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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1603009, member: 32000&quot;]Personally, I find the Krause books useful in the intitial identification of a coin beyond that there are some issues regarding how they&#039;re organized (ie: NCLTs, regular issues, unusual coins, tokens, etc.). </p><p><br /></p><p>Price wise they reflect what was popular in 60&#039;s, 70&#039;s and 80&#039;s. What I find offensive is those folks who have lots of money to burn and send prices skyrocketing out of the reach of most collectors. Even some modest coins have gone beyond my budget due to the new collectors from India, China, the Middle East, and the US. Some of these collectors are used to paying too much for coins because they started off collecting NCLTs or popular so-called &quot;rare&quot; or &quot;scarce&quot; coins which are almost always waaayyy over priced. So in turn they bring that, &quot;paying whatever price&quot; out of ignorance with them to the online auctions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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