Iceman

Congrad's on winning some of the prizes. I always wanted to own some die's they are so cool. I can't relate to enjoying the opportunity to yell BINGO because sadly,,, but only have played the game some dozen time I never won.. came very close but no chicken dinner. I'm hoping to attend the ANA show next year. Great story Gary Thanks

Thank you Mike ...Your friggin right..

One of my latest upgrade to my Icelandic coin collection....

Congrat's on your grades . You Shandy and William guess the grades...Great job guys....

Congratulation on a well deserve awards . You worked very hard for them and I hope you enjoy that special feeling that goes with the devotion you showed us and a inspiration for all Congrad's again and keep up the great work.

Thank you jgenn for the info and I will add more entry.

Hi Gary I'm so happy you made to Iceland to have your daughters wedding and from the looks of your photo you had a blast. I have not been on the site for some time but I will take the time to read your post. Congrats to your daughter and son in-law and I wish them the best for the future.

One hundred years ago in 1922 Iceland issued there first ever partial set of legal tender coins the 10 and 25 Aurar's. With a growing nation that was in desperate need for coinage because all the coins used up to that time was from other nation's like Denmark, Norway or they would use tokens that was issued by large merchants companies that was either based in Iceland or Denmark and even the Faroe Islands. Iceland banned the use of tokens prior to 1922 because merchants can manipulate the cost of such things as bread For instead when the consumer tried to pay for a loaf bread using a token they were given in change for one free rye bread the merchant would tell the person at a later date that the cost of the bread as risen and the token was no longer acquit for the promise of one free loaf of bread causing the consumer to fork over more funds for something they should have been given for free from the get-go. The first and only coins for this year was the 10 and 25 Aurar minted in Copenhagen Denmark and in 1925 was when the next denominations was produced the 1 Krona (singular) and 2 Kronur (plural). It took 100 Aurar's to make a single 1 Krona and in 1926 was when the final three denominations was produced the 1 Eyrir (singular) and the 2 and 5 Aurar's (plural). It took four years to produce the seven coins needed to complete a set of coins comprising of all denominations. The 1 Eyrir and the 2 and 5 Aurar's minted by the Copenhagen mint was made of a 95% copper 4% Tin 1% Zink from 1926 to 1939 but they did mint a few 2 Aurar's dated 1940 before the London's Royal Mint in England Took over the mintage of all the coins dated from 1940 -1942 after Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany. They changed the composition of all the copper coins dated 1940 to 95.5% Cu 3% Sn 1% Zn but they made one final change for the dated 1942 Copper coins to 97% Cu 0.5% Tn 2.5% Sn . From my understanding according to the records of the Royal Mint the new updated second metal change accrue part way into the production of the 1940 dated 5 Aurar so there are two different metal composition varieties for the 1940 5 Aurar coin but none for the dated 1940 1 Eyrir and 2 Aurar since they were all ready minted. The royal mint did not always produce the individual coin denomination the year that was indicated on the coin and it is believed that some coins was minted as far as two years after the date like some of the coins dated 1942. and the 1940 1 Krona and 2 Kronur was produced as far as into 1944. On a interesting note Staffen Bjorkman noted in his 15 page summary on Icelandic coins 1918 to1959 he made mention of a 1925 1 Eyrir with a mintage of 4000 pieces which the Icelandic national museum collection never made any mention of one ever having existed but this may only be nothing more then the first batch of 1926 Eyrir's ( 4000 coins ) was just the number of coins that was minted in 1925 for the 1926 Eyrir just like the U.S. mint does by Producing the following year's coins. Record keeping can be a problem if its not written down correctly. There are some interesting varieties for the 1 Eyrir from this time period some known and some not, But that's for another journal. I have tried to research the Copenhagen mint records online and to no avail I couldn't find any records having to do with the minting of Icelandic coins. Maybe I need to hop on a plane to Denmark. Thank you for reading my journal entry and I'm going to write more about the mintage of Iceland Kingdom Era coinage in my near upcoming journals

Thank you ...........kenlee47

That was a very moving journal you wrote and there was many things that I can relate to from having papers published to being a workaholic as well as spending a great deal of time on my collections. I always wonder ,,like the plaque you mentioned in your journal will my collections of things and awards be dumbed in some dumpster or disregarded as anything of any value or worth to anyone....and I don't mean monetary worth but a value that is based upon me as a individual,,,, a person of worthiness?

Your coins came out very good. I bought Mark Goodman's book some time ago but really have not got around to buying the camera and other equipment .....but I do have a really nice camera stand that my friend gave me...we use it to photograph fossils for publication Now I just need to get the other stuff...hopefully in the near future.

Thank you.....The 70 Krona I figured a 63-64 and the 50 Aurar at 67 being 68 is a hard grade to get. I'm starting to get rather good at this.... But the two 73's krona's because of the subdued luster i figured the both would have come back 64's.maybe 65's at best.

Thank you .... A yes very happy with the grades I got....

Here are some new coins I added to my Icelandic sets.

I know what you mean about having to look at the coin in hand to determent the grade from photo and it can be very difficult. I got rather good at it over the past 17 years of searching on ebay and other sites as long as the seller has good photos . what I hate is when these auction houses in Europe post pictures of coins using some kind of photo technique that hide the luster of the coin...they almost look like a animation of the coin and can be very deceiving.. I guess they do this on purpose in order to hind the true appearance of the coin. What kind of coins are you looking for ...The U.S.. auction houses like Heritage and Stacks has great amount of foreign coins that come up for auction. I would give them a try.