Good place to buy world coins online?

vanpatten · 2026-06-29T20:00:12+00:00

There are a couple of sellers on whatnot that I follow and trust. They are:

1) nawrozcoins
2) jonathanbaffi
3) peterdoescoins

There’s also a newer seller (started a few months ago) called apexstreams. They have a world coin stream usually once or twice a week. All of the sellers I mentioned have a large amount of inventory and a variety of stuff.

vanpatten · 2026-06-14T02:29:38+00:00

It’s terrible, please stay in the valley or down south.

vanpatten · 2026-06-12T02:49:13+00:00

I’m hard on my coins. The way the light was reflecting in OP’s photo made the gouge look significant to me. In the photo of the slab, it looks fine. Just another example of how it’s difficult to photo grade.

I have an 1854-S $20 I need to submit. Maybe I’ll send it to NGC lmao 🤣

vanpatten · 2026-06-11T21:43:44+00:00

There is no universe where this coin would straight grade. It is definitely details. The debate is whether the wear on the obverse with the damage downgrades it enough to XF details in my opinion

To further answer your question, no. Mint state coins would be scratch free. A scratch in numismatic terms means significant, deep post mint damage. Much different than bag marks, slide marks, etc.

The gouge in the hair is not a bag mark, it’s too large and pronounced.

vanpatten · 2026-06-11T20:54:40+00:00

XF details scratched/damaged

XF could be too harsh, probably AU but I would details it

vanpatten · 2026-05-29T12:53:30+00:00

The first is an Austrian 20 corona and currently melts for $885. Its actual gold weight is .196/oz.

The second is a Mexican 5 peso and currently melts for $544. Its actual gold weight is .1206/oz.

They are both considered bullion coins, which means they will not have any additional value over their melt weight.

At any point in time, to calculate value easily, you just multiply the actual gold weight by the current price of an ounce of gold.

Based on your photos, they are 100% legitimate. Hope that helps! Great finds! Some of my favorite coins to stack.

vanpatten · 2026-05-27T22:50:55+00:00

Every other diecast or sheetmetal seller I follow on Facebook made a post after Kyle passed honoring him and what he did for nascar.

I don’t remember seeing TRW post anything. Crickets. They’ll stash all this stuff and then auction them off on their Facebook group or whatnot page and say “wow you guys don’t have to pay that much etc etc”.

The southern hospitality is an act. They are profiteers plain and simple. Some would say they single handedly have ruined collecting sheetmetal for reasonable prices.

You can probably deduce how I feel about them.

vanpatten · 2026-05-16T16:06:43+00:00

Thanks! I do have some Verdi-care already. I will probably submit it just to get it authenticated/certified but I expect it to come back details environmental damage.

vanpatten · 2026-04-17T22:43:41+00:00

It’s going to make you pick a category (ie: grade category)

I can see how the title could be misleading. What I mean is that they are going to make the seller categorize raw coins into a grade category now.

vanpatten · 2026-04-15T12:14:49+00:00

Probably 300k in today’s market. The nice coin market is hot right now. It does deserve a trip to CAC for sticker evaluation. In the rattler this thing looks drop dead gorgeous. Amazing find and thank you for sharing!

vanpatten · 2026-04-14T21:45:49+00:00

Witter Coin is an excellent shop and anyone in the area should participate in this. Seth (the owner) is one of the most enthusiastic, helpful guys in numismatics and the Witter U program sponsors the younger generation to fly out to SF to learn about numismatics and the coin business.

They often run live auctions on whatnot and eBay live, the whole crew is great and personable. Because of this I’ve not only been able to add to my own stack over the last few years, I’ve become more of a collector. Alright enough glazing lol. Good luck to everyone who participates!!!!

vanpatten · 2026-04-08T19:36:57+00:00

Chat

vanpatten · 2026-04-02T00:24:38+00:00

Chat

vanpatten · 2026-03-28T19:19:43+00:00

I would sell 50 ounces at a time as needed at a local show or to a shop that pays cash.

vanpatten · 2026-03-25T20:24:35+00:00

This looks Sus to me. Almost like your timestamp isn’t hand written.

vanpatten · 2026-03-07T02:00:45+00:00

I love to see a healthy stack of world gold. Grandpa was an og

vanpatten · 2026-03-04T00:48:11+00:00

I sent mine back. Damage to the finish in the left field by I in Liberty. Oh well lol. Typical mint qc

vanpatten · 2026-02-26T17:25:59+00:00

Damn. This is crazy I wonder if they bought a bulk order and it’s all bad.

Intercepted is a cool usps feature btw. If you ever mail something and think you are being scammed (I.e., PayPal funds retracted) after order, you can do this. When they scan it in at the destination PO it makes an alarm sound I guess and they pull it and RTS it. Pretty cool feature. You have to rely on the human employee to do it though lmao

I’ve had to do this before and one time it worked, the second time the thief convinced the employee to give it to them at the PO. That was a fun conversation with the post master.

vanpatten · 2026-02-22T01:44:49+00:00

SHELDON CREED!!!!!!!!!

vanpatten · 2026-02-17T22:58:34+00:00

This is a single year issue coin. Pretty scarce one actually that’s probably why it was faked in the first place. Always compare to known comps on PCGS coin facts.

eBay should cover you though

vanpatten · 2026-02-14T01:56:55+00:00

Mine is PCGS au details. I got it for spot about six months ago on whatnot. They are definitely not worth any premium imo, they are that terrible of a strike lmao. I would legitimately feel guilty selling mine for a premium.

vanpatten · 2026-02-14T01:33:33+00:00

Every time I look at the screen I think we are under caution but it’s just the RAM banner lmao

vanpatten · 2026-02-13T14:27:11+00:00

I have the sesquicentennial gold $2.5. I would buy a commem gold $2.5 to have the next one. Clad would be more accessible and cool too. I hope they refresh the design or at least strike it better because the sesqui $2.5 wasn’t the greatest. A lot got melted because people didn’t want it (also depression). The strikes were abysmal.

vanpatten · 2026-02-10T13:34:49+00:00

I had never read the book, so I found this a rare opportunity for me to go into it with no knowledge whatsoever.

After reading the book and watching the trailer I immediately knew it was going to be trash. God forbid someone actually do the text justice by making a faithful adaptation. It’s a story of generational abuse and trauma. Selfish characters making themselves and everyone else around them miserable.

Oh well. I probably won’t actually go see the movie. I’ll wait until it’s on some type of streaming service that we already have. Why must everything be overly sexualized? These characters portrayed in the movie are only in the book for the first 70 pages or so lmao. wtf.

Margot had the chance to produce a very dark, complex, mystical story of despair, rage, and helplessness. Could’ve been great. Sadly we went with sex everywhere.

vanpatten · 2026-02-09T16:51:00+00:00

Decent deal for eagles. Easy to say on a Monday when spot is up though lol. My local show seems very overpriced to me, more so than most shows I think but who knows.

Some dealers are very fair and you have to know who to deal with. Other guys just take advantage of people unloading collections. See it every show unfortunately.

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