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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1930629, member: 16729&quot;]Yes,&nbsp; specialize in ONE country (or two...), and get to know them.&nbsp; Don&#039;t just buy the silly Krause catalog, although it&#039;s a good start.&nbsp; Granted, Krause has gone through a great effort to give us all prices, but if you delve deeply into a certain World-Coin niche (buying/selling/researching over a few years), you will notice how many errors are in Krause for those coins that you specialize in, and just how much info it <b>doesn&#039;t </b>give you.&nbsp; Those errors, especially regarding Krause&#039;s sometimes-tenuous connection to real-world market prices, are a GREAT opportunity for cherrypicking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Find the publishers of catalogs for that THAT specific country&#039;s coins that you collect; usually, they are published in that country.&nbsp;&nbsp; This might require the ability to read a foreign language, or the need to make friends with a bilingual immigrant from there!&nbsp; If you can, travel to that country, and investigate the Brick and Mortar stores yourself.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>I found the two most commonly-used catalogs used for South Korea (publishers named Dae Gwang-sa and Oh-Sung).&nbsp; I also found the ONLY known memoirs of a former Korean currency designer, and it detailed the history of the mint, coin production, and design work for S. Korea&#039;s coins.&nbsp; There are also Korean coin blogs and online sellers.&nbsp; None of this was in English, and I realized just how ignorant I was about these coins!&nbsp; All of these sources have expanded my knowledge of S. Korean coins well beyond Krause.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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