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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 248848, member: 6986&quot;]Daggarjon:</p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part, the numbering for each country in Pick starts with 1 in Volume 2.&nbsp; Volume 3 is a continuation from Volume 2.&nbsp; There is some overlap of listings between these two volumes where a series was used before and after 1960.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are some exceptions such as China.&nbsp; China starts with the Imperial issues and they are numbered beginning with the letter A.&nbsp; This is because the early editions of the catalog did not have the listings for the Imperial notes.&nbsp; Because the catalog tries (but does not always succeed) in listing notes in chronological order, the Imperial notes had to have some other distinguishing identifier because the numbering from 1 forward was already used.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The conventional shorthand for notes in Volume 1 and 2 is the coutry name followed by P-### (e.g., China P-101).</p><p><br /></p><p>The listings in Volukme 1 are independent of the listings in Volume 2 and 3.&nbsp; The shorthand for listings in Volume 1 is the country followed by PS-### (China PS-101).&nbsp; The S stands for Specialized as in the Specialized volume of the catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>KM#s are used by people who have seen the light and come over to world paper money from world coins.&nbsp; World coins are catalogued in the Krause-Mishler book, the Standard Catalog of World Coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The shorthand for coins in this catalog is KM.&nbsp; These people are merely confused when they list paper money using KM rather than P or PS.&nbsp; They usually mean the Pick Catalogs when they use KM for world paper money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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