More and more helpful but is it really necessary?

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	• 2009 Standard Catalog Of World Coins 2001-Date (Standard Catalog) Colin R Bruce Krause Publications, 2008 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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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, 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) with minute differences in descriptions as if there were 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.

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Enter the creative artistry of 21st century coinage. The Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001 to Date is your complete gallery of fascinating world money. This one volume provides you with listings of 21st coinage from all parts of the world, including 85,000 thoroughly analyzed values, in up to five grades of condition. All known collector series, singles, bi-metallic and tri-metallic coins, and many more coins of the present century are featured in this authoritative reference.