They weren't very good at assigning numbers over the past couple of years. With the magazine and catalog separate, unless there is a big uptick in demand it doesn't seem likely we'll see a new edition.
If we don't have one major catalog, what do we do?i
For example the new US Innovation Dollar series. Or the 2018 and 2019 America The Beautiful Quarters...
It seems like we've been muddling along for a while, but ???
I know what you are saying and you are concerned about a few US 2018 or 2019 coins.
Australian coins from 2014 don't have KM numbers.
Take the Australian 1 dollar coin for example ...
From just 1984 to 2013 there are approximately 122 KM#'s in use just for that denomination.
Since then (2014 to now) there have been a further 97 different coins $1 issued that would need a separate KM#. And that is Royal Australian Mint only, does not include the Perth Mint.
Then there are all the 20 cent, 50 cent, $2, $5 etc Australian coins issued in that time that also don't have KM#'s. All up I estimate nearly 300 are lacking KM#'s. It would be a big job to fix that up.
Krause have lost the plot and I can't see it being fixed.
Mike
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While I fear that you are right that there will be no more KM#'s, I haven't ENTIRELY given up hope....yet.
Here's why:
As you know, Penguin Random House purchased the books division of F+W (including, presumably, the Krause catalogs). Penguin Random House is a huge company with immense assets to invest IF IT SEES A RETURN on that investment.
When a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation buys an asset from bankruptcy, it will adopt one of two strategies. The first is a "milking" strategy that invests nothing in the asset and just rides the declining "long tail" revenues into the sunset. If I'm honest, this is likely what Penguin will do with these assets. The second strategy, however, is a "growth" strategy that will see investment in the products and catalogs. I have been involved in both strategies, and I can tell you that the second is a lot more fun than the first.
It all comes down to what the bean counters tell the decision makers. To drastically simplify the decision making process: If they say that for every $1 you invest in a catalog, you will get $1 back, they will milk the catalog into the sunset and we won't see any new KM numbers. If they say that for every $1 you invest in the catalog, you will get $2 back, you will see them shoveling money into it as fast as they can and we'll get new KM numbers.
So, in short, you are probably right, but the optimist in me still wants to wait before admitting defeat.
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If anyone here at Numista has any informal connections in Brussels, mybe it can be proposed, that European Union within the framework of European Heritage, makes some kind of a coin platform with "EU KM" coin list - well at least for the states of Europe at the beginning. Maybe more non-EU countries will follow. I guess in the age when hard money is going slowly into extinction, it would be a nice time that some national bodies would take care of this heritage in a joint public manner.
lp
I just listened to a recent CoinWorld Podcast and an executive from Whitman Publishing (publisher of the Red book) was talking about how they are making a big push into, inter alia, world numismatics. This raises two interesting possibilities if Penguin Random House is not interested in maintaining and growing the KM catalog:
1. Whitman could buy the KM catalog from Penguin Random House and it could flourish under their leadership.
2. Whitman could fill the void left by the KM catalog by investing heavily in their own series of world catalogs.
Either possibility could be a be a good one for us.
