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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4543649, member: 110350"]This makes perfect sense.  [USER=106364]@Libby007[/USER], one has to be accurate (so one can't be accused of dishonesty if it is necessary to make an insurance claim) while trying to avoid the word "coin."  Not only because of the problems that using that word causes with shipping and insurance, but because, as I mentioned in my first comment here, it greatly increases the risk of theft.  If your lost shipments used the word "coin(s)" on the customs forms or otherwise, that may well account for the loss in the first place. In addition, even if "coins" is part of the business name of the dealers from whom I buy, either in the USA or internationally, they tend not to use that word on the envelope in their return address. If the name is "Joe's Coins," they'll put down something like "Joe's Parts" or "Joe's Metals" instead. Interestingly, given what you were told by DHL, it's apparently not a problem going in the other direction.  I've bought coins several times from London Ancient Coins, which has shipped my purchases to me in the USA by DHL Express.  As has a dealer in Spain. I found the most recent DHL envelope from the UK, and it says "Content Description: Ancient coins 100 years old."  Something most dealers don't actually say even if doing so isn't an obstacle to acceptance by the shipper.[/QUOTE]