Product Description

This comprehensive and up-to-date guide to world coins of the 21st century takes much of the legwork out of researching coins. This new addition to the "Standard Catalog" series of world coin books provides collectors with a manageable and easy-to-use reference with: hundreds of new issues for Euro based nations; 5,250 detailed photos and illustrations for accurate identification; all known collector sets and singles; extensive listings for bi-metallic and tri-metallic coins; and, colorized coins in cloisonne, vinyl and acrylic covered paper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80389 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Colin R. Bruce II is one of the original creators of the legendary Standard Catalog series, and has worked with Krause for nearly 35 years. Thomas Michael has spent nearly 20 years performing in-depth price analysis for Krause Publications numismatic book line. All three are experienced and accomplished numismatists, researchers and avid collectors.

Customer Reviews

It is a pre- Euro catalog
This animal is good for pointing out many coins that may be missed in the smaller magazines and at trade shows. However it is a catalog, about the size of a phone book and with so few advertisers that they are negligible.

There are no fancy color pictures just coins and lots of them divided into countries; so many coins that it can make your head spin if you are not searching for a particular theme. The shallow part of the book is the depth of time.

This version came out before the Euro however I am collecting Notgeld and trade dollars.

When I write reviews I look for a stumper or two. Well this book passed. I looked up the "Wailbligen 100". Sure as shoot'n there it was with an explanation and references to Porcelain coins.

2008 Standard Catalog of World Coins
Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 (Standard Catalog of World Coins)This is a generic catalog. The price was competitive and the shipping reasonable.

Here we go again...
So here we go again... The second edition of a largely unnecessary book (if Krause could drop the "patterns, pieforts etc." sections in the 20th century volume, the two volumes would fit perfectly in one) which seems quite dated the very moment it is published - only in case of some countries you get issues up to 2005. The policy of dating the catalogue "for the coming year" makes the gap even more painfully visible.
At the same time the second edition does not fill blank spaces left in the first one. Let me give you just one example - Belarus, a country which issues only commemorative coins in moderate mintages but an impressive number. Let's look up the most popular denomination - copper-nickel 1 rouble. 2001 - 2 out of 4 are missing, 2002 - 4 out of 5, 2003 - listing complete, 2004 - 5 out of 10 missing, 2005 - 1 out of 10, and that is the end. Nothing from 2006 and 2007. You don't believe me? Don't take my word for it, check the website of the National Bank of Belarus. It is in English. The editors apparently did not.
That's the catch - most of the information this catalog is missing is readily available on the Internet. Updating the catalogue would take a week at most and that would include looking up current coin prices on eBay. Because the prices are just as dated as the rest, they don't take into consideration the rise of silver and gold and the fall of the dollar in relation to other currencies.
However, so far no one has done it better and that is the saddest part. So if you don't have the week to browse the Internet, and want information on recently issued coins in a reasonably handy volume, go ahead and buy it. Just remember that the editors did not have the week as well, and you, at some point, will have to do their research anyway.