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Originally catalogs were just dealers' price lists, though today that is less common. The catalogs of some major publishers continue to serve as an official price list for the publisher. For example, Stanley Gibbons in the United Kingdom specifically states in the catalog that the price listed is the estimated selling price by Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
A coin catalog (or coin catalogue) is a listing of coin types. Information may include pictures of the obverse and reverse (front and back), date and place of minting, distribution type, translation of inscriptions, description of images, theme, metal type, mintage, edge description, orientation of the coin, weight, diameter, thickness, design credentials, shape and prices for various grades.
It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and purported to list all the stamps of the world, with prices for each. A notice inside does caution the reader that "it is simply impossible for any one to always have every stamp" in stock. The original catalog has been reprinted.
His first catalogue was a single sheet of paper with a price list, 8 by 12 inches, showing the merchandise for sale and ordering instructions. Montgomery Ward identified a market of merchant-wary farmers in the Midwest. Within two decades, his single-page list of products grew into a 540-page illustrated book selling over 20,000 items.
The catalog started out as a price list for the dealer Hugo Michel of Apolda.By 1920 it was split into two volumes, for "Europe" and "overseas", and eventually grew to a present-day size of about a dozen volumes covering the entire world, with additional specialized volumes bringing the total to some forty catalogs.
Prices may be posted online. Some collectors annotate their copies of the catalogs, to record prices brought and even buyers' identities. The actual physical auction catalog is limited to print runs which started in 2005 when the major auction houses created their own app. Since 2020, it is rare that you can purchase the physical auction catalog.
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Standard Catalog of World Crowns and Talers from 1601 to date, 1st Edition, publication date 1994, Krause Publications, ISBN 978-0-8734-1211-7; Standard Catalog of World Gold Coins: With Platinum and Palladium Issues: 1601–present, 6th Edition, publication date 2009, Krause Publications, ISBN 978-1-4402-0424-1 Digital copy available separately.