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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2433357, member: 78153&quot;]I don&#039;t see that the embargo has or had anything to do with the market value.&nbsp; Your assumption seems to be that there is a large proportional supply in Cuba which will become available later. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of the embargo, if there were coins available on the island which could have been sold, most likely it would have happened.&nbsp; Smuggling isn&#039;t really that hard and happens all the time..</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect them but most Cuban coins probably left decades ago after the revolution.&nbsp; I collect Bolivian republic decimals (1864-1909).&nbsp; These coins are probably a lot scarcer but I&#039;d say almost none of better ones remain locally because there is no market for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also presume (but do not actually know) that Cuban Americans are the primary collectors, there is a proportionately large concentration based in the US and if the supply is not that large as I suspect, that this is the reason for the relatively high prices which I have also noticed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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