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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 5564805, member: 112&quot;]We&#039;re in agreement on that. But I&#039;d use and or add a different term for C - Collector Demand/Popularity.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s one thing that never comes up, what creates or causes collector demand/popularity ? Nobody ever discusses that, they never even mention it. So what&#039;s the answer ? A couple of things really, exposure for one. Before a coin can become popular/in demand people have to first be aware of it. They need to be able to see it to say - I like that ! And how does that happen ? Slowly, sometimes very slowly. But when it does happen if often starts on coin forums just like this one. People post pics of coins they obtain, they talk about them, inform others about the history etc etc behind them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I did this myself, to a degree at least, with Netherlands gold ducats. When I first started collecting them, posting pics of them, writing articles about them, this forum was just getting started. And of course I posted about them on all the other forums too. And back then, those coins were dirt cheap, even high grade examples, you could often buy them for little more than melt. But within about 3 years, they became so popular because people were being exposed to them that I became my own worst enemy - prices had doubled, tripled, quadrupled in some cases. And I had to start paying out the nose for the coins ! My point of course is that exposure creates and increases popularity.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there&#039;s articles and or books. But here&#039;s the thing and it&#039;s an important thing. Most of the articles/books, if there ever are any, about coins from different countries are usually written in the language of that country. And unless you can read that language articles and books aren&#039;t gonna do ya a whole lot of good. Especially when you consider that most collectors aren&#039;t going to plop down significant money for a coin that they know nothing about. And if there are no books and or articles that they can read because they don&#039;t know that language - well, that puts a significant crimp on that coin or series gaining any popularity to speak of.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when ya stop and actually look at things the number of books and articles published on US coins so far outstrips the numbers for world coins that it&#039;s hard to even put it into perspective ! For many world coins there aren&#039;t any articles/books or so few of them as to hardly matter. And then, written in a language that few can read unless you happen to be from that specific country. And it&#039;s not just people in the US who can&#039;t read the books/articles - it&#039;s all the other people in all the other countries too.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when ya think about it even more you find out that the most popular coins from other countries do have books/articles written in English. For example the UK, they abound. Then there&#039;s Spain/Colonial Spain, some France, and some Germany, and that&#039;s about it. And that, I believe, is largely why those countries happen to be among the most popular of world coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the end knowledge and exposure drives and increases popularity/collector demand. Without it, it&#039;s hard to come by.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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