Current Foreign Coins Tough To Come By?

Well, speaking of my reality, a Brazilian who makes a collection of foreign coins:

I always find good finds in local numismatics, both in person and online.

I don't know where you are from, but I get a lot of recent coins like that, and at a good price.

Few countries issue coins for circulation as regularly as the USA, and few countries release their coins so early in the year.

In the UK, no £2 coins have been issued for circulation since 2016, and no 2p pieces since 2017... and I have yet to find a 2017 one in change!

The only two foreign countries I spent any time in last year were South Africa and Costa Rica. I found one solitary 2019 SA 10c and the newest Costa Rican coin I found was dated 2017.

Often there are particular reasons why you never see recent dates of certain denominations. For example, in France, vast numbers of 50-cent and 1-euro coins were struck in 1999-2002 to prepare for the introduction of the Euro. At the end of 2002 the Banque de France still had huge numbers of the coins in stock, and there has been no need since to strike any more for circulation.

If I understand your question, it is because circulating coins less than 10 years old are only worth their face value (unless they are in the high UNC grades and certified as such).

It is not worth it to sell and ship them on ebay, except for high denominations.

If you sell a coin for $1 on ebay, and charge 63 cents to cover basic 1st class postage, you only make abouit 50 cents on the sale.