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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2479038, member: 78153&quot;]I am not saying there aren&#039;t any.&nbsp; What I am telling you is that most countries have no tradition of collecting which is why both moderns and classics are not widely collected, whether locally or anywhere else.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have used Bolivia as an example many times because it is one I collect and know well.&nbsp; There is no tradition of collecting in that country and it isn&#039;t visible, anywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prospective collector faces numerous obstacles in a country like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, most of the quality coins (the few that exist) are located elsewhere.&nbsp; So yes, they can collect current coinage out of pocket change but not much else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second,. if they decide to collect anyway, not only will they have difficulty buying coins, but equally so selling them because there is no market for them locally.</p><p><br /></p><p>Third, many countries also have problems with their postal service, like South Africa.&nbsp; Its something collectors in the United States don&#039;t give much thought to unless they have bought from elsewhere and experienced it firsthand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I presume Bolivia and Saudia Arabia have some collectors but even if they do, the lack of a collecting tradition means that the coins are much scarcer than the developed world and there isn&#039;t much to buy anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe most non-US collectors care much about the quality standards used in the US and not just for UNC.&nbsp; But even so, I can tell you that for a country like Bolivia, there aren&#039;t enough decent coins available for more than a very low number of collectors to complete any earlier decimal series (the one I collect) and probably the preceding fractional coinage either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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