Are there recognized as accurate alternatives to Krause ?

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I've seen several poster in the site forums say that there are mistakes in KM.
Apart from some, mostly for European and North American coins, alternative catalogues,  is there a widely recognized as accurate alternative to KM for World Coins in general ?
K&M is the best because it's the most comprehensive. The most serious completion comes from R. A. Yeoman which is considered more reliable for non latin currencies.

Both suffer the same issue, by attempting to be comprehensive they lose the in depth information of the more specialised books.

"The English Silver Coinage from 1649" by Seaby has been my personal bible since the 1960's . Any of the Seaby catalogs are worth picking up, not just for their reference use but because of the beautiful illustrations.
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There is also the Weltmünzkatalog for world coins also seperated into different centuries from Schön its very simmilar to the KM  http://www.gietl-verlag.de/weltmuenzkatalog-21-jahrhundert-2001-2014/buchdetail/578/0/0/1.html but not saying its any better
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Hello,

But by far the best, if you want to specialize even slightly, in an area, is to get local/special catalogues.
It will help to correct errors, and fill the enoying "varieties exist" of KM.

It is really worth it for your country, or a particularly time era.

You can ask here for titles of books, and many are available second hand !

Cheers,

André
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Quote: apukingThere is also the Weltmünzkatalog for world coins also seperated into different centuries from Schön its very simmilar to the KM  http://www.gietl-verlag.de/weltmuenzkatalog-21-jahrhundert-2001-2014/buchdetail/578/0/0/1.html but not saying its any better
At least Schon is more accurate than KM.

but it is more difficult, because  coins are cataloged by  eras or themes they were issued, so you must already  be numismatist to find coin there (if  there is no picture) .

In case of KM, where searching based on denomination from  1c  to 1000 $, make it more easy.

and, of course English makes it more popular around World.
Holmasto catalog for finnish coins and banknotes is what we use in finland and it's even more accurate than ngc and pmg, has real size colored pictures of all coins and banknotes and it has even the variants that aren't listed in ngc, pmg or numista and it has photos for those too
Quote: kolikko99Holmasto catalog for finnish coins and banknotes is what we use in finland and it's even more accurate than ngc and pmg, has real size colored pictures of all coins and banknotes and it has even the variants that aren't listed in ngc, pmg or numista and it has photos for those too
about variants... - oooh.. its another talk....

You must look thorough Gomes or Lecompte, or Bitkin ...  and YOu will never   start to collect  Portuguese  coins, or France and  Possesions  , or Russia  and USSR  :)  :)  :)

Any local catalog,  of course consists of plenty of varies, which are not exist in common catalogues.
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Quote: kolikko99Holmasto catalog for finnish coins and banknotes is what we use in finland and it's even more accurate than ngc and pmg, has real size colored pictures of all coins and banknotes and it has even the variants that aren't listed in ngc, pmg or numista and it has photos for those too
about variants... - oooh.. its another talk....

You must look thorough Gomes or Lecompte, or Bitkin ...  and YOu will never   start to collect  Portuguese  coins, or France and  Possesions  , or Russia  and USSR  :)  :)  :)

Any local catalog,  of course consists of plenty of varies, which are not exist in common catalogues.
oh I know what you mean, I collect portuguese hammered coins and they have ridicilous amount of varieties but this is the worst...

http://www.pmgnotes.com/priceguide/world-note-price-guide.aspx

I gave up the moment I saw how many varieties the denmark 10 kroner H.C Andersen note has

come on danish peple, they all look the same! :~
Hi my Finnish friend,

that's the reason why I don't collect notes.

Ol' Dane Ole
Globetrotter
Coin varieties in French:
https://monnaiesetvarietes.numista.com
Thanks for that PMG link Kolikko. I don't really collect banknotes but I've got quite a few I'd like to know more about. That website will prove most useful.
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Quote: bmnobbsI've seen several poster in the site forums say that there are mistakes in KM.
Apart from some, mostly for European and North American coins, alternative catalogues,  is there a widely recognized as accurate alternative to KM for World Coins in general ?
The main problem of Krause is that they never try to confirm the existence of all the years of issue; so their catalogs contain lots of years that never existed. Also, some really rare years of issue may have ridiculously low prices there. National catalogs sometimes solve this problem, but not always. And most countries don't even have national catalogs.

I'm trying to confirm all the years of issue at my site; but I do it only for 50 countries of the world.

The real alternative can be created here, in this community. But to do that, there must be a possibility to upload a separate image for each year of issue, and to show different specifications for each year, because the division of coins into types is sometimes wrong. The members should have a right to make all the corrections without an approval of a moderator. Nothing of this is now possible. The owner of this site doesn't even want to show the quantity of members who own each year of issue. Too much moderation = lost opportunities.
Even the specialist catalogues have mistakes, omissions and other annoying errors.

And, even the specialist collectors have mistakes on their online lists.

Krause, in my opinion, is a monumental effort at delivering the impossible.

It is up to collectors, like those on this forum, to point out any errors and report them to Krause who will, hopefully, get around to amending the next edition of the catalogue in question.

Coin collecting and numismatic knowledge is a journey - not a destination.

Some new discovery is always just ahead of us, so 100% accuracy may be desirable but I do not think it is achievable in the printed form.   8)
No coin catalog can ever be perfect, but SCWC is getting better by each edition. That's the reason, why SCWC comes out in new versions nearly every year even for the centuries finished a long time ago. We collectors ALWAYS find "new" variants, years, alloys, mints of the already "documented" coins, but to enrich the catalogs, we have to make our findings known to each other, so the people with access to the catalog editors can report YOUR findings for the benefit of ALL of us.
Ole
Globetrotter
Coin varieties in French:
https://monnaiesetvarietes.numista.com

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