Is there a good reference book specifically on German coinage & currency, something like the US Red Book, Charlton or Spink's?
In German there are quite a few of course. Don't know what is available in English though. What period(s) of time are you interested in? Christian
"European Crowns & Talers since 1800" by John Davenport has a lot ofgerman bigger coins. Also I believe wizard has a couple of books on coins from northern europe in their world coin section.
Well, "the" catalog for such coins would be the Jaeger. Covers German coins from various countries issued between 1871 and today: http://www.gietl-verlag.de/die-deut...1/buchdetail/172/1/themen/neuerscheinung.html A little less expensive, but also less detailed when it comes to coins that the Jaeger lists, is the Schön. Has Germany (as above) plus Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland from the mid/late 19c until today: http://www.gietl-verlag.de/kleiner-...g/buchdetail/181/1/themen/neuerscheinung.html Since I do not collect paper money, I cannot say much about that, but as far as I know, the Rosenberg is a pretty common reference catalog for German notes: http://www.gietl-verlag.de/die-deut...1/buchdetail/173/5/themen/neuerscheinung.html At the bottom of each of these pages you have a "zur Leseprobe" button. Click that link to view a few sample pages of the catalog you are interested in. But again, all these are in German. Christian
From a different topic ... Na dann - hier sind ein paar Beispiel-Seiten. Here are a few sample pages of those catalogs: http://www.gietl-verlag.de/blaetterkatalog/Buecher/Schoen-KDM-2012/blaetterkatalog/index.php Schön, Kleiner deutscher Münzkatalog (covers DE 1871-today, AT 1892-, CH 1850-, LI 1862-) http://www.gietl-verlag.de/blaetterkatalog/Buecher/Jaeger-22Aufl/blaetterkatalog/index.php Jaeger, Die deutschen Münzen seit 1871 A little more detailed than the Schön, but covers the "German countries" (today's Germany plus Deutsches Reich, DDR, Danzig, Saarland, etc.) only. http://www.gietl-verlag.de/blaetterkatalog/Buecher/Schoen-WMK40/blaetterkatalog/index.php Schön, Weltmünzkatalog (20-21c) Covers coins from 1900-2010; this 40th edition comes in two weeks. In my opinion, the Krause (SCWC) is better at allowing you to find a coin, as the primary sorting criterion is the denomination. The Schön is better at showing you the other coins in a set for example, as it follows a more chronological structure. The Krause is better at providing mintages for different years; the Schön is better at describing what is depicted ... Christian
Yes, the latter is pretty normal for world coin catalogs such as the Krause or the Schön. Actually I just posted the reply here because it would have been OT in the original topic. And as I mentioned, the Schön catalogs are basically made for German speaking collectors; for others they would be interesting only when they can be had cheap, e.g. an older edition. Christian
Here is a close-out of the 2007 edition of this. Look at the other close-outs for some real bargains. If you look in the foreign book section or Brooklyn's site, you will see just what a discount that this is: http://www.brooklyngallery.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=0277-WCB130
