Content of Michel Catalog Münzen Deutschland 2018:

The German coins as of 1871; i.e. German states, German Reich, emergency currency, German colonies, occupied territories (World War II), Gdansk, German Democratic Republic, Saarland, Federal Republic of Germany. Plus the current EURO coins and the 2- commemorative Euro coins issued by all member states; i.e. Andorra, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Vatican, Cyprus.

Details:

• Detailed cataloguing of the German coins since 1871 as well as the Euro coins of the other Euro countries that are valid in Germany
• Novelties up to the end of 2018 and the 2019 programme of issues
• Comprehensive catalog introduction with a numismatic lexicon and index of the current coins
• The complete contents have been updated and revised
• Numerous supplements concerning the current Euro coins
• Many price increases for coins in better-than-average condition
• Approx. 2'100 high-resolution colour pictures depicting front and back as well as descriptions of the edges and over 20 000 price quotations
• Many new embossed illustrations for euro coins
• Notes on counterfeiting and errors on coins
• Handy & high-quality catalog format
• New high resolution color images
• More concise catalog design and modern layout thanks to an innovative manufacturing process

2018 will again present many German coin novelties. After a commemorative coin for the value of € 50 was issued last year for the first time, the start of a whole series will follow. Between 2018 and 2022 a total of five commemorative coins featuring “musical instruments“ are to be issued.

Due to the high quality of German musical instruments, they are in demand throughout the world and therefore, according to the German Department of the Treasury, “ambassadors of the German music culture in country and abroad“.

The series starts off with the contrabass based on a design by Erich Ott from Munich.

Image BRD 261 R & V

Target Group:

Coin collectors of Germany and Euro-Zone, experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Additional Information:

Edition: 22^nd Edition, in colour .
Pages: 526
Size: 152 mm x 203 mm, paperback
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Publication Date: March 1st, 2018
Language: German
ISBN: 9-783-95402-230-4

Press Release

This year, the MICHEL Coins Germany catalogue will be published for the 22^nd time. By coming out as a new edition every year, it always provides collectors with the latest information about the collection area “German coins as of 1871“. It also includes the side areas and the Euro coins of the other Euro countries that have been part of the valid Euro currency in Germany since 2002.

The clear layout, the colour illustrations depicting the front and back of all coins, the description of the inscriptions on the edge, the listing of diameter, metal compound, exact weight and the designers as well as a very detailed introduction with exact definitions of the levels of condition, the appraisal in up to four levels of condition, a list of the coin metals and alloys as well as a numismatic lexicon do not leave any questions unanswered.

This volume is to serve collectors as well as numismatists as a basis of information. Necessary supplements concerning the collection areas of the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany have been included.

The new issues of 2017 of all Euro countries with the pertinent number of issues and prices have again been put together for collectors of the 2-Euro commemorative coins. This has made the MICHEL a reference book collectors of this area can no longer do without.

The German coin issue programme for 2018 once again promises several interesting novelties. Following the 50-Euro gold coin on the subject of “reformation“ first issued in the Year of 2017, a new series celebrating “musical instruments“ will be coined. It will start with the “contrabass“. This series will be continued until 2022.

The series that focuses on the subject of “climate zones of Planet Earth“ will be continued with the “subtropical zone” that features an orange polymer rim. A different shade of orange will again be used for each different mint. This series will be continued until the Year of 2021.

The tendency of the coin market to pay high prices for coins in better-than-average condition is continuing. This is also reflected in the price quotations found in this latest edition of the catalogue.

The quotations of the coins have been adapted to the market conditions. Wherever available, the numbers of the current Euro coins issued have been supplemented and the 2017 issues have been included. In regards to German coins, the catalogue also features a preview of the projected issues in 2018 and the 2019 programme of issues.

We want to thank all users of the catalogue for their suggestions when preparing this new edition. In particular we want to thank the members of the professional association of the Deutsche Münzenfachhandel e.V. (German coin trade) for their active cooperation and the abundance of valuable information from dealers.

Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH

The Editorial Team

MICHEL provides top-quality information for collectors

Thanks to decades of experience and constant revision, the MICHEL catalogs are unmatched in terms of lay-out, comprehensiveness, accuracy and production. MICHEL catalogues provide all key information on stamps, postal stationary and coins. The systematic collection of data on collectable items, a well-organised system and detailed illustrations ensure easy use and a quick way to find required information. Each new edition of a MICHEL catalog is completely revised, updated and expanded so that it always reflects the latest situation on the market.

Users of the MICHEL catalogs value the comprehensive and detailed listings of collectable items. The MICHEL catalogs are among the best in the world when it comes to details, comprehensiveness and illustration. MICHEL products have been awarded well over 600 medals (including 31 gold), diplomas and honorary prizes in the course of the company’s history. The expertise of the Schwaneberger publishing house’s staff is outstandingly represented in the MICHEL catalogs.

The colourful, varied range of products includes standard and special-edition catalogues for Germany, Europe and overseas. There is also philatelic literature, the MICHEL-Exklusiv album, the MICHEL Colour Guide, the MICHEL-Lux examination lamp and the MICHEL-Rundschau monthly magazine. More than 85 different products in total.

MICHEL also enjoys a good reputation in electronic publishing thanks to various software programs, websites and e-catalogs. It is no wonder that the MICHEL catalogs have been known for years as the “philatelists’ bible”. However, bearing this accolade brings with it the responsibility of always remaining at the top with regard to quality.

The 669,000th MICHEL catalog number was issued recently. A look at the most important of the 85 different MICHEL catalogs reveals that the catalogues for Europe and overseas alone make up some 25,000 catalog pages. They contain 314,000 pictures and 1,800,000 price quotations. Most of this information is stored in powerful picture and text databases and is consulted, revised and corrected for each new edition of a MICHEL catalog. And of course that also applies to each individual page, irrespective of which MICHEL catalog it comes from. MICHEL goes to great lengths on its customers’ behalf. MICHEL’s editorial team spends an average of 45 minutes on research for each new set of stamps. Around 18,000 new stamps appear each year, which are then catalogued and published in the MICHEL-Rundschau, as well as in the relevant MICHEL catalog and online catalogue.

100 years of the MICHEL catalogue

It is more than 100 years since the stamp dealer Hugo MICHEL from Apolda in Thüringen published the first MICHEL stamp catalogue in 1909. He thereby created a product that would be continually be improved, but never surpassed. In the same year, publisher and philatelic editor Hugo Schwaneberger founded a publishing company that bore his name. The philatelist, who was well known in his field, created the Schwaneberger Album, the first album to adopt a scientific approach.
Owing to the great demand for MICHEL catalog, Hugo MICHEL was no longer able to dedicate himself to his career as a stamp dealer. He therefore sold the rights to the publisher Schwaneberger. The catalogue, which had only covered Europe until that point, was expanded by the new publishing house to include overseas countries.

Hugo MICHEL continued to edit the catalogue supplement, which is today known as the MICHEL-Rundschau. The company was then bought by the publisher Eugen Berlin. He moved it to Munich in 1950 where he came across a company, the Carl Geber printing works (now the Gerber Satz und Gerber publishing house) that was able to draw up the complicated catalogue typesetting. The publishing rights went to the Hohenester/Gerber families who assigned them to the publishing house, now trading as the “Schwaneberger Verlag”.

At the turn of the century other stamp catalogues had already appeared, but the remarkable success of the MICHEL catalog was attributed to its sophisticated and comprehensive cataloguing system. The stamps were numbered successively from the first number for each country, yet at the same time organised according to various sub-categories and genres, and described as fully as possible. This system was refined over the years and adapted where necessary - but never had to be changed! In fact, the MICHEL numbering system has become standard in Germany. This is underscored by the numerous licence contracts that the Schwaneberger Verlag has concluded with other publishers. All stock lists of German dealers are organised according to the MICHEL numbering system. Collectors exchange, buy and sell using MICHEL numbers.

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Michel Catalog Münzen Deutschland 2018

Inhalt:

Die deutschen Münzen ab 1871; d.h. Deutsche Staaten, Deutsches Reich, Notmünzen, Deutsche Kolonien, Besetzte Gebiete (Zweiter Weltkrieg), Danzig, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Saarland, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dazu die EURO-Kursmünzen und 2-Euro-Kurs-Gedenkmünzen aller Mitgliedstaaten; d.h. Andorra, Belgien, Estland, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Irland, Italien, Lettland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Monaco, Niederlande, Österreich, Portugal, San Marino, Slowakei, Slowenien, Spanien, Vatikan, Zypern.

Beschreibung:

• Ausführliche Katalogisierung der deutschen Münzen seit 1871 sowie der in Deutschland gültigen Euro-Münzen der anderen Euro-Länder
• Einführung mit numismatischem Lexikon und Index der Kursmünzen
• Aktualisierung und Überprüfung des gesamten Inhalts
• Zahlreiche Ergänzungen im Bereich der Eurokursmünzen
• Viele Preissteigerungen bei qualitativ überdurchschnittlich erhaltenen Münzen
• Neuheiten bis Ende 2018 und das Ausgabeprogramm für 2019
• Rund 2100 hochauflösende Farbabbildungen mit Vorder- und Rückseite sowie Beschreibung der Münzränder und über 20 000 Preisnotierungen

Produktinformation:

Edition: 22. Auflage, in Farbe
526 Seiten
152 mm x 203 mm, kartoniert
Erstverkaufstag: 01.03.2018
Verlag: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9-783-95402-230-42018 wird es wieder viele deutsche Münzneuheiten geben. Nachdem im letzten Jahr erstmals eine 50 € Gedenkmünze herausgegeben wurde, folgt nun gleich ein ganzer Serienauftakt. Von 2018 bis 2022 sollen insgesamt fünf Sondermünzen „Musikinstrumente“ erscheinen.

Dank der Qualität deutscher Musikinstrumente seien diese in der ganzen Welt gefragt und damit „Botschafter deutscher Musikkultur im In- und Ausland“, so das Bundesfinanzministerium.

Den Anfang der Reihe macht der Kontrabass nach einem Entwurf von Erich Ott aus München.

Abbildung: BRD MiNr. 261R & 261V

Presse Information

Im Jahr 1916 erschienen in Deutschland zwei attraktive Wertzeichensätze zu sechs bzw. acht Marken im kombinierten Buch- und Prägedruckverfahren. Das einheitliche Markenbild zeigt einen Leuchtturm und ein Segelschiff in rauer See und spricht damit auch Sammler maritimer Motive an. Doch typische Briefmarken sind die 14 Wertzeichen nicht. Herausgeber war die Deutsche Versicherungsbank, die die Marken mit Genehmigung des Reichspostamtes für den Versand versicherter Wertbriefe per U-Boot einsetzte. Der Nennwert der Marken umfasste sowohl den Versicherungsbeitrag, als auch das Porto. Den Transport nach Amerika übernahmen die Tauchboote der Deutschen Ozean-Reederei.

Der vorliegende MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial präsentiert das Sammelgebiet Tauchbootpost 1916/1917 in kompletter Neubearbeitung. Erstmals katalogisiert sind die zu den Wertzeichen gehörenden Wertkarten, Tauchbootbriefe der geplanten dritten Amerikafahrt und diplomatische Kurierpost des Auswärtigen Amtes. Hochauflösende Farbillustrationen aller Ausgaben für den Wertbriefversand, Portotabellen und postgeschichtliche Hintergrundinformationen machen das Sammelgebiet anschaulich.

Bunter sind aber auch andere Kapitel des MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial 2018 geworden, zum Beispiel die Inflationsausgaben, die Besetzungsausgaben im Ersten Weltkrieg und die Ausgaben der Belgischen Militärpost im Rheinland, Eupens und Malmédys. Gesamt wurden etwa 400 Farbabbildungen neu aufgenommen!

Dass die philatelistische Forschung nie stillsteht, beweisen mithin die Sammelgebiete Memel, Generalgouvernement und Kriegs- und Propagandafälschungen. Hier konnten Typenpaare, Zwischenstegpaare und Herzstücke sowie neue Erkenntnisse zu Gedenkblättern eingearbeitet werden. Und natürlich präsentiert die 48. Auflage des MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial auch wieder eine Fülle neuer Abarten, Plattenfehler und Besonderheiten.

Premiere haben auch die Internationalen Antwortscheine, die 2018 erstmals im MICHEL-Spezial für deutsche Briefmarken gelistet sind.

Um auch preislich möglichst aktuell zu sein, wurde wie jedes Jahr eine flächendeckende Marktanalyse durchgeführt – lebhafte Preisbewegungen ergaben sich zum Beispiel in den Sammelgebieten Altdeutschland, Deutsche Kolonien, Schiffspost und Sudetenland. Die Versteigerung einer umfangreichen Sammlung der Lokalausgaben von 1923 hat Neubewertungen dieses bisher extrem stabilen Gebietes mit teils erheblichen Preissprüngen nach oben ermöglicht. Als Krönung konnte eine neue MICHEL-Hauptnummer 1 für eine bisher unbekannte Lokalausgabe aus Rastenberg vergeben werden.

Unser herzlicher Dank gilt allen am MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial mitwirkenden Philatelieexperten und Beratern, aber auch unseren Lesern. Wir wünschen Ihnen allen viel Freude mit Ihrem neuen MICHEL! Und wer dann noch weiterlesen möchte, kann das tun: mit der MICHEL-Rundschau, dem monatlichen Philatelie-Fachmagazin aus dem Hause Schwaneberger.

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