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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3542522, member: 76194"]I think I see how this works now....</p><p><br /></p><p>1) some European museum sells at auction some of the more common coins they have in stock to raise money for some other exhibit.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Sucker...uhm, collector., purchases said coin at auction and tries to have it shipped to the US or Canada.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) Coin gets repatriated back to the country came from, and ends up in the vault of the same exact museum. Museum smiles because they have the money from the sucker, I mean collector, and the coin back again.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) Repeat steps 1-3.</p><p><br /></p><p>May not work forever, but you'll probably be able to get away with it three or four times before word gets out.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also the reason I don't sell coins overseas. I'm not sure if the coin will ever be able to get back to the US to be enjoyed by another American collector in the future, so I owe it to future generations of American collectors to keep it in the US.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3542522, member: 76194"]I think I see how this works now.... 1) some European museum sells at auction some of the more common coins they have in stock to raise money for some other exhibit. 2) Sucker...uhm, collector., purchases said coin at auction and tries to have it shipped to the US or Canada. 3) Coin gets repatriated back to the country came from, and ends up in the vault of the same exact museum. Museum smiles because they have the money from the sucker, I mean collector, and the coin back again. 4) Repeat steps 1-3. May not work forever, but you'll probably be able to get away with it three or four times before word gets out. This is also the reason I don't sell coins overseas. I'm not sure if the coin will ever be able to get back to the US to be enjoyed by another American collector in the future, so I owe it to future generations of American collectors to keep it in the US.[/QUOTE]
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