NumisMaster.com Makes Coin Prices Available Online

Iola, WI (PRWEB) June 21, 2007 -- What's a coin worth? It's a question that surfaces often in life -- not necessarily when counting change at McDonald's, but at other times, like:

-When a great-grandparent bequeaths a coin collection to remaining family.

-When returning from a foreign country and taking note of leftover currency.

-When the nightly news carries stories like the Tampa treasure hunters who found $500 million worth of coins in an Atlantic Ocean shipwreck.

Krause Publications, the world's leading publisher of coin and paper money books and magazines, has launched a web resource where users of all types can satisfy their coin-related curiosity:

NumisMaster.

Available online at www.numismaster.com, NumisMaster opens Krause's coin and paper money database to a worldwide online audience and allows hobbyists to select and sort the information to fit their individual collecting interests.

This database comprises the content of every book Krause Publications has published in the Standard Catalog line of price guides for more than 50 years -- more than 1 million coin prices. Real-time pricing, featuring daily updates from a respected team of coin and paper money experts, makes NumisMaster a must-have tool for dealers and collectors. Customers can enjoy timely analysis of market trends, precious-metals market fluctuations, and auction-prices realized data -- all via a user-friendly website (some features coming soon).

NumisMaster allows users to:

-Manage their coin and paper money collections for free

-Find prices for individual items

-Learn from KP's numismatics experts, with a combined 150 years of experience

-Categorize their coins and keep track of the ones for which they are still searching

-Rest assured that their data is guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year

-Find upcoming coin and paper money shows from the industry's best show calendar

"NumisMaster is the innovative vehicle to provide information to coin collectors worldwide," said Kevin Isaacson, Numismatics Group Publisher at Krause Publications. "As an industry innovator, we carefully monitor industry trends and felt the need to create the most robust and easy to use Web-based product this industry has ever seen."

About Krause Publications

Krause Publications, based in Iola, Wis., is the world's largest publisher of leisure-time periodicals and books on collectibles, sewing and quilting, hunting, and fishing. Chet Krause, a long-time collector of coins, published the first issue of Numismatic News on Oct. 13, 1952, with nearly 1,000 readers. Today, Krause Publications, owned by F+W Publications, offers over 40 periodicals, 10 hobby shows and 750 reference and how-to books. F+W Publications, an ABRY Partners, LLC company, also operates book clubs, conferences, trade shows, interactive media and education programs.

Contact

Scott Tappa

Editorial director, NumisMaster

scott.tappa(at)fwpubs.com

715-445-4612, ext. 428

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