Hello From Wuxi, China!

@spruett001 Ahh yes, a very large flea market would be kind of close to what Temple Market is. Temple Market has quite a few regular shops in it along with too many restaurants to count that set it a bit a part from a flea market though. Most of the dealers are there all the time as well such as all the coin dealers :)

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The currency you are seeing, is it world, PRC, Rep. China, Circulated, Uncirculated, etc?

KK

Took some pictures of some of the dealer cases, a couple of the heavy currency cases I was never able to get close to, but those cases have PMG certified Chinese notes. I ended up finding another coin there as well (the coin with the sun at the end of the pics)

Thank you for sharing the photos. Good luck at the show!

I have not checked the prices of Panda's or any of the bullion coins yet. My wife is interested in getting some so I will be finding out soon. If you meant the coin prices in general, the prices seem to change dealer to dealer quite a bit. I already have a favorite dealer I go to who is priced below what the coins go for on ebay by 20 to 40 percent. The dealer with the best inventory though is high on literally everything I look at. With that dealer it feels like he is just quoting me high because I am a Westerner, but for all I know, those coins could be going for more here. I am new to the market after all and just getting a feel for it. I have only been getting prices on coins I am interested in buying too since I have to ask for a price every time, so I am only getting a very small sample of prices thus far.

Occasionally I have been running into coins certified by Gongbo Coins that I can find literally no information on the coin on the internet. So gagging prices has been very hard on those. I wrote the info down for this particular coin so I may see if anyone here knows anything in the world coins section of the forums.

I am stopping by the coin stands weekly now-a-days and I am surprised how much the coins are turning over. Yesterday I stopped and looked at three different coins. All three were priced over 150 dollars. I came back today and all three were gone. This isn't the first time this has happened. The coins I took pictures of the week before to go home and do research on were gone the next time I was there too. Once you get over the 300 dollar mark, the turn over slows down it seems. Coins I have seen in those prices are sticking around longer. A few I had looked at were there for three weeks. A dealer I have been becoming friends with has coins that start at 300 dollars. His coins do not appear to move very fast. Most his coins are 1000 dollars and up. Very cool stuff.

Today I found out he teaches at the same university as me lol, small world. He teaches a class on coins for the summer semester every year. Its really cool that they teach numismatics at my university :)