April 10, 2012 – At the Mint Directors Conference in Vienna the new issue of MintWorld Compendium will be distributed for free. It focuses on “Coin Collectors”. From May 1, 2012 it will be available online for browsing and downloading.
Many external experts and market players have contributed to this most recent issue of MintWorld Compendium. You will read the following texts in the new issue:
Where are collectors found?
Collectors and other coin buyers – Attempt at a definition
Ursula Kampmann
Coin Collecting – From elite hobby to mass phenomenon
Ursula Kampmann
Where are collectors found? Clubs, forums, fairs
Some Questions about – coin associations to Tom Hallenbeck, president of the American Numismatic Association
Some Questions about – coin associations to Kristian Nikol Worbs, president of the German Numismatic Association and president of the Bavarian Numismatic Association
Some Questions about – coin shows to Albert M. Beck, honorary president of the World Money Fair and organizer of the Basel Coin Fair
Some Questions about – internet fora to Olaf Hemsen, founder of the „Numismatic-Café“
Direct Marketing and Mints
360° Marketing: Focus on the Coin Collector
Guido Dohm
Sales Channels from a Mint’s Perspective
Dr. Andreas Schikora
Secondary Market
A Successful Commemorative Coin Issue: The Austrian niobium series
Franz Artmüller and Alfred Gnadenberger
America’s Statehood Quarter Program in Retrospect
Richard Giedroyc
Some Questions about – amazing profit margins for collectors to Michael Vogt and Heimo Steriti
Some Questions about – coin dealers, the most important bridge to collectors to Michael Becker, president of the Berufsverband des deutschen Münzenfachhandels
Live of a collector
Davorin Dragas