Twenty-first Century Wonders Creativity abounds in the modern collectible coin market. The Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 9th Edition, brings this inspiration and inventiveness from today's World Mints, Central Banks and their distributors to light in the finest such resource on the market. Working with a team of 100 experts worldwide, the editors at Krause Publications produce an exhaustingly thorough and complete catalog rich with new issue coinage and value revisions reflecting this fast-paced and exciting market. The market is witnessing strong prices for more low-mintage modern commemoratives. Special packaging, remarkable construction and broadly popular themes are bringing 21st Century commemoratives to a wider collecting population, while smaller mintages are ensuring stronger long term support for higher values. Inside you will find: Current market valuations Universally accepted KM identification numbers Detailed descriptions and updated mintages Thousands of new listings For the first time numeric grades for all types The addition of PF63 and PF65 grades Making sense of the 21 Century one coin at a time.|Thanks to the invaluable insight and expertise of 100 coins experts worldwide, the new edition of the Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, is brimming with new issue coinage and value revisions reflecting the growing market for modern commemorative precious metal coins in their myriad of permutations. More than 15,000 actual-size illustrations provide collectors, dealers and enthusiasts with vital visual information to this rapidly growing collecting area.|Working with a team of 100 experts worldwide, the editors at Krause Publications produce an exhaustingly thorough and complete catalog rich with new issue coinage and value revisions reflecting this fast-paced and exciting market.