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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 205669, member: 39&quot;]In another discussion here we recently had the example of Cyprus. The central bank in CY charges a fortune if you want to order from them - and that applies to anybody outside Cyprus, even those in the EU. A coin that costs £3 when purchased in Cyprus costs £10-15 when ordered from elsewhere, but only if you mail cash. If you use a plain ordinary money transfer, they charge about twice as much.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, the conditions are so deterring that hardly any individual customer would buy from them. Voilà, goal achieved - they can sell their coins to major distributors that will then sell the pieces to collectors. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>What I find a little strange though is this comment: &quot;Britain, Ireland and 25 other countries are all part of the E.U. If all of these mints take the attitude of the Dutch, quality coins from these mints will be severely impaired.&quot; John, as I mentioned before, several mints in the EU do not even sell/ship to any address outside the country. For example, even if I wanted to, I could not order anything from the Finnish Mint although I am in the EU. Other mints/numismatic offices act similarly ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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