Hi, I always get good advise here in regards to Colonial Spain Reales. Please look at this Santiago specimen and your opinion please.
It is a good example, and in about VF+. Maybe a little better. I do agree, though, it is expensive for the date considering 1807 is one of the most common dates for Santiago mint 4 reales.
OK, will let it go. It is just so unfortunate that I have to pay premiums on Chilean coins in the country just because it is so difficult to get them through customs from abroad.
Yes, I was thinking about that, too. I wish there was a way for you to obtain them outside of the country without too much hassle and extra cost. If it is any consolation, if I buy them in the US german customs charges me 19% imprt duty. If I buy them in Spain, they are subject to government approval for export of 'Items of cultural Heritage' - That takes 2-3 months just to approve......
That suck. The newest thing in Chile is deliberate mistakes (higher values like an extra 0 in some cases) on the commercial invoice conversion from e.g. Dollars to Pesos with subsequent tax implications. Mostly blamed on the English thing. Then it takes a person say two weeks to sort it out, but then customs charge storage fees on top of the tax of 25% over 30 US. One can note that very little eBay sellers ship to Chile. I have less issues from and to Germany for some reason. I must be the only guy on this site who has never bought a coin of eBay. I bought most of my coins during traveling and via work consultants that comes to Chile for short periods. It is such frustrating thing!!
