Foreign Commemoratives Proofs

Anything still current you can get straight from the french mint
called Monnaie de Paris at a 19.6 % discount ( no taxes ) for export

http://boutique.monnaiedeparis.fr/i...oryName=1529

One thing when buying older world Proof coins: watch out for the Franklin Mint.

In the 1970's, they flooded the market with coins from every corner of the globe... but mainly from tiny British dependencies (places like Cayman Islands, Belize, Barbados, Jamaica, etc.). The coins themselves are good enough, if proof coins are your thing, but the packaging was atrocious. Unless the coins were shipped off straightaway to the Moon, Tibet or some similarly airless, waterless place, the coins are likely to have not survived in pristine condition.

Their marketing tactics almost singlehandedly caused the crash in popularity of world coins in the early 1980's. The "Franklin Mint" still exists, but they don't make coins anymore. Funny, that.

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Not sure if these are your fancy, but beautifulcoins.com has some fantastic items. I have bought from them, and I think others here have as well, and I was very satisfied. They list mintage and composition of each coin as well. I think the owner is a member here too....

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Thank you tights24!

I enjoy taking all the coin pictures myself (instead of using the mint-provided pictures that we see everywhere else), and being able to show them "full screen" (800x800) in the "Gallery" section. I guess I'm getting older, many time I will discover small details only after looking at the large picture.

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I guess I'm getting older, many time I will discover small details only after looking at the large picture.

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Now you know why my pics are so big.