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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3530884, member: 98035"]Amazingly, I've never had a coin go missing in the mail as a buyer. I had to take a phone call and answer some questions for FedEx for my last package, so this makes me extra grateful that the coins were released to me early the next week. I wonder if shipping insurance covers seizure by customs?</p><p><br /></p><p>As a seller, I have had a handful of packages that went poof after landing in the destination country. Thankfully nothing more than $100, so no tremendous loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've never been able to wrap my head around the philosophy that these countries entertain regarding antiquities... "As the acting government of this territory, we lay claim to all items beneath the soil, even on private property; even of items that, in antiquity, belonged to the individual and not the government."</p><p><br /></p><p>Puh-leaze</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine if California swooped right in and confiscated the Saddle Ridge Hoard in its entirety without compensating the finders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3530884, member: 98035"]Amazingly, I've never had a coin go missing in the mail as a buyer. I had to take a phone call and answer some questions for FedEx for my last package, so this makes me extra grateful that the coins were released to me early the next week. I wonder if shipping insurance covers seizure by customs? As a seller, I have had a handful of packages that went poof after landing in the destination country. Thankfully nothing more than $100, so no tremendous loss. I've never been able to wrap my head around the philosophy that these countries entertain regarding antiquities... "As the acting government of this territory, we lay claim to all items beneath the soil, even on private property; even of items that, in antiquity, belonged to the individual and not the government." Puh-leaze Imagine if California swooped right in and confiscated the Saddle Ridge Hoard in its entirety without compensating the finders.[/QUOTE]
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