German coin values

Hello,

Does anyone have a good recommendation on a book for German coin values/erros etc? I'm going to pickup a world coin book today, but I have a feeling it wont have information on the errors and such.

Thanks
greg

 

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I just got back into collecting and so far the only 2 books i have are the 2011 Redbook and Krause disks from 1600 to present. The Krause lists a few varieties but I'm sure they don't list all of them. As far as any German specific ones others will have to answer.

 

yea, i would like to know this also. i have german ww2 coins, that i would like to know the value.

 

Yoo hoo - Chrisild, your expertise is needed.

So far as I am aware, updated editions of Gunter Schon's German language world coin catalog havenot been published in the last several years, but Chris is sure to know; and if it's available I'll bet he can guide you to a source.

 

I use the Blackbook. It has a small section for WWII Third Reich German.

Others here probably will cite Krause.

 

This is one I found on amazon:

Standard Catalog of German Coins: 1601 To Present

http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Catalog-German-Coins-Present/dp/0873416449#noop

I think I'll give it a try.
By Colin R. Bruce II and Thomas MichaelBy Colin R. Bruce II and Thomas Michael

 

Not when it comes to English language books about German coinage. The books I know or use won't really be useful in this particular case, but just for the record:

As for the Schön catalogs, they are now written or compiled by Gerhard Schön, and a new edition of his 20-21c world catalog comes out every year. The current edition (38th ed. 2010) was issued in January.

Gerhard Schön also does a catalog of Austrian/German/Swiss coins (mid-19c until today), a euro coin catalog, and probably some others. For German coins (today's Federal Republic, but also Deutsches Reich, DDR and "related" territories) there is the Jaeger catalog from the same publishing house.

If you want to look prices/values up, you can use the CoinFinder which is based on that Jaeger catalog. "Prägejahr" is the year of issue; "Wertzahl" is the face value (just the digits); "Währungsbezeichnung" (pop-up menu) is the currency unit, e.g. Pfennig.

However, those catalogs do not really cover errors. There are two books/catalogs about error coins, written by Peter Neugebauer, that I know of - one for DM coins, one for euro coins. Maybe there are others, but I am not interested in errors ...

Christian