Coin Show Outcome............

i whent to a coin show last weekend, and i am a world coin guy, i do not deal in U.S. coins. i have inherited

quite the collection of them but i dont make a point of it to expand that collection. i was selling some german

marks some german states, and all were silve. no one i mean no one. wanted to even look at them. they all

turn their nose up to world coins. i think its pathetic, in my opinion the U.S. coins have a long way to go. i mean

the U.S. coins to me are plain, and boring. its almost like they don't take the time to design a really nice coin, a

coin with lots of detail. make us yanks proud of our mints. as of right now i'm ashamed. lemme know what you

think on this.

 

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Bummer.

Was this a local show? How large?

I too collect only world coins and I can usually find at least 3-4 dealers in world coins at even the smallest shows.

 

it is sad

 

it was a pretty large show, it was held at a casino, here in michigan. im was very disappointed with it, not to mention i drove over an hour to get there.

 

That IS ridicious. More than 200-300 years ago, there weren't even any American coins other than some colonial coins. You can always share your coin story here though

 

It is natural that most of the collectors collect coins of their own nation. But to neglect the foreign coins altogether is really bad.. There's something more than mint perfection or something like that. Here in India, there are lot of collectors who specialize in world coins.. And I've seen some collectors who specialize in US coins (there are some really big and rare US collections here). The new comers here often collect foreign coins rather than Indian coins - its cheaper and the children are happy.. Also, there is no scarcity of foreign coin dealers here. You name a foreign coin and they have it for you.. I think the problem out there in the US may be the lack of exposure to the foreign coins..

 

that could definitely be the problem. lack of exposure. i cant stand it, drives me nuts.

 

Dealers are buying to resell and my guess is that they couldn't immediately come up with anyone they knew to resell your marks to. If there was an active seeker anywhere on any of their lists, they'd be all over the coins. I'm assuming you know what a fair price for them is.

In terms of world coins, look how much less Canada's issues sell for than their US counterparts. It's supply and demand...

 

Exactly.. It all depends on demand. For example, in the 1970s, the India government issued proof sets every year and their mintage was around 2000 to 5000 only. But even now, they are available at less than $60.

 

I think it is a real pity that this has happened in America (possibly a byproduct of slabbing ?). In Britain, all the major dealers stock lots and lots of world coins.....a real treat for everyone...

 

Satootoko...techinically, if you collect world coins, then you collect all coins......

 

We used to have fairs in which around 7 or 8 dealers would turn up on a Sunday.There was one guy who was more of a stamp dealer,but he had a few coins & banknotes.I used to find some bargains there.I actually picked up my East African 1920H silver Florin that way.The really surprising bargain I did pick up was a Monegasque 1950 100 Francs that he had NZ$8 on.He let me have it for NZ$5.It turned out to be an Essai catalogued at that time in Krause at US$55.

There aren't really that much interest in a lot of world coins over here,but I have never really collected New Zealand coins,apart from the traders' currency tokens.

Aidan.

 

Were you offering them to dealers that specilized in world coins or dealers that specialized in US coins? Dealers in US coins will almost alyways turn their nose up at Darkside material.

 

Jerome, you are also technically correct (Krause even lists them), but in general usage, at least here in the States, "world coins" is understood to mean "non-US", and that was the sense in which I used it.

Actually, there is a Morgan - chosen for its typicality - in the last binder of my OFEC (one from every country) set.

 

i was offering them to anyone that wanted to take a look at them. alot of the u.s. guys wanted silver coins. so i would show them what i had. all of them were silver. they would turn their nose up to it. really made me mad. i showed them to alot of world guys too and they didnt even want to think about it. i dont know why? does germany have a bad rap or what? i had several very rare german coins, i didnt even have a price on them. i told everyone make me an offer.


marksman01

 

when the people at your show thought of world coins, they were probably also thinking "by the pound" or "nice for the kids".

 

ya probably. it was just a huge disappointment.

 

try and sell them on here maybe people here are interested

 

i would try but my camera does not take super zoom pictures. so people would have to take my word and no one wants to do that anymore. i could post a picture of a coin off the net. just make sure it is the same year and close to the grade. i dont know. im getting married soon so i cant drop a load on a new camera.

 

ahhh a fellow michigander... sorry you had such a miserable experiance at the show marksman01