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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1590694, member: 24091&quot;]Sometimes.&nbsp; I have seen Italian coin guides from the early 1960s where the relative values are WAY off.&nbsp; In particular, rare coins valued at very low multiples of common coins, so that an early 20th century 5 Lire is only supposed to be worth ten times the same issue as a 2 Lire.&nbsp; And who knows, maybe those were accurate numbers relative to one another back then.&nbsp; At the time I was more fascinated with transistor radios and matchbox cars than coins so I have no personal experience on that.&nbsp; I realize auction recods exist from back then, but since the prices realized have no bearing on what a coin is worth today, tracking down the information isn&#039;t worth the effort in my opinion.&nbsp; All that said, the hobby owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Krause.&nbsp; &nbsp; Had the original Standard Catalog of World Coins never been published,&nbsp; the hobby as we know it would be a shell of what it has come to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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