Where did I get my coins from?

To collect coins of 2000 as "soon" as in 2001 or in 2002 was not easy.
Some countries issued their 2000-coins as late as 2001 or 2002, the Krause&Mishler-cataloge is not really up-to-date.
I tried to get circulating coins, not the commemoratives, and those coins are cheap, so many dealers or eBay did not sell them.
In the beginning I got a lot of coins by writing to collectors living in the country I wanted a coin and used those two big lists of collectors Coin Traders of the World (not existing no more) and Listado de Colleccionistas, which everybody will know.
So I traded with e.g. Jorge Cunha(Portugal) , Marc Nollet(Belgium), Gianfranco Cavallin(Italy), Vasily Vasilenko (Belarus)......(and everything is a lot easier, if a collector has a homepage).

Then I searched the web for dealers of world coins and found a lot:

And of course I look into American eBay, German eBay and Spanish eBay and into Brasilian Auctions.
Interesting auctions at qoop (Netherlands) and Kiermasz (Poland)
Sometimes very useful: a currency-converter
I am a member of PayPal - widespread and the fastest way to send money.
Weekly news about the newest coins you can get at WBCC.
And last: have a look into the site of the 2000-collection of Gary Reitenbach (USA)

July 2004