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Message:: [QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 3876800, member: 28550"]I think there are too many factors to lump all of world coins together. That said, the BRIC countries seemed to have generally rising values over the last 10 years (even after accounting for exchange rates), but it seemed like the fall in oil prices really hit Russian coin values hard. India and Brazil seem to have plateaued, if not retrenched a bit in the last couple of years, but are still quite pricier than they were when I first started buying them. Chinese coins seem to be on a continuous upward trajectory, with ocassional stalling (especially when government policy encourages bullion buys and drains some of the fuel from that rocket). I also buy a lot of Philippines coins from the era of US Administration (1903-1945). Those have been on a tear over the time I've been collecting, with the highest end having the greatest appreciation. I used to be able to pick up sea salvaged 1936 commemoratives for melt (there was a shoebox full of them at a coin shop in Austin that I cherry picked). I would have trouble finding those for 2 or 3x melt value now.[/QUOTE]