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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8330415, member: 19250&quot;]The one thing world collectors need to know is in the US world coins never held value for the most part do to their material they were made from. ....</p><p>The US mint did mint coins for circulating that still had a percentage of silver up to 40 % until 1968...</p><p>Given exchange rates...and The fact that the US is a distance from European countries and Asia countries&nbsp; collecting world specimens wasn&#039;t on the American collector radar.</p><p>Now add in the fact air travel linking the world&nbsp; for travel, WWll veterns sharing items that were obtained durring the war. Opened up the collecting of other countries other than US.</p><p>Also marketing as a YN you could find a lot of US coins in magazines like coin world, and other&#039;s like Numismatic news etc..</p><p>To give you another scenario Civil War Tokens...as a YN I could walk in any LCS and purchase CWT&#039;s for pennies on the dollar...the same tokens that sat in the old cigar box....that basically the junk box.</p><p>Now some&nbsp; comand hundreds of dollars in value.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I do attribute travel, materials,&nbsp; as well a different time....and better education made Americans more aware of what they were missing.</p><p>Then add in the fact that CWT and store cards,and other tokens now have a strong following....because their values and rairity.</p><p>I personally have always enjoyed world coins and money.&nbsp; However the focus today on these in my collection&nbsp; is higher than ever in the years I have collected.</p><p>Probably from my researching and love of history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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