What's your perception?

It was incredible.

It absolutely was incredible.

I had my booth directly at the entrance.

At 10 o'clock, they do the opening ceremony, they cut the ribbon.

And within the next 10 minutes, about 2,000 people were running through the entrance.

This was only the beginning.

But right now...

Clearly, if there are dolphins or owls and great motifs on the design, that's going to add value to, because it's going to add interest, right?

I want to show you another example, because not as with your app coins, we have here something completely different.

Nobody cares about rarities.

we care about the popularity of a depicted subject or the popularity of a coin type.

I've brought you something that is known as the tribute penny, which is connected to the Bible, where it is asked whether people should give taxes to the emperor.

And people always thought that when Jesus was thinking about that, he should have had a denarius of Tiberius in his hand because that was the coin type that was struck around that time.

We do not know whether this is true, but a certain coin type of Tiberius has been marketed as a tribute penny.

Does this not fit into your paradigm of coinage here? Is Judaica another category? Where does Judaica fit?

A collector really...

Yes, and at that point, I might tell you a little bit about the system IAPN has built up in cooperation with a lot of national coin associations because...

It's very difficult to detect fakes when you're not in the very field of where the fakes are coming from.

What I mean is when you have a Norwegian coin and it's a good fake, you have to know not coins, but Norwegian coins in order to detect it.

You have to have seen a lot of coins from the same type.

So in Europe, you have these associations who have specialists for all kinds of coins.

I remember when I was, it's half a life ago, I was working as the secretary for the anti-forgery committee of the IAPN.

So, you know, I think that's very interesting.

Yeah

... for me it's so interesting because we know the history of these people, we know exactly, uh, how they felt, how they, uh, um...

We have a lot of information about them, and it's mirroring in the coin collection.

So you have, um...

Perhaps I, I tell a little bit about the, the history of these two people.

We have first, um, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the King of Prussia.

He was the son of, uh, Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Of that name.

... is Tiffany glass

... that you are showing this coin because I have an example for you.

Uh, I, um, thought I also talk a little bit about private mint because we have, uh, now only t- uh, talked about, uh, state mints.

And I often hear from collectors, uh, they often ask me, "Does it make sense to buy products from private mints?" And, uh, once again, uh, it all depends.

It all depends on, uh, uh, on the beauty, on, um, on the mintage, and, um, especially on the interest in series.

And, um, when you are showing this coin, uh, we can go back to 2004, because 2004 was the very first time, um, this technique with an inlay in Tiffany, uh, glass was done.

Then there was, um, a series called Tiffany Art, uh, with 999, um, mintage, 999 pieces were struck.

I just, this is how I see the landscape.