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THE WORLD SILVER COINS COLLECTOR'S CHECKLIST: A Region-by-Region Reference for Building a World Silver Coin Collection
Author(s): Maximillian Chu (Author), Maximillian Chu (Author)
- Publication Date: August 28, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 43 pages
- ISBN-10: B0HGYQWCTZ
Book Description
Welcome to the Series
Silver has been struck into coins on every inhabited continent for well over two thousand years, by empires, kingdoms, colonies, and republics that in most cases no longer exist under those names. That history is enormous, and most collectors only ever explore a small corner of it: a home country's coinage, a favorite era, or a single denomination followed across the decades.
This series exists to make the rest of that world approachable. Each volume takes a region, a country, or in two cases a special topic, and lays out its silver coinage as a straightforward checklist: what was struck, when, in what metal, and roughly what it is worth today. The goal is not to replace a specialist catalog or a professional appraisal, but to give a collector, a dealer, or simply a curious reader a clear, consistent starting point for any corner of the world they want to explore next.
Every volume in this series follows the same format, so once you are comfortable with one book, you already know how to read all of them.
What's in the Series
The series is organized as nine volumes. Five combine every country covered in a broad world region into a single Complete Edition; three split Europe's larger country count across a balanced three-book set; and one apiece is devoted to Russia and to the ancient and historical world, each distinctive enough to stand alone.
Latin American and Caribbean Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela in South America; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in Central America; and Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago across the Caribbean. Twenty-four countries in one volume, from Spanish colonial pieces of eight through 20th-century commemorative crowns.
North American Silver Coins — Complete Edition
The United States, from Flowing Hair half dimes through the modern American Silver Eagle; Canada, including Newfoundland's separate coinage before its 1949 union with Canada; and Mexico, from the Pillar Dollar through the Libertad bullion series.
African and Middle Eastern Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Twenty-one countries and territories, from South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Tunisia, through Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, to the further colonial and mandate markets of Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, Zanzibar, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, and Libya.
Asian and Oceanic Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Eighteen markets across Asia and Oceania: China, Japan, India, Hong Kong, Thailand, French Indochina, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, alongside the Dutch East Indies, the Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.
European Silver Coins, Volumes 1 through 3 — Complete Edition
Covering all of Europe.
Silver has been struck into coins on every inhabited continent for well over two thousand years, by empires, kingdoms, colonies, and republics that in most cases no longer exist under those names. That history is enormous, and most collectors only ever explore a small corner of it: a home country's coinage, a favorite era, or a single denomination followed across the decades.
This series exists to make the rest of that world approachable. Each volume takes a region, a country, or in two cases a special topic, and lays out its silver coinage as a straightforward checklist: what was struck, when, in what metal, and roughly what it is worth today. The goal is not to replace a specialist catalog or a professional appraisal, but to give a collector, a dealer, or simply a curious reader a clear, consistent starting point for any corner of the world they want to explore next.
Every volume in this series follows the same format, so once you are comfortable with one book, you already know how to read all of them.
What's in the Series
The series is organized as nine volumes. Five combine every country covered in a broad world region into a single Complete Edition; three split Europe's larger country count across a balanced three-book set; and one apiece is devoted to Russia and to the ancient and historical world, each distinctive enough to stand alone.
Latin American and Caribbean Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela in South America; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in Central America; and Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago across the Caribbean. Twenty-four countries in one volume, from Spanish colonial pieces of eight through 20th-century commemorative crowns.
North American Silver Coins — Complete Edition
The United States, from Flowing Hair half dimes through the modern American Silver Eagle; Canada, including Newfoundland's separate coinage before its 1949 union with Canada; and Mexico, from the Pillar Dollar through the Libertad bullion series.
African and Middle Eastern Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Twenty-one countries and territories, from South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Tunisia, through Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, to the further colonial and mandate markets of Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, Zanzibar, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, and Libya.
Asian and Oceanic Silver Coins — Complete Edition
Eighteen markets across Asia and Oceania: China, Japan, India, Hong Kong, Thailand, French Indochina, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, alongside the Dutch East Indies, the Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.
European Silver Coins, Volumes 1 through 3 — Complete Edition
Covering all of Europe.