Allens Inc Foreign Coins Department

Wow, thq - they do have quite an inventory! Thank you for sharing.

I didn't see any real bargains in French coins either sel, but I did see a few Bordeaux mint 5 Francs that interested me. There is also a 1762 Holland rider (ducaton), which is pretty unusual. For someone who is trying to collect a coin from every country in the world, it's a pretty good source....where else would you go to get a Burundi franc or a Botswana pula?

I started collecting world coins leafing through albums and going through boxes in shops. Not too many dealers doing that anymore.

Not surprising that the US coin market in detail is much better understood by both collectors and dealers in the US.

As a collector across the whole of numismatics, I need and have perhaps accumulated over a lifetime, a wider body of knowledge, (includes pricing), that also includes World coinages generally, as well as ancients and medieval.

For US coins, CCF is my 'go to'.