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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1041084, member: 57463&quot;]Afsakið… Fyrirgefðu ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Your complaint to Krause probably is just annoying to them, not informative.&nbsp; I do not work for Krause.&nbsp; I am not a customer.&nbsp; I just know bit about the cataloguing from once having had the same kinds of questions years ago about another line of coinage.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It happens that a prepackaged set has less demand than any of the individual coins.&nbsp; It also happens that the individual coins will go to separate markets where the demands are higher in aggregate.&nbsp; We see this in US coins, for instance, where collectors who pursue Date and Mint of a single series, must get their San Francisco coins from Mint (or Proof) sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My own interest years ago was in the coins of Tibet.&nbsp; Coins that were obviously rare were priced in the same ranges as modern commemoratives -- East and West Germany both, for instance -- or common 19th century coins from Italy, for instance.&nbsp; The answer is simple: demand.&nbsp; Demand drives prices.&nbsp; It is an axiom of economics that demand is more important than supply.&nbsp; We speak too easily of &quot;supply and demand&quot; but they are not equally weighted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Three Icelandic proof 1961 gold 500 K coins is all it takes to meet the demand.&nbsp; If you think otherwise, buy them all and see if you get rich overnight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Krause -- or any other catalogue -- only knows prices reported to them.&nbsp; Collectors can pay any price, but if the sale is not recorded and made public, Krause is limited.&nbsp; They do have their own long list of experts published in the fronts of their catalogs -- a mere 100 or so people, again, buying and selling, talking and listening.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have better knowledge, feel free to use the profits from those three gold coins to launch your own numismatic information enterprise.&nbsp; Some people keep their knowledge to themselves.&nbsp; Other people share it.&nbsp; If you know more than Krause, then you have the right to consider yourself an expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sjáumst![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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