Large Denomination U.S. Currency (Cool!)

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Originally Posted by Carlanga

that's cool, how does one get to find the true value of their world coins? I have some gold coins from the middle east I believe they are before wwi and I have showed them in pics to a coin place but I was told its hard to value coins outside the us for them.

I use eBay a lot to try and look up the coins and see if similar coins are for sale. I look only at closed listings to see what the coins actually sold for, not what sellers were asking. World coins have no spending value in the US but they all have numismatic value (meaning coin dealers and collectors buy them). Although many very common world coins are only worth like ten cents or a quarter, you should always look them up because you could have something very valuable and rare.

There are these Krause catalogs of World Coins and they literally list every world coin made since 1600 for all countries, but the catalogs are over 1000 pages each and there are like 6 of them. Each cost around $50-$100 but they are really great if you have a lot of rare or uncommon world coins to identify and value.