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

By Clifford Mishler, Colin R. Bruce II, Chester L. Krause

Perfect for all world coin collectors, this updated edition features circulating world coin issues of the 20th and 21st centuries. More than 16,000 actual size photos illustrate more than 20,000 coins, with current market valuations presented for each issue in up to four grades of condition. This new edition provides an expanded guide to identifying, grading, and assessing value for each coin, including an international date conversion chart, an international numeral systems chart, a cross-referenced guide to coin denominations, and a foreign exchange table. Countries are alphabetically listed with historic-geographic reference. The coins are then listed in ascending denomination. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873496701
• ISBN13: 9780873496704
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 831 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Much better than the expanded editions

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.

Decent Starter Before Real Food

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...

For the Serious Collector

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,...

Covers 330 coin-issuing countries and states

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.

excellent reference to 20th century world coins

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,...