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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1978531, member: 16729&quot;]Ebay is the one.&nbsp; But Stacks and Heritage have archived sales, too.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t know how to use them, ask them.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure they have customer service help.&nbsp; The problem is, they really make most of their sales in World Coins with very rare, high-grade (usually precious-metal) coins, and of course, U.S. coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also always helpful is looking around at World Coin prices at </p><p>vcoins</p><p>ma-shops</p><p>world coin price guide</p><p><br /></p><p>***But here is what I learned:</p><p>In my own speciality, South Korea, I found the online stores and auction sites that Korean people use.&nbsp; In Korea.&nbsp; If you really want to get into a specific country, you might very well have to get knowledgable about a foreign language to be able to search for your target countries&#039; coins.&nbsp; For me, that meant literacy in a non-roman alphabet language, asking internet-savvy Korean friends (non-coin collectors) to help me out, and just plain old &quot;time on task&quot; by finding books and catalogues on Korean coins, written in the Korean language, for the Korean market.&nbsp; Again, who wants to go through all that time and trouble?&nbsp; Answer: NOBODY... except me.&nbsp; Knowledge is power, and I used that to my advantage on those occasions.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where I noticed one of those crazy mismatches between Krause prices, coin-show prices (in the USA), and what Koreans in Korea would pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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