Ronny,

Obviously you're no fan of the new catalog.

I used to submit updates to Krause, but stopped after seeing they ignored
them year after year. Why solicit this info if you intend to ignore it?

I have begun producing my own catalog pages for countries that I know very
well. It's not an easy process, but it _can_ be done correctly if you care.

One of the biggest problems is the arbitrary nature of the Pick number
assignment. There doesn't seem to be a consistent logic to it either within
a country or across countries.

Personally, I don't mind seeing varieties from different printers assigned
variety letters rather than new numbers if all that has changed is the
printer imprint. To me that's like a new date or signature variety. But if
there's a substantial change in the security features or note design, then
clearly a new number should be issued.


On 6/30/08 11:00 AM, in article
, "Ronny
Hick" wrote:

On 29 jun, 15:57, "Owen W. Linzmayer" wrote:
Ronny,

Yes, I have already taken a look at the list with the help of *an online
translation service. It's quite extensive. Why Krause fails to address these
many known issues is beyond me.

Last year I've sent the error's list from III/13 to Mr Cuhaj.
As a regular letter, printed on paper, with a ordinary letter.
And as mail.
I've got one reply by mail:

Thanks a bunch for the hard copy of the corrections to the World Paper Money
Catalog.

It is through efforts such as this that it will become a better book for all,
and be most useful to folks on the web...we are soon to go to that direction
also--in addition to a printed book. The book will not be going away.

You can check out the coin book product at www.numismaster.com

That's all.

Together with Arthur Matz, President of LANSA - he's a official
contributor of the SCWPM - we made corrections, additions and changes
in Latin America, for Peru (there are so many Nuevos Soles unlisted,
since 2000, and some older are wrong), Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil,
Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico etc.
What happened?
Those stupid idiots used our corrections for Paraguay ONLY - all other
work was useless. Nothing happens.
They didn't notice:
Peru: There are 14 unlisted banknotes, and two errors for listed
banknotes.
Uruguay: You cannot merge dates from 2000 and 2003 for 20 - 100 Pesos
Uruguayos because of different printers!
Brazillease take a look at
http://www.moneypedia.de/index.php/P...n#1_Real_.28P-
243.2C_P-243A.2C_P-251.29
and following text. You'll find ALL existing brazil Reais. Italic
catalog numbers are not given in the catalog, it's from my own. All
informations are given by Banco Central do Brazil on their own
homepage.
Mexico: A lot of dates are missing, for current banknotes and they
don't notice that current banknotes of paper have a mark for the
blinds. You cannot merge them all into one catalog number. 23 dates
and signature varieties are NOT listed.
Colombia: A lot of dates are missing.14 dates of the current banknotes
are unknown and there are some errors since P-439.
Venezuela: no new dates, 11 dates are missing!
And so on and so on - what the hell Cuhaj does? Sleeping all days
long?
And Krause only wants my money for this stupid catalog - but they do
not do anything.
While knowing of their paper money catalog I can never buy any other
catalog they publish - I always believe it's the same trash like in
the SCWPM.
This publishing company named Krause is one of the worst companies in
the world, maybe it's better to read noth korean communist papers with
more reality than the SCWPM has.
If you're making a poll "How do you like the catalog?", with notes
from A to F - this catalog will get medium a G.