2018 Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1961-Present

Featuring the insight and experience of a worldwide network of numismatic experts, the 24th edition of the 2018 Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1961-Present, provides the most comprehensive and complete reference to world bank notes issued since 1961.

This industry-leading catalog details:

• Over 25,000 listings
• Over 15,500 illustrations for easy identification of notes and signature varieties
• Bank note values in two popularly available conditions
• Country signature charts for specific and accurate variety identification
• Hundreds of new bank note issues
• Updates of Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Faeroe Islands and India varieties

With contributions from an international team of collectors, dealers, researchers and national bank officials working to ensure accuracy, the 2018 Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1961-Present, is the most informed and global resource on the market for the proper identification, description and valuation of modern world bank notes.

The 2018 Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1961-Present, 24th Ed is the coin catalog you've come to depend on and the one you can trust for the best in world numismatics. Add this new edition to your library today!

About the Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money

Paper money collecting is probably as old as paper money itself. However, this segment of the numismatic hobby did not begin to reach a popularity approaching that of coin collecting until the latter half of the 1970s. While coins and paper money are alike in that both served as legal obligations to facilitate commerce, long-time paper money enthusiasts know the similarity ends there.

The development of widespread collector interest in paper money of most nations was inhibited by a near total absence of adequate documentation. No more than four decades ago collectors referred to only a few catalogs authored by Albert Pick were assembled as stepping-stones to the ultimate objective, which became reality with publication of the first Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper in 1975. That work provided collectors with fairly complete listings and up-to-date valuations of all recorded government note issues of the 20th century, incorporating Pick's previously unpublished manuscripts on Africa, Asia and Oceania, plus many earlier issues.

The completely revised and updated 24th edition of Volume III, Modern Issues, along with the companion 16th edition Volume II, General Issues, presents a substantial extension of the cataloging effort initiated in 1975 and revised in succeeding editions. As the most comprehensive world paper money references ever assembled, they fully document the many and varied legal tender paper currencies issued and circulated by over 380 past and current government issuing authorities of the world from the 1368 to present

Falling within the scope of the Specialized Issues volume are all state, local, municipal and company releases which circulated under auspices of recognized governments and their banking agents. These are notes which enjoyed legitimate circulation in their respective countries, sometimes for a broad region or area, sometimes for the entire nation. In compiling this catalog we have excluded those issues which had a seriously limited range of circulation, such as the vast number of private Notgeld issued by many German and Austrian states and cities particularly in the period during and between the World Wars, as well as similar Chinese local issues and those very limited circulation issues of other nations and time periods.

About the author

Tracy L. Schmidt worked for several years in the numismatic auction business before joining the Numismatics team at Krause Publications. She has an extensive editorial background in the field and serves as the lead editor for a number of reference catalogs.