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Country-wise trends

CollectorBobCollectorBob Posts: 418 ✭✭
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- Portugal has cooled considerably
- Greece, somewhat
- Poland and Russia continue to be hot!
- Mexico is warming up nicely
- Germany is once again cold as ice
- Scandinavia is a mixed bag
- Japan continues to struggle too

Gold for BV is selling fast (no matter what the source country)

JMHOs

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I mostly agree. Scandinavia seems to always be cool to me, especially 20th C coins.

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Poland still seems to be hot. The peak might come in January when Stacks auctions off a mega-rare and mega-large gold 100 ducats from the early 1600s. It should easily sell for over a half-million USD.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    Please tell me where I can find the "cold as ice" prices on quality German coins; certainly Künker missed that memo image -Preussen
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    It's not a matter of "if", but "when" the Carry Trades are allowed to unwind, anything denominated, and/or sold via the Yen or Swiss francs image will likely increase very drastically in a short amount of time.image
  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭


    << <i>Please tell me where I can find the "cold as ice" prices on quality German coins; certainly Künker missed that memo image -Preussen >>



    I agree from what I've seen it doesn't appear Deutchland has cooled any to me. I am still seeing some very strong prices for top coins.
    Omnicoin
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    From what I have been able to garner, lower grades VF to XF have cooled (Portugal and colonies and Scandanavia especially), but higher grade pieces continue to do well.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • BBQnBLUESBBQnBLUES Posts: 1,803 ✭
    Am I the _Only 1 who thinks Cuban Gold will skyrocket (when) trade embargos are relaxed ?

  • svessiensvessien Posts: 48
    About Scandinavian coins:
    It seems like a steady rise on the price of silver Norwegian kroner (50 øre, 1 and 2 kroner 1875-1917) is about to come to an end. Prices have gone up quite rapidly the last years, but as supply is bigger than demand at the time, only high grades sell at catalog value or over. The years 1880, 1885 and 1888 still sell high over catalog, even in poor grades. A cleaned 1888 2 kroner in xf was sold for 27 000 kroner one month ago - that's AU price. It was sold for BIN price after 15 minutes (!). The 1878 1 krone is also always sought after. 1894 and 1895 too, but can't compare to the 80's coins.

    Speciedalers from Karl Johan and Oscar I seem to have cooled off a bit, among others due to recent discoveries of fake China dalers. Carl XV speciedalers are more rare, and will continue to sell good. 17th and 18th century speciedalers are still going high, exept 1776, 77 and 78 - the most common dates.

    The trend in the Norway market seems to be that a lot of collectors got what they need of kroner and øre, while skilling coinage is on demand. A 1827 24 skilling in VF to XF sold for over 1K on ebay. This is one of the more common dates of the Karl Johan 24 skillings, but many collectors still lack this type in their collection.

    As for 20th century cuprio-nickel coins, only uncirculated coins sell at prices close to cat. value. The exeptions are 50 øre 1945 (z), 50 øre 1929 (XF and better), 50 øre 1954 (XF and better), 5 øre 1918 and 1945, and the 10, 25 and 50 øre coins minted in London 1942, which are more popular than ever.

    Svein
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Am I the _Only 1 who thinks Cuban Gold will skyrocket (when) trade embargos are relaxed ? >>



    I think all Cuban coins will show increased demand once the Cuban people are freed from slavery. The real question is what, if any, supply of coins remains on the island.

    Right now, it seems like all of Latin America is heating up as far as demand for nice coins is concerned.
  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭


    << <i>Please tell me where I can find the "cold as ice" prices on quality German coins; certainly Künker missed that memo image -Preussen >>




    yeah, thats what i was thinking!

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