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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 670937, member: 112"]Are they as skilled at creating the demand ? No. But then you have to look at what it is that creates that demand. Yes, the Red Book and the old folders played a pert, still play a part. But what does it more than anything else is all the articles in the coin mags, all the books written on the subject, all the press the high end collections get. And perhaps more than anything else, the reason that US coins are so popular and world coins are not is that US coins are so easy to find. They exist in huge numbers for the most part whereas world coins do not. You see, that's the thing. Before you can create a market for something, that something has to exist in numbers great enough that a lot of people can easily have one. And with most world coins, that is not the case. So world coins are not written about, publicized, glorified even, like US coins are. Try finding books or information on Netherland ducats for example. Then try finding articles written about them. All I can tell you is good luck. And this for a coin that was the single most important coin the world has ever known. A coin minted in vitually pure gold, .986. A coin that became so popular, so in demand as money, so widely accepted without question that it caused all other countries of the western world to copy it and make their own. A coin that set the stage and actually allowed worldwide commerce to commence. A coin that was first minted in 1586 and is still being minted today. And yet virtually every single example, every date, every mint can be purchased for less than $1000. With the vast majority of them capable of being purchased for less than $400 each. And ya know what, no one, not a single person has ever been able to assemble even a date set of these coins, let alone a date/mint set. To the best of my knowledge, only 1 person has ever even tried - me.[/QUOTE]

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