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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 1590465, member: 8959&quot;]If you are really serious about &#039;world&#039; coins (i.e the 95 % of the world which lies outside of the U.S), then you really need to get a countries specialized catalogues:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Spink - Coins of England and the United Kingdom. </p><p>- Gadoury and Le Franc for French coins.</p><p>- Catalogues by Jäger, Schön, and AKS for coins of Germany.</p><p>- Auction prices realized, as mentioned before.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sure that similar catalogues exist for Spanish, Italian, Japanese, etc coins.</p><p>In my opinion, Krause is innacurate almost to the point of being useless with regard to valuations, and leaves some to be desired with regards to mintages, and other details, </p><p>(at least for the coins that interest me). </p><p><br /></p><p>With regards to grading, GD explained it well. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have found that it is good to buy according to Krause prices, but to sell according to the prices listed in the countries catalogues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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