Hot-selling country coins

laurentyvan

Having moved into selling (from strictly collecting) France seems to be doing well for me lately on E-Bay, exceeding expectations. Great Britain sounds soft from the posts I've read here but Russia in the 19th century still sounds hot...

Since I've started selling duplicates or coins I can buy to resell (ethically and on the cheap), this posts title reflects my selling interests.

What countries coins are you having success with (regardless of what market purveyors or the current literature's interests are)?

WWW

Canada and Portugal.

Cladiator

Japanese gold seems to demand very high prices and sell rapidly.

coinpictures

Most of the coins I sell are low-end (priced less than $50; most less than $15).

Hot areas for me:

France
Italy and The Vatican

Warm:

Scandinavian countries
Great Britain
Mexico
British Commonwealth

Cold:

Pretty much everything else

Steve27

19th century Swiss coins seem to be pricey right now.

SYRACUSIAN

Greece is and has been.




Who's going to be the next one?

Cladiator

<< <i>Who's going to be the next one? >>

With my luck, probably what ever I decide to start collecting.

Hyperion

Ive never had a problem with any french coins.
almost all of the French gold ive sold have gone back to France.

spoon

<< <i>Who's going to be the next one? >>

That's the big question. We've already seen a surge in coins from smaller EU member states and other countries whose middle classes have benefitted from economic trends over the past 10 years (Greece, Portugal), that and countries who have a large diaspora in the West (Poland, Russia). Should we think that Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the EU will create similar interest in their coins? I don't particularly think so. Aside from a handful of rising stars, I think from here on out once the current crop of hotspots begin to level off in price we'll start to see a cyclical market like with US and British coins.

The number one place where I do think prices will rise over the next 3-5 years is Egypt -- I really think they'll mirror Portugal's numismatic rise. Other Mideastern countries are already seeing rises in certain areas. There are a handful of buyers out there driving up prices on these pieces and there's a good chance their cohorts will break out of their reluctance to spend and join them.

mrearlygold

I paid strong money for the last couple of auto dollars, one at a heritage sale.

newsman

The truly savvy investors are hoarding coins from Belgium. It's the next Portugal.

secondrepublic

Coins from Poland are still very expensive, though there is very little on the market, so it's hard to say where prices are headed.

MadMarty

Cuba, South Africa and the Dominican Republic

Cladiator

<< <i>Coins from Poland are still very expensive, though there is very little on the market, so it's hard to say where prices are headed. >>

I see the 10 and 20 Zlotych Gold coins all over the place. I'm guessing these were made in huge quantities?

Cladiator

<< <i>Cuba, South Africa and the Dominican Republic >>

No joke about Cuba. You can empty a bank account in no time flat collecting those babies.

secondrepublic

<< <i>I see the 10 and 20 Zlotych Gold coins all over the place. I'm guessing these were made in huge quantities? >>



The mintages aren't huge -- 50,000 and 27,000 respectively, and only struck in one year (1925). But the coins didn't circulate, and they were largely kept together until 15 or 20 years ago, when they were sold. The story I've heard is that they were spirited out of Poland at the start of WWII and kept abroad for many years in Canada or the UK. Eventually they were returned to the communist government, which sold some of them, and the rest were sold in the 1990s by the democratic government. That's why you see a lot of them today.

There are also claims made by folks that the mintages are much higher than 50k and 27k, or that they were re-struck after the war. I haven't seen any evidence for either claim and the catalogs and literature don't provide any different mintage figures. If you think about it, it's not surprising that you see them often, since there are 77,000 pieces, which is not really a small number; all of them exist; all are in MS condition; and it's the only gold coin (except for a dozen patterns - literally a dozen pieces) struck by a free Polish government for the almost two centuries between 1795 to 1990.

bidask

I am buying classic SA, Europe (ex Scandanavia) with emphasis on crowns and gold. Nothing modern.