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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tulipone, post: 2078185, member: 71656&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if you are naive or just trying to troll me.&nbsp; Again.</p><p><br /></p><p>By and large, the folk selling modern silver coins bought their stock from somewhere. Unless they smuggled them in from somewhere abroad without tax on silver, they paid tax on them on import or VAT when they sold them.&nbsp; Declaring stuff as a gift on import is both smuggling and small scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a coin dealer at a coin fair not to be making above the threshold for paying VAT they are not dealers, they have a hobby that may give them a small income.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You may pick up an old candelabra at a boot sale and I agree, no direct tax.&nbsp; Buy it from an antiques shop, you pay tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>My apologies to the OP for off topic.&nbsp; I&#039;m done with this now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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