Wow, I just found this out! I suspect most of you, like me, are offering to sell coins to people in other countries than the U.S. I just read something that got me to check this out, and ended up going through all the countries in eBid's network. I found out that coins are prohibited in several of them. There is no mention of collectible coins as opposed to ordinary pocket change, so I am assuming the worst case scenerio, if we ship to those countries the merchandise will be confiscated by Customs.
Here's my list of countries we can legally ship coins to:
Denmark
Finland
France (gold coins are prohibited)
Germany
Ireland (gold and silver coins only)
Italy (must be insured Priority Mail regardless of value)
Netherlands
Norway
South Africa
United Kingdom (must be insured Priority Mail regardless of value)
I don't have many in my store yet, but I'm going to go through them all and change the countries. I also have to figure out if I can have different options to cover the exceptions noted above.
If any of you know more about this, and I'm mistaken, please let me know. I got this information from the US Postal Service website.