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Iceman

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  1. 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
  2. One of my latest upgrade to my Icelandic coin collection....
  3. Congrat's on your grades . You Shandy and William guess the grades...Great job guys....
  4. 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.
  5. Thank you jgenn for the info and I will add more entry.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Thank you .... A yes very happy with the grades I got....
  12. 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.
  13. Well it looks like sellers will not be able to list there coins on ebay if they are going to used time payments in there listings for the coins there going to list. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EBAY IS GOING TO STOP THE SALE OF COIN'S.....You just going to pay in full at the time of sale.
  14. THANK YOU....I may look at hundreds of each type or year for each coins and about 70 percent of them I found on ebay. Some of the coins in this submission I've had for over 14 years like the 10 Aurar's and the 50 Kronur's and the others anywhere from 10 to one year ago. and the 1957 1 Krona I found about 3 weeks ago on ebay. Once in a while someone puts up a good one. Why do you have to go to another country to see the coin's you are looking for ...that must be really hard or expensive to do.
  15. These are the results of my recent submission ....Very happy with the grades I received. I'm still in a bit of disbelieve about finding a 1957 1 Krona in such great condition a MS-66.... It makes me wonder what other gems are out there.
  16. Thank you buddy ... I was supposed to have had this fixed some four months ago but covid got in the way.
  17. Thank you .....I did get the results from the express tier and the 1966 2 kronur thick planchet got a MS-65 and the 2000 Gold 10,000 Kronur got a PF 69 Ultra Cameo. I will try to post pictures but its rather hard right now since my right arm is in a sling from a surgery I just had.
  18. OHHHH YEAAAA They certainly stole the idea from the Canadians I too was never aware they did this but then I don't collect Canadian coins.
  19. Back on June 2nd I submitted 21 Icelandic Coin for grading that I have collected for a number of years and finally decided to have them graded and did very well with them. I also mentioned that I had around 30 more to send in as well . Its been nearly 3 months now and I sent in a total of 22 more coins.... Most of these coins are from the Republic era that span from 1946 to 1980. What I sent in was a bunch of 10 Aurar from 65 to 73 a few 1 Krona 61 70, 71, both 73's and to my delight a newly acquired ...last week.... a beautiful Gem 1957 1 Krona I sent one in 3 months back and it came home a MS63 which I was happy with because it had a light fingerprint ..this year and the 57 is very very hard to find in MS UNC ...But the new 57 is in incredible condition and it will not surprise me if it gets a MS66 . and the other coins I got after the last submission is a 1959 5 Aurar and again the last one only got a 63 but this one should get a least a 65 These late 50's coins are really tough to find in very nice condition....I just got lucky The other coins are a 50 Aurar and a 66 2 Kronur normal planchet and 5 Kronur and a few 10 and 50 Kronur coins that should all grade around the MS 64 to 66 But The best two are the 1966 Thick Planchet 2 Kronur and the 2000 10,000 Kronur Gold Comm in ultra cameo... I had both of these coins for years but about seven years ago I sold all my Icelandic Comm's because I needed cash and the only one I didn't have was the 1961 Jon Proof ...But a friend in Iceland did come across one that he sold at auction and got over $5000 for it and if I had the money It would have been in my collection...Boyyy The up and downs of collecting ....Its madding As you can imagine it has been very costly to replace all these coins but its finished now and that makes me happy again..... I will post the results when I get them ...I did send in the 66 and 2000 gold in Express Tier and they got them today....This coming Friday.........I hope
  20. I remember....MikeKing Idhair TomB Truth Teller Beijim and BushMan
  21. A few years ago when this chat forum was at its height I would visit two maybe three times a day and even thou I didn't post a lot I've always greatly enjoyed the reading of others and always found them interesting. But when NGC made all these changes as others have mentioned in this thread I had a hard time dealing with this because I had trouble login on and when I was able too it would never save my login info so after a while of seeing the forum go to (down under) and I don't mean Australia I just wandered off to other sites and the journal seemed to have suffered as well and to this day they are still pretty much dead with only a few handful of members that post as well as respond to others journals. I truly hope to see NGC forums get much better with more people posting.
  22. NOOOOOO............ Please Don't..... I'm enjoying the back and fourth conversation of this thread.