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2002 Standard Catalog of World Coins: Complete Listings by Date and Mint Since 1901

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In general I enjoyed the book. I think it is very good for every numismatist. Comparing with 28th edition this one is really supplemented and revised. But there are some inexactitudes I want to draw your attention: 1) it is written in the description that the book contains 2240 pages, but the one I've received contains only 2048; 2) it is told in Editorial Review that "...every known coin issued during the Twentieth Century". I have at least two coins which are not mentioned in the book : a) Andorra - 1 centim 1999 (F.A.O. Issue, Aluminium), b) Niue - 5 dollars 1997 (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Silver).

Best Regards. Vladimir.

It may not have all the coins in the world, but darn near all of them. I've looked up about 300 of them and they were all there. It gives a little history of each country. It has a front section with some tables and charts to help you figure out what language is on your mystery coin. It's about the size of a big phone book and the pages are thin, just like a phone book. They have to be, otherwize the book would be huge. I don't know if the values for the various coins are exactly right, but who cares?

In fact there is no other book of its kind, for world coin catalogue. Surely I did not expect to find accurate values for all coins, but at least there is an indication. i.e Greek coins' values are very different in the Greek market. In general, it is an excellent book for beginners. For experts no book in the world, ever, will be good enough and this book will be used just for indication. Surely there are many mistakes in this book (even in name of countries) but still this book is one of a kind.

I used this for cataloguing coins collected by relatives over the years. Using this book I was able to find and date coins in Hebrew and in Asian languages that were previously incomprehensible to me. The print is fine and the paper is newsprint, but there are many thousands of illustrations that helped me track exactly what I needed. Perfect for a casual collector with unusual 20th century coins and probably for many advanced collectors as well.

Very good book! I was able to identify all of my previous "unknown" coins in a few hours! There is a chart with international numeral systems which came in handy for identifying my Middle Eastern and Asian coins. Also useful were the Monogram,Instant Identifier, and Illustrated Guide to Eastern Mint Names. The thousands of pictures also included are useful for quick identification of most coins. One last nice thing are the sections of info about each country before the coin listings start. Anyone with an interest in numismatics should own this book!

If you have world coins, this book is for you. There are coins from pretty much every country. Even countries I had never heard of. The book tells you the composition of each coin and the mintage. It also gives you a prices. For the most part the price seems to be a little high, but you get the general idea of the price.

I used the book to find out how much some Australian coins were worth. The only bad thing about the book is it can be a pain finding the coins within the country. It could be organized a little better. However, buy this book if you have world coins and you want to find out how much they are worth. Just have lots of storage because the book is huge!!!