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: #232490 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.

Here We Go Again...
So here we go again... The second edition of a largely unnecessary book (if Krause could drop the "patterns, pieforts etc." sections in the 20th century volume, the two volumes would fit perfectly in one) which seems quite dated the very moment it is published - only in case of some countries you get issues up to 2005. The policy of dating the catalogue "for the coming year" makes the gap even more painfully visible.
At the same time the second edition does not fill blank spaces left in the first one. Let me give you just one example - Belarus, a country which issues only commemorative coins in moderate mintages but an impressive number. Let's look up the most popular denomination - copper-nickel 1 rouble. 2001 - 2 out of 4 are missing, 2002 - 4 out of 5, 2003 - listing complete, 2004 - 5 out of 10 missing, 2005 - 1 out of 10, and that is the end. Nothing from 2006 and 2007. You don't believe me? Don't take my word for it, check the website of the National Bank of Belarus. It is in English. The editors apparently did not.
That's the catch - most of the information this catalog is missing is readily available on the Internet. Updating the catalogue would take a week at most and that would include looking up current coin prices on eBay. Because the prices are just as dated as the rest, they don't take into consideration the rise of silver and gold and the fall of the dollar in relation to other currencies.
However, so far no one has done it better and that is the saddest part. So if you don't have the week to browse the Internet, and want information on recently issued coins in a reasonably handy volume, go ahead and buy it. Just remember that the editors did not have the week as well, and you, at some point, will have to do their research anyway.

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.