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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 411712, member: 112&quot;]All I can say is that you guys sure must know a lot of dealers that I&#039;ve never run across. One of the biggest problems that you will ever encounter if you buy coins from European dealers is if you try to have the coins slabbed once you get them - they are often body-bagged. Europeans often see nothing at all wrong with harshly cleaning a coin - they will literally polish it up with a rag. And then never mention it in the description. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for grading, I would not say it is tougher than US grading, it is just different. They follow the old system for the most part - they use adjectival grading. It is much like technical grading in that regard, but they expand it. Instead of using a grade like just VF, they will say About Very Fine, Very Fine, Good Very Fine and Choice Very Fine. I see little difference between that and VF15, VF20, VF25, VF30 and VF35.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as for the Krause catalogs, there have been few if any increases listed for world coinage for years. Of course you have to remember that Krause does not publish a new book every year, they do it every few years. So of course the prices get out of date and are rarely accurate. </p><p><br /></p><p>But world coin prices have been seeing increases for about 4 years now, some of them dramatic. To a large degree this is because collecting world coinage has undergone a recent spate of popularity. US collectors are getitng tired of of paying outrageous prices for US coins. They have been finding out through posts on forums like this that the rarity of world coinage is multiples of that of US coinage, that the beauty, history etc etc all is better than US coinage. And most of all, world coins are a fraction of the cost of US coins. So of course prices are going up - there is more demand ! There is nothing unusual in this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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