ice maiden

laurentyvan · January 17, 2004 10:36PM

I haven't looked at a lot of Icelandic coins-this one caught my fancy. I especially like the stylized reverse but the simplicity and elegance of the obverse is what caught my eye initially.

Does anyone do Iceland to any extent?

ajaan · January 17, 2004 10:39PM

Geez, except for the maiden part I thought you were going to post a photo of my ex-wife.

MadMuffin · January 17, 2004 11:02PM

I have a few Iceland coins in my collection. They are quite available in Denmark where I live. But it's not a high priority area - Icelandic coins are usually cheap and fairly easy to find. The only thing that is hard to find are the proof sets. They are more available on Ebay.

Marcel

cosmicdebris · January 17, 2004 11:56PM

tbirde56 · January 18, 2004 12:31AM

Those silver '74 1100th anniversary of the first settlement commems are great! I hope to find them at a good price one day as well.
I have a basic type set minus the expensive ($10+) and a few of the more modern pieces. If anyone has any of the following, I'd be interested:
50 Kr 1968
50 au 1986
5 Kr 1996+
10 Kr 1996+
50 Kr 1987+
100 Kr 1995+

MacCrimmon · January 18, 2004 12:36AM

Udderly delightful!

I was going to ask if it was silver, but I see our prescient ID King, came flying in with the answer!

1jester · January 18, 2004 12:40AM

Interesting design. I don't have any coins from Iceland.

cacheman · January 18, 2004 1:07AM

who are you trying to fool....that's the milk maiden!

farthing · January 18, 2004 1:23AM

I've been working on a non-gold Iceland type set for awhile now. I'm currently missing the 1 Eyrir from 1926-39, the silver 1974 commemorative set, and the coins with a face value of 100 Kr and above.

I'm trying to decide between getting the mint set or proof set of the 1974 commemoratives. The proofs like yours are stunning!

With the coins I just got from Kulhi Link I am more than 50% complete on a full date set 1926-2000

laurentyvan · January 18, 2004 1:29AM

The real pity here is that my image is off- a little fuzzy, doesn't show the cameo beauty and the coin would be nicer if I had imaged it smaller. The lines which are thin and graceful in hand tend to bulk up in the too-large image I did. But, I'm glad to see there are others who like Icelandic coins-every country seems to have beautiful things to offer. We see a lot of the same stuff here from time to time so I'm always looking for something a little different. My problem is that 9 times out of 10 what is new to me can be old hat to others.

Shipcoin · January 18, 2004 1:43AM

Great coin, Laurent! interesting coat of arms and , I say, an an usual design! I guess that it is silver?

Clankeye · January 18, 2004 3:32AM

Any country that could produce Bjork, I would trust to design a nice, kind of off the wall coin.

I like that.

Clankeye

tbirde56 · January 18, 2004 4:17AM

The coat of arms includes a sea eagle, dragon, bull and giant, considered the protectors of the land and are legendarily reputed to have protected Iceland against Danish king Harald Blatand's invasion.
Both coins are sterling silver (.925) with the 500 Kronur containing .5968 of an ounce and the 1000 Kronur containing .8923 of an ounce. The 1000 Kronur features the same coat of arms and a design featuring two Vikings with a blazing fire lit to mark possession of their land.

rhound1977 · January 18, 2004 4:23AM

That is a nice one, I have it myslef, along with quite a few others, I lived there for three years back in the late 70's early 80's..

ice maiden

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