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baronbaron Posts: 58
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SORRY, HIT THE INCORRECT BUTTON WHILE POSTING.

USUALLY I AM AT THE US COIN FORUM.

WHILE BORED ONE DAY I CHECKED E-BAY FOR POLISH COINS, (MY LAST NAME IS PILARCZYK) AND WAS SURPRISED TO FIND SOME SILVER COINS FROM THE 30'S.

I BID ON THEM AND EXPECT TO BE SUCCESFULL.

MY QUESTIONS ARE:

DOES ANYONE COLLECT THEM?

ARE THERE BOOKS ONTHE SUBJECT?

ARE THERE ANY GRADING SERVICES FOR THEM?

ARE THERE WEBSITES FOR THEM?

ARE THERE REPUTABLE DEALERS FOR THEM?

SORRY FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS BUT THIS IS MY FIRST FORAY INTO WHAT I BELIEVE IS REFERED AS THE ' "DARK SIDE"

MANY THANKS TO ALLWHO RESPOND

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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    John Z and 1 jester will be right there to help youimage
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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    baronbaron Posts: 58
    WHO ARE ?

    JOHN Z

    1 JESTER

    PLEASE EXPLAIN
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    tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    Welcome to the Forum.
    Those '30's Polish silvers are attractive and hard to find in Uncirculated condition.
    For pricing comparisons you can look at similar pieces on Ebay. You might also try a library for a copy of the Standard Catalog of World Coins for pictures, values and lots more interesting info.
    John Z and Jester have some experience in the Polish field but we're all willing to help.
    And, please unlock your Capslock key.
    Brad Swain

    World Coin & PM Collector
    My Coin Info Pages <> My All Experts Profile
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Welcome, Baron!! image The answer to your questions are all "yes" but some of the more useful books, for example, are in Polish. Do you read Polish well?
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
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    AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    Why all the yelling?
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803

    wnccoins.com
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    historygeekhistorygeek Posts: 792
    John Z. is one of our Polish coin experts currently residing in the United States of America. 1Jester is another Polish coin expert, but he lives in Poland. image


    Psst, give East Prussia back to Germany.image
    Corrupting youth since 2004
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Hi Baron! Welcome to the Darkside. I'm sure you'll be quite happy with your new collecting direction; Poland has had a wonderful history which includes some fantastic coins minted in the last 1000 years. The coins you refer to, as Askari says, are very hard to locate in uncirculated condition. Also, most reference materials, such as the "redbook", written by Parchimowicz, are in Polish. There are other materials but also available only in Polish. I'd recommend, as Tbirde suggests, a Standard....by Krause. And, there's a good volume by Kalkowski with a lot of illustrations--it's in Polish.

    HistoryGeek, I wouldn't call myself any kind of expert, but thanks for the endorsement.

    .....and remember that "East Prussia" was part of Poland long before the Germans got ahold of it. Besides, if you want to go border changing, I'm sure Poles would be more than happy to get back all they lost: Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, etc etc.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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