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clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I guess I need to look before I offer coins for sale in certain countries, but in reading the restrictions I can not ship a coin to Portugal. Does this include ALL forms of mailing, or should I send this using UPS?

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Why would a country forbid shipping a coin?
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have shipped a lot of coins to Portugal with no problems. Most times when the USPS has 'coins' on a country's prohibited list it doesn't apply to numismatic items.

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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ahh, I think I get your point. image

    I don't think Portugal circulates too many Escudo coins anymore so that must make it a numismatic item.

    On registered mail you have to use that weird brown paper tape, correct?
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, you have to use paper tape on Registered Mail items. My local PO will let you use theirs as long as it is only on an envelope.

    DPOTD-3
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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Yep, brown paper tape.
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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, thanks!! image
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  • goossengoossen Posts: 492 ✭✭
    I use to declare my packages as "hobby supplies". Shipped coins to many countries that way....
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    A description of a "stamped plancent" also works.image
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