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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iceman57, post: 2013416, member: 16712&quot;]Hi Joe...Thank you.</p><p>what got me into Icelandic coins was for one , I&#039;m half Icelandic but the main reason is that I collect U.S. coins too and being that U.S. coins are getting very expensive for me because I like early U.S. coinage in Unc and we all know how much they go for,,,,as the saying goes Champagne taste with a beer pocketbook. As far as world coin&#039;s as a investment is very tricky some go up in value but it&#039;s a long term thing ,,not something I would depend on for my old age. While US coins has a much larger collector base with people willing to pay top dollar for most coins minted before 1935 really helps drive the market,,,,its almost like a frenzy so to say.</p><p>mintage of world coins are usually lower than the US coins but that has no effect on prices of world coins and one of the reason for such low prices of world coins is the Krause world coin price guide for collectors of these coins in the US ,,if you look at other price guides from other countries you will find that they are higher in value. but since most world coin collector live in the US ,,the Krause book is the bible of world coins. If my Icelandic coins were US coins with these low mintages they would be worth a large fortune[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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