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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 961984, member: 68&quot;]Nice site!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some small countries with tiny mintages seem to attract much more interest than others.&nbsp; For instance predecimal Fijian coins tend to be fairly common in nice condition but still bring strong prices.&nbsp; The decimal coins tend to be scarce but there&#039;s no demand.&nbsp; Western Samoa gets no attention despite very low mintages.&nbsp; Great collectible countries like New Caledonia can be hit and miss with some popular and some not.</p><p><br /></p><p>People are starting to pay a lot more attention to some of the more desirable and low mintage moderns even when they were minted by the Franklin Mint.&nbsp; All their coins were very well done but they got a bad reputation since they tended to swamp demand.&nbsp; Well, now people are beginning to see some of these issues aren&#039;t all that common and some are quite scarce.&nbsp; A few decades of very high attrition doesn&#039;t hurt.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No, don&#039;t look at mintage in a vacuum.&nbsp; The number of coins that were actually set aside for the future is by far more important.&nbsp; You also need to consider the attrition.&nbsp; A Bahamian proof set is only going to have about 1% attrition because the coins aren&#039;t going to be spent or tossed out in the garbage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately the pricing of collectibles is tied primarily to demand. You can&#039;t really predict demand but if you talk to collectors about their passion you&#039;ll hear the same themes playing over and over.&nbsp; It&#039;s about quality, and rarity, and historical importance.&nbsp; It&#039;s about artistic merit and things they used when and were common when they were children.&nbsp; It&#039;s about birth years and where they or their grandparents were born.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Consider all these factors if you want to set coins aside.&nbsp; Better yet learn a series or a bunch of series and try to collect them.&nbsp; Until you actually do the foot work or scour the price lists you might never even notice things like the pre-1940 Icelandic coins are scarce in unc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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