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Message:: [QUOTE="Insomniac, post: 768717, member: 21995"]In the course of about a week, I have gone from having almost no world coins to having them close to outnumbering my American coins (what I consider to be my primary collection. It started with my birthday, for which some friends of mine gave me a great number of coins from all the places they have visited, and continued to yesterday, when I received the prize I won in Coinman's contest, which only served to expand the collection, which now consists of maybe 150 coins from 20-25 countries. They are all some very cool coins, but I don't know much about any of them, aside from a cursory identification of what countries they come from, and I'd like to know more. Unfortunately, I don't have much of an idea of where to start, thanks mostly to the fact that my local coin shops have little to no interest in world coins. I understand that the Krause Standard Catalog is the world coin bible, but are there any recommended tomes for coins of specific countries? I am particularly interested in German coins from the German empire to date and Polish coins of any era. A search of Amazon reveals more books on German coins than I can shake a stick at, and searching Polish coins often gets me more cleaning products than information on the country's coins. My apologies if this is an oft repeated question, but I sincerely appreciate any information you could offer.[/QUOTE]