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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4952663, member: 96898"]Today I received a small group of coins that made quite an odyssee. I won them at a Tauler y Fau (Madrid) auction in early March, when I was still living in the US. The auction house, which has been a pleasure to deal with, shipped them in early April, after the Spanish postal service had resumed accepting international mail after the initial COVID wave. Yet, the coins stayed in US customs for more than three months, while I made the spontaneous decision to move to Germany in mid-June. Fortunately, I was able to forward my mail to a friend in California, who received the package in September. Thus, the coins started their journey back to Europe... Today, after about seven months, I finally have them in hand!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some quick pictures (better ones will follow eventually):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1190442[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1190443[/ATTACH]</p><p>(<u>Top row</u>: Magnentius AE; two dineros of Jaime II of Aragon; 2 maravedis of Felipe II of Spain; <u>bottom row</u>: Gordian III sestertius, two dineros of Jaime I of Aragon, sol parisis of Charles IX of France).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Please post your own coins that spent a long time in the mail or made their way into your collection in a similarly tumultous fahion!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4952663, member: 96898"]Today I received a small group of coins that made quite an odyssee. I won them at a Tauler y Fau (Madrid) auction in early March, when I was still living in the US. The auction house, which has been a pleasure to deal with, shipped them in early April, after the Spanish postal service had resumed accepting international mail after the initial COVID wave. Yet, the coins stayed in US customs for more than three months, while I made the spontaneous decision to move to Germany in mid-June. Fortunately, I was able to forward my mail to a friend in California, who received the package in September. Thus, the coins started their journey back to Europe... Today, after about seven months, I finally have them in hand! Here are some quick pictures (better ones will follow eventually): [ATTACH=full]1190442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1190443[/ATTACH] ([U]Top row[/U]: Magnentius AE; two dineros of Jaime II of Aragon; 2 maravedis of Felipe II of Spain; [U]bottom row[/U]: Gordian III sestertius, two dineros of Jaime I of Aragon, sol parisis of Charles IX of France). [B]Please post your own coins that spent a long time in the mail or made their way into your collection in a similarly tumultous fahion![/B][/QUOTE]
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