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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1197, member: 57463&quot;]<b>I am prejudiced.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin World is a much fatter publication than Numismatic News, about 100 pages per issue.&nbsp; Also, Coin World has departments, such as Banknotes and World Coins for which Krause has separate monthlies.&nbsp; Coin World is the better bargain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic News and Krause in general stay &quot;close&quot; to the collecting community by running lots of pictures of people.&nbsp; This means that they do scoop Coin World perhaps more often than CW cares to admit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin World sees itself as being more professional, a group of journalists reporting about numismatics.&nbsp; Some people do not like that.&nbsp; &quot;You people think you are the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or something,&quot; they gripe.&nbsp; But the upside for me, when I was a CW staffer, is that there was never any conflict of interests as a writer.&nbsp; It would have been as wrong for us to use the company name badge to get a bargain on a coin and then to tout the dealer as such would be for your local newspaper reporter to get a good deal on a car and then write a feature story about the dealer.&nbsp; On the other hand, Krause&#039;s periodicals get much of their position from just such conflicts of interest.&nbsp; It works out because they are paying for leads and scoops that Coin World has to chase for.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, as it happens, since numismatics is the beat we cover, everyone has &quot;something&quot; new all the time.&nbsp; However, selling the material, actually participating in the numismatic (or philatelic for Scotts and Linns) markets gets you fired.&nbsp; They do not allow that at Coin World.&nbsp; Of the staff people I actually got to know, NONE was active in numismatics as a collector.&nbsp; Everyone actively collected something else, books, lunchboxes, whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was my opinion that the folks at Krause were probably better numismatists and certainly better collectors.&nbsp; The problem I had with that admission was that it never showed in Numismatic News or the other periodicals.&nbsp; As the international editor of CW, I looked forward to my copy of Krause World Coins every month, but I was often disappointed.&nbsp; They did get good, solid, basic articles about &quot;My Favorite Coins&quot; from collectors.&nbsp; But the Krause staff never seemed to make good use of the company library.&nbsp; On the other hand, at CW, we each cranked out 1, 2, or 3 features a week on US Numismatics and Other Topics as Assigned, in addition to our usual beats (Paper, The US Mint, World, Errors).&nbsp; The numismatic research in Coin World was always much better because in addition to those baseline articles, we dug for the gems that experts appreciate.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, on the one hand, with NN you get 65 pages of news about people and introductory articles whereas with Coin World you get 100 pages about all areas of numismatics at all levels of knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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