Standard Catalog of World Coins: 2001-Date

The fourth and last installment in the collection. Unfortunately is the one that has the least value for your money as you will need to buy a new copy every few years. Still it ius a must for any serious coin collector.

With every passing year the edition of a separate 21st century coin catalog becomes more justified. Any coin collector can easily list a number of countries which do their best to fill the volume with products of their mints and national banks. China and France alone add at least two to four pages yearly, Russia and Poland are not far behind. It does make sense to produce this catalog and yet there are doubts. The 2009 edition brings another selection of new commemoratives plus a handful of fairly interesting regular coins but somehow I am still unconvinced that there were credible reasons for splitting the 1900+ volume into two - the 20th and the 21st century (apart from making more money on collectors ;) If you could remove "patterns etc." sections - most of which interest less than a hundred people all around the world - the 20th and the 21st century catalogs could still easily be produced as a single volume. The volume seems to have become too big to handle for its editors. Several times the same coins are listed twice (Bangladesh 2 taka is the first to come to mind) with minute differences in descriptions as if there were differences between two coins. It seems nobody had the strength to edit the whole volume carefully... In short - if you are seriously interested in commemorative world issues, this is your book. You simply must buy it as the only other choice is checking various internet sites. Yet if your interests are more moderate getting a new edition every two or three years should be enough.

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 contains the Euro and it may not be ancient coins or Notgeld but the designs are innovative and affordable. Collect them now while they are at face value. In the years to come they will be of value and sentimental value to your offspring. I know the book is a tad expensive but it is worth adding to the collection or catalogs on earlier eras. Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900 (Standard Catalog of World Coins 19th Century Edition 1801-1900) World Notgeld, 1914-1947: A Guide & Checklist and Other Local Issue Emergency Money

I got two books and shipment was very good. Books arrived in good condition. Thanks. Cem Barlok

This catalog is the best one concerning the hobby of coin collecting. But the description of some coins which belong to countries not using the latin alphabet is not enough images are also needed. This countries are mainly Thailand, Belarus, Ukraine, Bangladash, Nepal and of course Islamic countries. Yours sincerely Vahe Tekartinyan