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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 2437695, member: 16729"]Hey, man, you are asking one of my big questions about contemporary World Coins, especially the "less-commonly-collected" types.  If there is literature on World Coins or literature concerning the collector community in certain countries, language barriers are involved.  Actually, forget about language barriers; sometimes just access is hard.  I know there are certainly mountains of literature on Japanese coins/collecting community written in Japanese, but getting access even to this literature (which I cannot read!) is even hard.   One would almost have to travel to those countries to get a hold of them.  These are materials that seem to be in print format (mostly), and are not sold online.  If they are sold online, often you would need a credit card drawn from a "local" bank to pay for these items.  Then there are the online numismatic "clubs" and blog posts, which are a wealth of information about numismatic communities.  Some of these require signing up with foreign web-portals that require "National Identification Numbers," or other types of local identification requirements which foreigners, like me, of course do not have!   All of this is just from my own experience in exploring South Korean numismatic literature.   The internet has NOT changed everything!   Access is still often denied.[/QUOTE]