Honestly, from my uninformed viewpoint, the USA is the most coin collecting obsessed country in the world. It's hard to even find values for non-error foreign coins.
Want an eye-opener? Check values in Spink's Coins of England and the United Kingdom or in Gadoury's Monnaies Françaises. You have to make the mental transitions to Sterling or Euros, but the values are in there and seem VERY high to American observers.
Of course the wrap-around to the OP's question is not whether there is or is not a world equivalent of the Cherrypicker's Guide for world coins, but why does Cherrypicker's Guide exist at all. It's a mystery I haven't been able to solve. The best I can come up with is that it feeds into one of the least attractive aspects of American life - the desire to obtain something for nothing.
Generally the deeper red they are, the sweeter. If they're not red enough, they tend to be a little sour. Except for the "white" cherries, they're sweet from the gecko (get go) but apparently have a short season.
Some of the more widely collected countries may have something like the CPG for that specific country, in that country. But collectors in most countries do not get into the collecting of "minor" varieties like we do. Overdates yes, mules yes, but most other things no. Also look at the size of the CPG just for the US coins. Now imagine the size of a book that did the same thing for the 200+ countries around the world
Some bigger dealers outside the US have online photo identification guides to all of the different varieties. They tend to call them varieties and the concept of cherry picking is not called that in their country. I've seen what we call a cherry picker referred to as a scout, a sleuth,a picker or a hawk. Thus a book scout or sleuth; an antiques picker or a coin or estate hawk.
