Product Description

Enter the creative artistry of 21st century coinage. For coin collectors the "Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001 to Date" is a complete gallery of fascinating world money and collector coinage.This one volume provides readers with listings of 21st century coinage from all parts of the world, including 85,000 thoroughly analysed values in up to five grades of condition.All known collector series, singles, bi-metallic and tri-metallic coins, colour applique, unusual shapes and many more newly issued coins of the present century are featured in this authoritative reference.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #237266 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

About the Author
Colin R. Bruce II has been with Krause Publications for more than 30 years, and is one of the creators of Krause Publications' legendary Standard Catalog series. Thomas Michael is Krause Publications' veteran market analyst. He has provided in-depth numismatic price analysis for more than 20 years.

Customer Reviews

More and more helpful but is it really necessary?,
With every passing year the edition of a separate 21st century coin catalog becomes more justified. Any coin collector can easily list a number of countries which do their best to fill the volume with products of their mints and national banks. China and France alone add at least two to four pages yearly, Mexico, Russia, and Poland are not far behind. It does make sense to produce this catalog and yet there are doubts.
The 2009 edition brings another selection of new commemoratives plus a handful of fairly interesting regular coins but somehow I am still unconvinced that there were credible reasons for splitting the 1900+ volume into two - the 20th and the 21st century (apart from making more money on collectors ;) If you could remove "patterns etc." sections - most of which interest less than a hundred people all around the world - the 20th and the 21st century catalogs could still easily be produced as a single volume.
The volume seems to have become too big to handle for its editors. Several times the same coins are listed twice (Bangladesh 2 taka is the first to come to mind but you will find more, I am sure) with minute differences in descriptions as if there were real differences between two coins. It seems nobody had the strength to edit the whole volume carefully...
In short - if you are seriously interested in commemorative world issues, this is your book. You simply must buy it as the only other choice is checking various internet sites. Yet if your interests are more moderate getting a new edition every two or three years should be enough.

first class cd and book
about time coins were loaded onto a cd and accessed by computer, this book and cd are exactly what i have been waiting for to look up coins quickly and easily.. recommend this book to anyone interested in coins.

Reference suitable for serious collectors only
The `Standard Catalog...' series of books are comprehensive in their listing and presentation of world coins/paper money; I can see how these volumes are invaluable to collectors. I am not a collector however and purchased the volumes on paper money simply to admire the artistry put into their creation. I was greatly disappointed (given my purpose) as the paper is of telephone book quality and all coin/note images inside are small, black & white and grany (the only colour printing is on the cover). Even as a reference for collectors, the presentation quality could be much better. For a beautifully illustrated guide to world coinage, I would instead recommend `The World Encyclopedia of Coins and Coin Collecting' by James Mackay.