kong, from where it is legal to import them. He lied, and sent them from somewhere in mainland China. I suspected a much when I got a package from mainland China with the description &quot;modern metal disks&quot; on it, and opened it to find the coins that were supposed to be coming from Hong Kong.&nbsp; I got stuck with coins that I would not have bought had the buyer been truthful to me in the first place, but there is nothing left for me to do at that point (other than delete the buyer from my eBay account).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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