South American slabbed or certified?

I have searched & googled - seems pretty
Unusual to find slabs, same for
Central America.
1) any thoughts why?
2) any suggestion in where to
Look? Thanks!

 

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If you check Heritage Auctions "Archived Auctions" under world coins, you'll find there have been thousands of slabbed South American coins sold.

 

Ok thanks - any online stores? I have not done
Auctions before

 

That, I can't help you with. Keep checking back. Some of the world coin guys should be around in the next few days.

 

I am not sure about being slabbed, but there are dealers that apply there own grades such as:

http://nwcoin.com/index.php?cPath=26&osCsid=aeb7a792fe1fe8394169bf13136f247c

http://www.numismatica-venezuela.info/en/index.htm

You also may want to check out the companies that actually do the certification on world coins such as NGC.

http://www.ngccoin.com/services/worldcoins.asp

 

Out of curiosity, I checked the NGC Registry to see what sets there might be for some of these countries and there were very few listed. Including the Caribbean, these are the only ones: Cuba, Danish West Indies, Dominican Republic, Peru, Puerto Rico & Mexico.

I was a little bit surprised to learn that only two countries, Mexico & Peru, represented South and Central America. Perhaps this is part of the reason why there are so few slabbed coins from these regions.

Chris

 

Looking for Paraguay Uruguay Bolivia Chile Peru

Late 19Th century- really pretty coins very
Reasonably priced IMHO
Thanks -robert

 

I have been watching this seller over the last few months because they have sold some awesome lots of coins (none of which have I been able to win). They currently have some coins from the 19th century from some of countries you mentioned.

http://shop.ebay.com/javicomiami/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50

 

Just an excuse to show off some of my South American coins....

Sorry about the picture size.... I'm still getting the hang of resizing.

 

I can recommend Sedwick Coins. http://www.sedwickcoins.com I believe that most of his items are raw but they are quite nice!

I purchased these 3 Central American coins in slabs at the ANA in Boston. They were purchased from three different dealers & all were slabbed by NGC.

 

The main reason you do not find as many is because world coin collectors do not want slabs for the most part. Slabbing is a peculiar American fascination.

 

I think it goes beyond a peculiar American fascination. Alot of people want their modern coins to be certified as authentic and graded. Some folks fancy paying more for these 'slabbed' coins than the same grade coin unslabbed, this sounds more like the peculiar American fascination you speak of.
I can go either way on the issue... depending on the coin in question.... I like the fact that I can have some of my modern world coins certified, but wouldn't want them all in slabs by any means. With modern coins, that are fairly uniform from one strike to another, I can see it as a valuable service to some people.

 

Well you just ruined my day Doug. Why don't you tell me CNG and Gorny and Mosch will only sells slabs from now on as well.

 

....might as well kick my dog too, Doug.

 

Now I know EXACTLY why they did that.

 

personally i would lock you up in the dungeon we really cant bring you back once we shoot you. and who else would i beat with a stick on a regular basis for their uncoin comments

personally i am still to get over the coins are stuck weekly comment before your last comment made me fall out of the chair again