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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ColonialCoinsUK, post: 5008547, member: 114866&quot;]I hope people do not mind me contributing here - I have only recently joined CT although I have been following things, including ancients, for many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>As my collection falls under world coins I was not expecting to be impacted by this but my last auction win from Spain, which was only a couple of hundred years old, did require an export permit which was a first and I buy many coins from Spain. I am currently waiting for a similar coin from a recent Italian auction (where the limit seems to be 70 years now) and this is looking to be a 3 month wait. Being in the UK, and as we are still part of the EU for the moment, I have not yet been hit with any export fee. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> For me it does seem to be a bit random whether the auction house applies this or not, two in Italy always do but so far the others haven&#039;t but that may be that the coins I have been buying are not ancients. Japan also charges export fees, particularly annoying when you are buying a British coin!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Despite my interests in ancients I have so far resisted buying any as I know that it will be the start of another slippery slope, although I am always drawn to Corinthian staters and the Iberian horseman and as I live and work very close to Hadrian&#039;s wall I am surrounded by Roman&#039;s![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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