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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 255882, member: 39&quot;]Some mints have strange limitations regarding who they accept as a customer, and who they don&#039;t want. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Rahapaja (Finland) for example will not sell to addresses outside FI; Swissmint does not accept orders from customers in Austria, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Now the KNM (Netherlands) won&#039;t ship to addresses outside the EU. And so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some cases the reason is that the mint has a contract with some distributor. That will usually make a coin more expensive, but shipping will often be less. (Another issue, when a EU customer buys from an EU mint, is that the VAT can be quite a lot. So when I, as an &quot;end consumer&quot; in Germany, buy a coin from the Monnaie de Paris, I pay almost 20% TVA, while I pay 7% USt when buying from a dealer in DE.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from these issues, my experiences with the Dutch and French mints, the numismatic offices in Germany and San Marino, and the mints in the US, the UK and Hungary have been pretty good. Fortunately I have so far not had to return a flawed coin or set from any of those; that may make a &quot;deal&quot; much more expensive. But they were all pretty or very good regarding how they deal with inquiries, and how quickly and reliably they ship ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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