What Are Some Of The Most Underappreciated And Undervalued Foreign Coins?

IIRC, Hungarian denars used to be cheap when that guy started (to the extent where other people were also collecting them by the dozen), but are a lot more popular now. I know that I've only managed to get my hands on one Hungarian denar over several years before finding four in one bin a few months ago.

Is that British VG or American VG? I have two or three Victoria silvers, and I think a few later ones (though IIRC nothing from Edward VII yet), but they barely make American VG, if that (particularly the Victoria ones).

[Some googling tells me that the British system has no VG at all, and the British grade corresponding to American VG is "Fair". Is this correct?]

Since the Euro was introduced, the post-2002 issues of Monaco, the Vatican City and San Marino have been much in demand, but the earlier issues by those three tiny countries have been largely neglected, and many of them are much cheaper than the same countries' Euro coins, even though their mintages are often much lower.

I collect Chinese provincial coins, and it is my observation that prices have increased, if only over the past two years.
Case in point, I had two dragon dollars, a 1908 and 1911 empire dollar, both PCGS graded, details. Sold both for about 1600, and now even detailed coins are worth far more than that.

I sent my China Dragon Empire dollar for grading but NGC refused to grade it, think the grading houses are cautious about these type of coins now. Erring on the side of caution.




Definitely not online in my opinion, brick and mortar shops and older collectors I would say.

Heard from other collectors that in almost every major city (before this whole predicament) where there are coins, there's a China dealer/buyer on the prowl paying good money for their coinage, driving the prices up. Anyone can concur ?

Chinese material is about (7) years removed from being relevant to what the thread is asking about!!

People want to know what the NEXT Chinese coinage is before the fact so they can accumulate it and make lots of money (10) years from now...

Problem is Russia coinage is hard to find in the first place, there aren't many overseas at least where I reside.

Not sure whether in Russia itself now they have lots of their own historical coinage.

Heard from veteran collectors that in the 70s/80s when China was less affluent they sold a lot
of their coinage overseas. Did that happen in Russia too ? If it did, most likely most of Russia's
coins probably went to Europe or places that have higher concentration of Russian immigrants ?

IIRC, the Soviet Union used to deny that coin collecting existed at all. (Numismatics, as in coin research, was not denied though, and in fact progressed quite actively.)

I'm not sure what this meant about where the coins ended up, though. I suspect that most of the lower-grade coins on the Russian market right now are post-1991 metal detecting finds, anyway.

That said, Russia, like many other countries these days, forbids export of historical coins without a license (of course people do that anyway, though I, personally, try my best not to), which probably significantly limits foreign availability.

Seconded.


My guess, as had already been mentioned by others, is that what we might want to look for is coins from places that are starting to get richer, and/or more populated; unfortunately, most of those places mostly didn't issue coins until relatively recently.

If I had to guess specifically: the so-called "pitis" coins of assorted sultanates in and around modern-day Indonesia (last time I checked they tended to be offered in huge lots at ludicrously low prices... apparently they still are).