Been Looking For A Book Like This For A While, But I Have One Now.

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I had to rename the file. Dearborn had consecutive hyphens in the filename. The forum does not like that.

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Edit: Thanks Jbuck

Very nice. I need to pick up a copy sometime.

This book is now out of print, and supplies are dwindling. Amazon is selling the paperback version (like mine) but the CD version is gone. (as far as I can tell).

I have the final editions of the Modern, General, and Specialised Editions of SCWPM, the first tow as both book and cd versions.

I have the cd versions on my iPad, very useful for going to shows.

I know what you mean Orac! I had been collecting world notes for some years before the first Pick came out. What a revolutionary change. Remember, this was before the internet. You had no or little idea what a note was going to look like when you bought one through the mails. Most coin dealer didn't carry world currency. Now you had a common numbering system to use & what it looked like, even in glorious black & white. Approvals were a great option back then. View the notes at your leisure, then send back any you didn't want. My kids enjoyed this method of buying & we all looked forward to the next mailing.

I'm a big fan of the online resources (as, yes, they're very handy) but just a word of caution:

Nothing surpasses the SWCPM hard copy.
I have read a lot of criticism over these massive books, over the past 3 years. All in all, I feel that they're very informative & your 'go-to bible' when it comes to world currency. I'm really happy that I bought the two catalogues. Let me give you just a few reasons why.

First: I was interested in bidding on an Albanian mismatched serial number. When I looked it up in the SCWPM, I discovered that more notes had mismatched serials than matching serial numbers. This warning note in the SCWPM saved me $ big time. I felt a bit bad for the person who got into a bidding war on this Albanian typical note as they had sunk hundreds more than what the note was worth (I remember it was like a factor of 10X the BV).

Second: I have seen several collector's sets & specimens which are valued much less than the issued notes. While many of the Book Values for notes listed in the SCWPM can be outdated, it still provides a fairly decent ballpark figure (where to start at least) for estimating a note's value. It has helped me a lot in that way (though I know there are better more up to date online guides but they require a subscription fee).

Third: The online resources usually don't get into replacement note data (what distinguishes a replacement) since some countries are "Z" or "W" prefixes while other nations are even more complicated than that. Here's a thread at Collector's Universe on World Replacements.
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Anyway, I just added a replacement note from Finland (which I discovered has a "99" SN code through the info provided by the SCWPM). There was no info on replacements in any of the online resources I had checked.

There are other reasons which I won't go into here but the catalogue has helped me appreciate what has been undervalued as well as shapes some of my collecting goals, just to name a few.