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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frech001, post: 2263167, member: 20616&quot;]The previous advice above was helpful for me as well.&nbsp; I acquired a similar world coin collection from a friend who inherited them and didn&#039;t know what to do with them.&nbsp; I purchased the Krause catalogs on CDs and installed them on my laptop. I found the ability to search digitally was very useful. I could search on the various images such as lion, fish, wheat, etc when I couldn&#039;t read any of the text. I also found that the free website <a href="http://dateconverter.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dateconverter.net/" rel="nofollow">http://dateconverter.net/</a> was helpful in figuring out the date of the coin so I knew which Krause edition to search in. Another resource is a free pdf document to search on distinct coin symbols available for download at: <a href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/instant-identifier-a-guide-to-20th-century-coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/instant-identifier-a-guide-to-20th-century-coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaticnews.net/instant-identifier-a-guide-to-20th-century-coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes, I just looked at pictures in Krause as for the Chinese coins, picking out a particular aspect of the coin to find the coin I had. The differences between provinces and mint marks are helpful. Your father may already have (had) references, perhaps digital on his computer, so check that. He may have even created a digitized catalog list of them as I did using Excel with headings such as “Country/Date/Metal/Silver-Gold oz./Face Value/Standard Catalog Listing/Est. Grade/Book Value. Once created you can sort the list by country, year etc. and create separate sheets for each country. Ebay is also a helpful reference tool if you know the country and date of a coin you can search the listings for your coin. Often sellers will provide Krause numbers and if they suggested a grade you can compare yours, of course certified grades or most reliable. If you obtain the Krause catalogs, take time to read the brief information about the country. It is a wonderful quick glimpse of world geography and history and provides a perspective of the times and people who held the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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