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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1088822, member: 68&quot;]World coins are a hoot but the big growth is being caused by domestic demand; people in that country are buying their coins back from the US foreign coin market.&nbsp; Middle classes are growing rapidly all over the world and these people have the time and money for hobbies. </p><p><br /></p><p>The explosive growth in moderns is being caused not so much by a big increase in demand but the growing realization that there is very low supply.&nbsp; A few yuan, rupees, and drachmas are competing for an even smaller amount of supply.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly though is that the world demographic for a coin collector has always been a male US citizen.&nbsp; Now days this collector tends to be older as well and there are millions of new collectors both in the US and worldwide.&nbsp; Usually a collecor doesn&#039;t get interested in in foreign coins until he has collected for ten or twenty years so there&#039;s just no end in sight for increasing demand for foreign.&nbsp; By the time demand abroad is starting to taper off the demand for world coins will be starting to increase in the US.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I like all coins an can even understand why collectors might chase something like a set of XF/ AU zincolns but when I consider the potential of a coin like a Fijian 1975 or 1995 20c piece in Unc it&#039;s just overwhelming.&nbsp; Such coins simply aren&#039;t available and if one turnd up the owner would take on look at its $2 price tag and toss it in poundage.&nbsp; It would end up in the garbage stream after children used it for play money in a few years.&nbsp; You can go to Fiji but you won&#039;t find one in Unc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are literally hundreds of coins I&#039;ve sought for 34 years and was never able to locate despite herculean efforts in some cases.&nbsp; How many people in Great Britain and its colonies will desire coins such as Fiji?&nbsp; You can get the old ones if you have the money but many of the new ones are not out there anywhere.&nbsp; On the bright side they&#039;ll be cheap if you find them.&nbsp; On the minus side you might have a hole in your collection until the price is far far higher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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