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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8263027, member: 134416&quot;]I&#039;m happy to be a new customer of London Ancient Coins, and they&#039;ve been added to my go-to list.&nbsp; The one teensy gripe I have is the coins come with no information.&nbsp; I.e. there&#039;s a slip inside the flip, but it&#039;s some kind of inventory number.&nbsp; That&#039;s it.&nbsp; The inventory number takes up a lot of the slip, so one can&#039;t really write. The flip side of the flip has an emblem.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t have any slips.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s about two weeks from order to me, which I have no problem with.&nbsp; About the same as I seem to recall from Incitatus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins themselves have been very satisfactory and I had no problems witht the prices. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, where can I get a supply of saflips?&nbsp; My supply from 2009 ran out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm, wait a sec.&nbsp; Marc B. puts in so many slips inot the flip, I wonder if I can write on the other side of the Mr. B coins advert slip?&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to look.</p><p><br /></p><p>I miss the old days of vcoins when all the dealers&#039; emblems were arrayed in a giant phalanx.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been eyeing some coins at Shick coins, but I heard Israel was a pain in the neck to get coins out of.&nbsp; His terms seem to imply that it&#039;s a 2 week wait, for the permit.&nbsp; I could live with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Spanish dealers: reading the confusing legalese, there&#039;s a 5% permit charge for &quot;third&quot; countries. Is the U.S. a third country?</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s many &#039;new&#039; (i.e. added since I faded out of active numismatics around 2014).</p><p><br /></p><p>Zuzim: I&#039;ve heard very good things about them on CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry &amp; Darling:&nbsp; I think I might have bought one thing from them over the years?&nbsp; I remember them being at vcoins in 2009.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Italian dealers:&nbsp; I wrote one of them, asking about the rules.&nbsp; He was very nice, but according to a dumb Italian rule, shipment is only allowed to the EU.&nbsp; So basically I&#039;d have to find a second party to get around it.&nbsp; In this case, I think I found a gold coin to upgrade the very pretty AE that I missed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harlan J. Berk.&nbsp; Duh, we all know that firm. I haven&#039;t bought anything from them in years, but it was such fun to visit their firm when my grandfather was still with us and we would travel to Chicago.&nbsp; I picked up my favorite coin, a Johannes Tremissis, from him.&nbsp; The pick bins were very fun. They had a lot of hoity toity coins, but they had coins for all budgets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jon Kern: no one seems to mention him. I&#039;ve bought from him exclusively at coin shows, and one of my favorite coins; an enormous posthumous Lysimachus Tet.&nbsp; He had a pick bin of sorts full of them, c. 2002.&nbsp; I want to say it was around $175?&nbsp; The last purchase I remember was c. 2010.&nbsp; He would usually have a hoard of like coins; such as gold Honorius Solidi, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charachmoba Gym: Try saying that 3 times fast.&nbsp; I have no idea.&nbsp; They must be newer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody buy from the newer or more obscure Vcoins dealers?</p><p><br /></p><p>Laurel certified:&nbsp; I had a fine experience and I was very happy with my lovely Heraclius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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