Red Book version for World Coins?

Is there a Red Book version for classic and modern (non-US and non-antique) world coins? Trying to get more into world silver coins so if there's a dominant authority on world coins, that would be a very helpful guide book. I'm sure that would be a very thick book, too...

Thanks in advance!

 

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Krause series of catalogs are about the best you will find but the descriptions and prices are pretty vague.

 

Thanks, I'll look into that more. From what I saw, it looks like it's by period - makes sense, otherwise, i'm sure the book will be ridiculously big. Hopefully US coins aren't listed in there.

 

The Krause catalogs are pretty hefty, even being broken down by era.

 

I have each century from 1600 to 2006 and others for tokens and banknotes.
Once bought you don`t have to update the older ones.
And yes they are hefty, you need strong shelving racks .

 

I have two catalogs. They are expensive if you go to buy current ones. I went to a show and saw that one guy had new ones for him plus some older ones. I bought two older ones for 10.00 for both. That's a good deal, because you can't say the prices are solid anyways, but it is still enough to identify coins and get mintages and see which ones seem to be more collectable than others.

 

The Krause catalog considers the US to be part of the world so yes, they are listed there. But as you can imagine, other countries (especially the prolific issuers of collector coins) take up most space when it comes to modern issues ...

Christian

 

Yeah, I just didn't want it to be too dense of a book. I suspected it would be in there but preferred it to not be there since I have the Red Book and other price guides.

 

you can buy the CD computer disc versions on Ebay.

 

I have a copy of R S Yeoman, A Catalog of Modern World Coins, 1850-1964, 7th edition that was published in 1967. It is pretty comprehensive and is priced reasonably. You should be able to pick up a used copy for under $25.

 

I found that the best way to store the Krause Standard Cat's. is to put them in those plastic nearly triangular boxes for unbound magazines.

 

If you want one Books A Million has it on sale for $19.95. I just picked up one for a friend. But all stores may not be doing same thing.

 

Check Barnes and noble. If you want smaller, they have a few paperback books that can almost fit in your pocket. However, these guided tend to group years together and don't offer mintages. I don't see how they are useful at all. Maybe if you were trying to figure out a type set or something.

 

Get the Krause CD's .. they weigh nothing and take up no storage space.

 

In the 20th Krause I bought online Spain was missing LOL that's funny because I am right now in the Canary Islands enjoying the sun

 

Believe it or not US coins are listed and they all have KM numbers... the US is just another country ;-)

 

What edition was it that is missing Spain? the 42nd edition of the 20th Century volume has it. Thanks, Fred

 

"Believe it or not" for 98% of the world the US is just another country! I used to get a lot of complaints for not running US coins in World Coin News New Issues Roundup.

 

... and hope you never loose power or have a computer crash on you. Candles and catalogs for ever!!