The internet connects buyers and sellers like nothing else can. How the average coin collector builds their collection has been changed irrevocably; what the average numismatist collects is changing as well.
Geographical distance is sublimated into shipping fees as the entire world becomes one big coin bazaar.
Five minutes and a smartphone – that’s all a trip to the coin dealer requires in 2016.
Calabrian Greek Nomos, Stater or Didrachm on sale on Ma-Shop for CGB.
CGB specializes in Ancient, foreign World and French coins, not to mention banknotes, medals, tokens and numismatic library supplies (though at the time of writing their inventory on MA Shops does not include books or book supplies). CGB is based in Paris but has a global reach, attending many coin fairs and showsaround the world.
About MA-Shops: MA-Shops is an internet marketplace headquartered in Germany that works with a network of predominantly European coin dealers to sell coins, paper currency, medals, military orders and decorations, stamps and even bottles of wine directly to the collector. Founded by Joachim Schwiening, MA-Shops offers a wide variety of Ancient, Modern, World and U.S. coins.