No comments about Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money.

No comments about The Coins of Colonial America: World Trade Coins of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries.

No comments about The Official U.S. Mint Morgan Dollars Coin Album: 1891-1921.

2 comments about The Official Blackbook Price Guide to U.S. Paper Money 2008, 40th Edition (Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money).

1. As an auctioneer i use this to assist me grading currency for upcoming public auctions. I want to know what everything is worth before I sell it. This book is easy to use and is accurate in its valuations and methods for obtaining valuations based upon accepted grading standards. I do wish they would include more on local currency issued by local banks many years ago. I know that these items are worth more in their home areas than others, but guidelines for these would be a great addition to this book. I do find this book to be invaluable other than that and understand that it would be impossible to put all locally issued notes in such a publication. All in all......it is a great asset to my business



2. An excellent guide book For identifying and pricing U.S. paper money. Whether it be large or small, you can find it all in this publication.
   The broadest spectrum of denomenations, types,series,districts and conditions of notes is represented here. I consider it an excellent reference source.

5 comments about Collecting World Coins: More Than a Century of Circulating Issues : 1901-Present (Collecting World Coins).

1. This is way more affordable and sufficient for the average coin collector who is interested in circulated coins of the world. Unless you want information on the modern commemoratives, this is the book for you.
   
   I just wish they made one like it for the 19th century as well.



2. If your coin collecting started from a handful of change brought back from some exotic place by an uncle and has moved only a little ahead ever since, this is your book. This catalogue includes only "real" coins i.e. those which were available at face value not at issue price when issued and which were or still are used in actual transactions. It is neatly divided by countries and the coins are arranged according to their denominations, most of coins are represented in black and white photographs.
   However, you should bear in mind that current circulating coins (and conseqently this catalogue) are just a part of a vast numismatic empire. Collecting is just like eating - you may be happy with the starters and live on salads and pasta for ever but at some point you may want to move ahead to more serious dishes - in this case commemorative coins and issues before 1901.
   This is a perfect book for a coin collecting beginner but if you consider yourself a serious coin collector you should avoid starters and move on the real stuff. Krause will be more than happy to help you!



3. This book, like the Standard Catalog of World coins (1901-present) also by Krause et al, contains all you need to identify and price nearly every coin from every nation minted since 1901. The book begins with an identification guide containing images of common themes on each nation's coins (for example, the eagle on Egypt's coins), a chart/list of the various number systems (so you can read the denominations and dates on Arabic, Chinese/Japanese/Korean, Hebrew, and Thai coins, just to name a few), and a Hejira-Christian date chart (important for dating Arabic coins).

   The main section of the book is organized first by country, then by era/dynasty, next by denomination (lowest to highest), and last by style (with KM number). Within each style are a list of dates, mintages, and prices at various conditions.

   The main differences between this book and Standard Catalog of World Coins appear to be: (1) this book is half the thickness and half the weight, (2) this book is printed on higher-quality paper, and (3) this book doesn't contain as many coins that never went into circulation (commemoratives, etc.). So one might say that this book is aimed toward the collector, while the Standard Catalog is geared more toward the dealer.




4. Chester Krause, et.al.'s Collecting World Coins widens the focus to world coins from 1901 to the present, appearing in its updated 9th edition to cover 330 coin-issuing countries and states. Over 20,000 coins are listed by date and valued in up to four grade levels. The black and white coin photos here are even more extensive and essential for identification.



5. Adequate-resolution black-and-white photographs of the vast majority (if not all) of the 20th century world circulation business-strike coinage.

   Especially historically accurate. For example Germany is divided into the coinage of various coin-minting units of government over its tumultuous and shattered 20th-century history: Anhalt-Dessau, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Hamburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe-Detmold, Lubeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg, Prussia, Reuss-Obergreiz, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Waldeck-Pyrmont, Wurttemberg, German Empire (1871-1918), Weimar Republic (1919-1933), Third Reich (1933-1945), Federal Republic of Germany (West & unified) (1945-present), Saarland (1945-1957), and German Democratic Republic (East)(1945-1990). I consider that nation-state categorization alone impressive and intimate knowledge of coinage production in Germany, let alone the over-300 coin types documented among all of those coin-producing governments. Similar detail is taken with a multitude of other countries worldwide, with whose history I am less familiar.

   Number of coins produced each year are given as are prices for typically 3 grades: very fine, extremely fine, and uncirculated.

   The only way that Kraus could "improve" this book is to release a 19th century edition, an 18th century edition, a 17th century edition, and so forth, because it is disappointing to have the history truncated at 1901. Although I am not aware of such per-century editions slicing horizontally across the world, Krause has produced vertical slices by country, such as the history of German coins spanning multiple centuries, which of course overlaps in the 20th century with this book.

No comments about The Stamp-Seals of Ancient Cyprus (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph, 52).

No comments about Tokens and medals: A guide to the identification and values of United States exonumia.

2 comments about Us Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide (Official Whitman Guidebook).

1. This is a better that average book if you are interested in looking for what to look for in a fake coin. There are descent photos and information on tell tale signs. There is no real model to tell you of any specific markings to determine if it is a genuine coin, just what to look for in a fake. Better detail, die marking information and die pairing would have made this a great book. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in stepping into the gold coin market.



2. As a budding gold coin collector, this book is a must have. Currently, I have 4 gold coins in my collection. Two have been graded and are genuine specimens, one was returned counterfeit, and one I have yet to send in. Now, I have a guide to help me screen my coins.
   
   The picture quality alone of the coins shown in this book makes it a buy. They are most helpful in showing you what to look for. Having only heard of the "Omega Man" up to this point, there are a few of those coins pictured in the book.
   
   If only the grading service I use would return coins telling you what makes it a counterfeit like the book shows you.
   
   I rated it at 4 starts because I think there should be more than the 200 pictures. Also, more info on the "Omega Man" and other history of counterfeiting would be nice to have. When was the first "Omega Man" coin discovered?

No comments about European crowns, 1700-1800.

1 comments about United States Pattern Coins: Experimental and Trial Pieces.

1. It would appear that the idea behind this valuable reference guide was that it become a mainstay of study in this in-depth and exotic world of United States pattern, experimental and trial strike pieces, and it looks like that idea has been fulfilled. I would also add that with this fairly new research guide, there is more information available to interested coin collectors in this realm than ever before. Up until now there was Adams and Woodin, Judd, Pollack and now this reference book, one which is quite essential to anyone attempting to build a library in which to study this most interesting area of Numismatics. As a professional coin dealer I strongly recommend the aquisition of this great reference book to all who are interested in this area of US coinage.