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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2625473, member: 112"]Well John it sounds like for your purposes the catalog type would serve your needs. But I think you would be best served by the Standard Catalog than by the book you are/have been using. Here are links to the 2 books, take a look - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Catalog-World-Coins-1901-2000/dp/1440246548/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839920&sr=8-3&keywords=standard+catalog+of+world+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Catalog-World-Coins-1901-2000/dp/1440246548/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839920&sr=8-3&keywords=standard+catalog+of+world+coins" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Catalog-World-Coins-1901-2000/dp/1440246548/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839920&sr=8-3&keywords=standard+catalog+of+world+coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-World-Coins-1901-Present-Circulating/dp/144024460X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839975&sr=8-1&keywords=collecting+world+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-World-Coins-1901-Present-Circulating/dp/144024460X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839975&sr=8-1&keywords=collecting+world+coins" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-World-Coins-1901-Present-Circulating/dp/144024460X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839975&sr=8-1&keywords=collecting+world+coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Standard is 2,352 pages; the Collecting is 1,152 pages. That alone should tell you a lot, namely that there are a lot of coins that are not listed in the Collecting book. That's the disadvantage for that book. The advantage it has is that it a lot cheaper because its date range is 1900-date; and the Standard is 1900-2000. So to cover the same date range you want you'd need to buy 2 editions of the Standard - 1900-2000 and 2001-date. The advantage of the Standard is that it covers a whole lot more coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding this, well that's exactly the kind of thing you need to just ignore in all these books. All of the Karuse books are notorious for having worthless, sometimes even harmful, information when it comes to values. And I know that this may sound like an exaggeration, but I assure you it isn't, it's not unheard of for those values you used - $100 and $1 - to be reversed when it comes to what values actually are in reality. And yes <u>I am saying</u> they can be off that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now this probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but given your stated purpose, the Standard Catalogs would best serve your needs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2625473, member: 112"]Well John it sounds like for your purposes the catalog type would serve your needs. But I think you would be best served by the Standard Catalog than by the book you are/have been using. Here are links to the 2 books, take a look - [url]https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Catalog-World-Coins-1901-2000/dp/1440246548/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839920&sr=8-3&keywords=standard+catalog+of+world+coins[/url] [url]https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-World-Coins-1901-Present-Circulating/dp/144024460X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484839975&sr=8-1&keywords=collecting+world+coins[/url] The Standard is 2,352 pages; the Collecting is 1,152 pages. That alone should tell you a lot, namely that there are a lot of coins that are not listed in the Collecting book. That's the disadvantage for that book. The advantage it has is that it a lot cheaper because its date range is 1900-date; and the Standard is 1900-2000. So to cover the same date range you want you'd need to buy 2 editions of the Standard - 1900-2000 and 2001-date. The advantage of the Standard is that it covers a whole lot more coins. Regarding this, well that's exactly the kind of thing you need to just ignore in all these books. All of the Karuse books are notorious for having worthless, sometimes even harmful, information when it comes to values. And I know that this may sound like an exaggeration, but I assure you it isn't, it's not unheard of for those values you used - $100 and $1 - to be reversed when it comes to what values actually are in reality. And yes [U]I am saying[/U] they can be off that much. Now this probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but given your stated purpose, the Standard Catalogs would best serve your needs.[/QUOTE]
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