Why has Krause stopped referencing coins? [opgelost]

In my collection I have about 400 coins by now of which I cannot find the KM# on Numista or elsewhere. Is there a reason Krause stopped issuing reference codes? Please advise.

Just google 'krause bankruptcy' and you'll find your answer.

What will the new reference be?

Citeer: "CoinCollector1243"​What will the new reference be?

​Open point, really.

I'm a contributor. Here is an "answer " from "km"

Hope you are doing well and staying healthy!

We are working directly in the database and making changes and updates all the time. You can send your updates to me. Right now I am working from home, so the address and phone number below is not active, however, the email is fine.

As before, I store everyone's input in files awaiting cross referencing and entry. Much of my time lately is also being spent on testing a new website platform for a new live database, which should be available on the web later this year. The first you might seen your updates and lots of other new material would be through this website. We are also publishing the magazines; Numismatic News, Bank Note Reporter, Coins and World Coin News. I have been writing quite a bit for World Coin News since late in the fall of 2019. Mostly new issues updates, auction reports, book reviews and such.

All of the F + W Media books were bought by Penguin Random House. We published the SCWC 1901-2000 47th edition through F + W and then all remaining stock was handed over to PRH. We gave them completed files for the SCWC 2001-Date 14th edition, but they have not yet published that book. PRH is taking pre-orders through Amazon and listing the publication date as August 2020.

I have pre-ordered a copy for myself, because I think that will be the only way for me to obtain a copy of my last book. Keep in mind that I finished the updating for the SCWC 2001-Date 14th edition in July 2019. The only place I have seen PRH offering the old KP book titles is through Amazon.

Many years of work were expelled by many people, myself very much included, to develop the SCWC series of five titles. It would be very sad if no more were ever produced, but that is truly out of my hands at this point. However, I do still have the ability to continue updating the database, as that was bought, along with the magazines, by my new employer Active Interest Media (AIM). AIM is supporting the COTY program and encouraging the build-out for a new website, so I am feeling good about the survival of the data I have spend so much of my life building.

We too have been working from home since March 16th. We get out once a day for a walk and once a week for supplies. All of this is done very close to home and while wearing face masks. I'm glad we are still able to work on the magazines and database! It's important to see that the hobby of coin collecting stays strong.

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You might have noticed, that it looks like the future editions ar only in paper format, which I fully understand, since the digital were PIRATED wildly and I've even seen them in swap lists for 10 $.... how do you think you can run a business like that?

Who killed the SCWC? The cheap skaters, thanks for that, please respect copyrights. KM would have been able to survive, but now I really don't know, and I don't think numista is a possible alternative, mixing everything up , coins, tokens, medals, currencies, wallets and what have you?

Concentrate on your goal and go for it it, but not everything at the same time, AND think about what will happen after Xavier?

As fas as I know the coin catalogs where some of the few items in their production that made a profit and that multiple bad investments in other genres where the downfall of the pubisher taking the SCWC down with them.

Citeer: "Idolenz"​As fas as I know the coin catalogs where some of the few items in their production that made a profit and that multiple bad investments in other genres where the downfall of the pubisher taking the SCWC down with them.

​Do you think Numista will become a new reference?

I don't think so, we are a collection of references not really one ourself a bit like a Wiki just with way worse source linking
Also Numista listings tend to changes quite a bit and this not good for a standard reference in the longrun.