The most universally accepted book on world coins with the most up to date pricing - it's the one you need The 2011 Standard Catalog of® World Coins 1901-2000 offers information compiled from data provided by over 100 experts from around the world and garnered from a variety of internet sources including popular online auctions sites. With few exceptions, the values stated in this 38th edition have risen over those in previous catalogs. From researchers to collectors to dealers, everyone counts on this single reference. The Standard Catalog of® World Coins has been the hobby's central information source for nearly 40 years.Within these covers, you will find that each coin listing provides: • Up-to-date values listed by date and grade • Universal KM reference number • Clear descriptions of obverse and reverse designs Coins struck in gold, platinum, palladium and silver offer the following ideal information for charting a course in this turbulent precious metals market: • Total coin weight • Fineness • Actual precious metal weight The Standard Catalog of® World Coins is the coin catalog you've come to depend on and the one you can trust for the best in world numismatics.

GET STARTED COLLECTING COINS Have fun and Avoid Costly Mistakes Want to know just what's in that box of coins Grandpa Earl left you? Or do you just want to embark on a hobby that will bring you years of enjoyment, and maybe a profit? Warman's U.S. Coin Collecting is the book that will tell you everything you need to know about collecting U.S. Coins from author Alan Herbert. Topics Include: • What is my coin worth? • Don't clean your coin! • Tools of the trade • Proof coins, proof and mint sets • Commemorative coins • Grading coins • Coins as an investment • Bullion coins And more than 100 questions and answers about U.S. coins, including little-known facts.

This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Between 2007 and 2014, a Greek-American team investigated an impressive array of Early Roman to Early Byzantine buildings and burials on the Koutsongila Ridge at Kenchreai, the eastern port of ancient Corinth. This volume presents the project's final results, revealing abundant evidence not only for the history of activity in a transitional urban/suburban landscape, but also for the society, economy, and religion of local residents. Important structural and mortuary discoveries abound, including a district of lavish houses with exquisite mosaic pavement and an Early Christian Octagon. The large artifactual assemblage encompasses a variety of objects from pottery and lamps to glass, coins, and jewelry. Bones and teeth from over 200 individuals illustrate differences in health over time, while thousands of bones and shells from a variety of animals attest to diet and subsistence. This study paints a picture of a Corinthian community, small but prosperous and well connected, actively participating in an urban elite culture expressed through decorative art and monumental architecture.

Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World delves deep into the experience of Celtic communities and individuals in the late medieval period through to the modern age. Its thirteen essays range widely, from Scottish soldiers in France in the fifteenth century to Gaelic-speaking communities in rural New South Wales in the twentieth, and expatriate Irish dancers in the twenty-first. Connecting them are the recurring themes of memory and foresight: how have Celtic communities maintained connections to the past while keeping an eye on the future? Chapters explore language loss and preservation in Celtic countries and among Celtic migrant communities, and the influence of Celtic culture on writers such as Dylan Thomas and James Joyce. In Australia, how have Irish, Welsh and Scottish migrants engaged with the politics and culture of their home countries, and how has the idea of a Celtic identity changed over time? Drawing on anthropology, architecture, history, linguistics, literature and philosophy, Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World offers diverse, thought-provoking insights into Celtic culture and identity.

The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably changes the social and economic lives of people in these port cities and, subsequently, of their fellow compatriots farther inland. Studies of port cities have focused on the interactive political and economic relationship between trading centers. The center of attention in this book is socioeconomic life and cultural identity, which are shaped by the movement of goods, people, knowledge, and information, particularly when the community faces a crisis. Transnational studies focus on cross-border connections between people, institutions, commodities, and ideas, with an emphasis on their global presence. This book looks at the responses of different localities to the same global crisis. It gathers a selection of the fifty papers presented at the conference on "Coping with Transnational Crisis: Chinese Economic and Social Lives in East Asian Port Cities, 1850-1950," held in Hong Kong on June 7-11, 2016. The period from the 1850s to the outbreak of war in the Pacific in the late 1930s encompasses two major transnational crises with significant impacts on the Chinese population in Southeast Asian port cities in terms of their way of living and the construction of their identity: the emergence of bubonic plague in the 1880s and 1920s and the global economic crisis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The authors discuss the social and economic lives in various South East Asian port cities where many residents had to cope with these transnational crises. They do so through examining institutional measurements, rituals and festivals, communication, knowledge and information exchange as well as identity (re)construction. In addition, they explore how local communities responded to knowledge and information between the port cities and cities as well as inland locations. The chapters in this book offer solid grounds for future comparisons, not only based on a specific time or event but also on how society reacted over time, space, and various types of crises.

This interdisciplinary collection, written by experts in their fields, addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; and the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models.

Whether it's Canadian coins you see in your everyday change, gold or platinum bullion coins of the 1990s, or even specimen sets from the early 20th century that is your fancy, the 2012 Coins of Canada digital download is one source you will be glad you have.

Whether you're trying to determine the year of a worn tala coin from late 20th century Samoa, identify the image on the reverse side of a 1937 Fiji sixpence, or any other identification and pricing questions you have about coins from the South Pacific Islands region, this digital download is the place to look for the answers. In the 2012 Coins of South Pacific Islands electronic download you'll find detailed descriptions, current values for multiple condition grades, and actual-size illustrations for coins from all corners of the country.

Whether it's florin coinage from Aruba that pique your interest, centavos from Cuba that you collect, or any other combination of coins from the provinces that make up the Caribbean Islands, this 2012 Coins of the World digital download is one source you will be glad you have. In 2012 Coins of Caribbean Islands you'll find detailed descriptions, current values for multiple condition grades, actual-size illustrations, mintage and date of issue, among other important details.