Here are some press releases from NGC about their purchase of the digital assets of the Krause Catalogs. These are what many of us remember as the Standard Catalog of World Coins (KM) and Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (Pick). Press Releases: https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/15389/ngc-pmg-acquire-km-pick-catalogs/ https://www.greysheet.com/news/stor...atics-september-2026-greysheet-editors-letter Numismaster.com (where the KM Catalog migrated digitally after Active Interest Media purchased it) is now defunct. From the link directly above: Just as some background: NGC and its parent organization, the Certified Collectibles Group (CCG), has a partnership and licensing agreement with Whitman Brands, designating Whitman as the official supply store for NGC and Paper Money Guaranty (PMG) branded products. Whitman Brands itself is thinking of creating World Coin and World Paper Catalogs, but they are not thinking of creating another Krause Catalog, at least in the form of its previous iterations (the telephone book-sized book catalogs or the Numismaster website). Whitman has stated, "Our catalog will not necessarily be based on Krause. To my mind that’s an antiquated cataloging system, and we don’t necessarily have access to it anyway – so [it's] probably best for us to create what we need here. eBay is going to start using our catalog so the work we do will benefit the market in a huge way. Also, once we get [the] catalog going, the pricing will be a huge step 2." ------------------------------------ In short, I'm not really sure what CCG/NGC/PMG/Greysheet/Whitman Brands are thinking of actually DOING with the Krause Catalogs (KM and Pick) and it's "digital assests." What is clear is that Krause's World Coin specifications are available at NGC (as they have been for a while), but a price section of the Catalog will have to wait until Whitman takes that on later... Stay tuned.
God Bless 'em and good luck. Dead dog as far as I'm concerned, but no-one listens to me. And God love 'em for that......
This could be the referee who also plays the match! In the philatelic world, the Stanley Gibbons catalogue had long been treated as gospel. However, unlike independent pricing guides that aggregate secondary market auction results, Gibbons openly defined its catalog value as its own retail selling price—what Stanley Gibbons would charge a retail customer in their London shop for a stamp in fine condition. I always thought this suspicious. By increasing the value of stamps each year they improved the value of their own stock and created an artificial bubble that eventually burst. The stamps always went up and never down. They then had a buy back scheme selling "investment grade" stamps and created a rarity index to support it. Something like a Top 100 in grade and rarity. A little like a certain "green bean" deal. Pushing the attraction, pushes the price. This went bust when redemptions on buy back became faster than income. From memory they only held stock valued at around 20% of stated redemption value. I have never collected stamps as the thought of spilling coffee on a fragment of paper worth thousands would trouble me and there are literally millions of them produced as commemoratives making the USA and UK Royal Mint look like amateurs in the game of fleecing collectors. Ultimately its all about the money with commercial enterprises and they are there to make money for their shareholders and you can't criticise that but need to be aware of any conflict of interest if any of your purchases are for investment, fortunately mine aren't.
