Best place to buy modern world coins?

When I hear people so concerned with MS-64 or MS-65 I always think of the movie "Throw Momma from the Train" its a harlarious movie if you haven't seen it starring Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal. Anyway, there is this heartwarming scene in which DeVito shows Crystal his coin collection that isn't made of valuable coins, but rather ones that have sentimental value, such as the penny he got in change the day his dad took him to the zoo. DeVito shows each coin and tells a nice memory about his dad that the coin reminds him of. To me that's what coin collecting is all about. There's nothing wrong with investing in silver or gold, but that isn't true collecting really, its just investing.

 

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I like that idea. I do a lot of things that a lot of collectors on this board wouldn't understand, like I save every bicentennial quarter I find, even though they made hundreds of millions, because it was one of the first things I saved as a kid and I still think they're neat. And the heart of my foreign collection was based on coins I got from my dad and my great uncle from their time in the Army, and I'd never get rid of any of those. I can never pass up a coin from the 1800s no matter how worn it is, because it just seems so old. But luckily for me, a lot of the things that I like in coins are things that make others pass them by, so I can still collect and not spend a ton of money.

 

Your local dealer or show may have what you need.

 

Yep, I still save a wheatie if I get one back in change. It rarely happens, but sometimes it does. I collect IHC mainly because that's what me and my dad collected together so I'm trying to finish the collection by getting all the years we don't have, I'll eventually hope to even obtain the 1877, but that may have to be the last one I end up getting since its so rare. I try to find a coin of any denomination from any year I don't yet have. Me and my dad also kept the whitman coin books and would dig through our pocket change. I don't keep them in the book any longer as I prefer 2x2s but I still dig through my jar of change when it gets full before taking it to the bank to find any of the years or mint marks I don't yet have. Some with the foreign coins now. I finally found a coin shop in my area and went today. They had a box of world coins that I dug through and found some I liked. I picked mostly odd shaped ones. You know the square ones, the ones with 8 or 12 sides. I even found a hong kong coin that was flower shaped. I also really like the ones with holes in the middle. Most might think its silly to collect a coin because its odd shaped, but hey, I found them interesting so I bought them for next to nothing. So thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I did buy a great lot of world coins from a fellow CT member, they were a nice mix so thanks (you know who you are) and now that I finally found a coin shop that isn't so far away that has a world coin bin, I'll probably go dig through that every now and then.

 

I started a thread on here not too long ago for people to post odd shaped coins, because I think they're neat too. You might want to find that and it will give you some ideas.

 

Well the best place to buy modern foreign coins would be from the mint of the home country.

 

Joels is afun place to check out. I have bought many coins from him. Another to look at is: http://www.wcoins.com/