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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 789262, member: 4703&quot;]Currency is identified in the paper money Standard Catalogs by a combining the country name and a &quot;Pick Number&quot;.&nbsp; In your example the Pick No. of your Hawaii overprinted note is &quot;USA #36&quot;, and other notes may be &quot;Great Britain #36&quot;, &quot;Canada #36&quot;, &quot;Bulgaria #36&quot;, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the coin catalogs it becomes a little more complicated.&nbsp; While &quot;KM#s&quot; are regularly assigned - again in separate series for each country - both Y#s (Yeoman) and C#s (Craig) are used for many coins where either of those respected sources have already assigned numbers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have well over a dozen comprehensive multi-nation coin/currency catalogs, in several languages, and I have never come across one which uses the type of system you are apparently looking for, where each item would have an unshared numeric designation.&nbsp; I suspect that to be because using a single series of numbers would require six- (or perhaps even seven-) digit numbers, and there would be huge gaps in the numbers designating the coins or currency of any particular country.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should mention that where there have been significant changes of government, as for example the conversion of a colony into an independent nation, Krause is quite inconsistent.&nbsp; In some instances issues of the new entity are numbered in sequence with the original entity, in others a new number series is initiated.&nbsp; There are also inconsistencies in the numbering of coins/currencies of multi-state/province nations, and their national governments - think Germany, Italy, and China as prime examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line - simplicity is not a hallmark of numismatic cataloging and research.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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