Comments on: Are foreign coins worth any value at all? Please help! :)?

By: Taiping

Taiping — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:20:59 +0000

If the value is the most important thing to you stick to U.S. coins. If history, fun and learning about the world is more important then collect world coins. One must understand that there are investors who collect coins for the money they think they will make. Then there is a collector group that fills holes in folders or pages and tries to complete sets. Some of this type just cannot afford U.S. coins, so they may go for world coins and may try to collect one coin from every country. They may also pick a country. Then there are numismatist who collect coins but also study them. They are more interested in the coins history than value. This type person has many interests, but some stick only to one series. One has to have a love for history to collect ancient coins, they are not all expensive most are reasonably priced. There are also collectors and accumulators, the latter may have 75 pounds of world coins, but there is no rime or reason to them. Most small domination coins of other country have little to no collector base in other countries. We here in the U.S. collect cents but the Europeans could care less about our lowly cent. They do collect our Morgan dollars for they are big and 90% silver. you need to come up with want YOU want to do, what you want to collect. One thing about coin collecting is you get to do it your way, no matter what the so-called experts say.
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By: Martin J Knight

Martin J Knight — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:04:59 +0000

Well…. I would imagine if the coins are easily exchangable to get in the US they wouldn’t be any value. Unless they were really old, or the currency no longer exists to the country anymore.

I have 5 Iraqi Note. Which has Saddam Hussein on the note. But I don’t think many people would want that, especially for much of a price.

I also have 2 Old Brittish Pennies from the late 1800’s. Which i’ve seen are worth like £17 each or something. But that was a source from eBay

I would say that the coins that are unattainable or hard to get and ones that are very old would be worth something.
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By: Mike D

Mike D — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:30:59 +0000

A foreign coin is just currency from another country so the chances of it being worth anything more than from where its from is low, plus with exchange rates the money is worth even less in the US,
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By: Kavasa

Kavasa — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:00:59 +0000

Depending on the metal used, year, condition and rarity of the coins they can definitely be worth something.

Try looking them up online. I’ve done that with my coin collection and came across a ton of coins I wish I had, both American and foreign!
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