Watercraft on World Coins - 9781898595502

The three-volume Watercraft on World Coins series is the first ever to narrate history through the medium of ships featured on coins. Each narrative provides the historical background and watercraft experience and circumstance of the sailors and soldiers, admirals and generals, explorers, naval commanders and fishermen who have merited a place in the historical record, and are associated with particular vessels that have merited the striking of a coin in record and rememberance. Wherever available, information is provided on the ships, their vital statistics and their history.

Each volume is organized as a catalog of "ship coins" according to the popular KM-numbering system. Coins that have a common design are grouped under separate headings. Included are both circulating coins and collector oriented commemoratives. The coin images represent the many different ways in which the ships are depicted.

Volume II, America and Asia, 1800-2008 includes more than six hundred narratives, for which more than five hundred illustrations are provided. Volume I, Europe, 1800-2005 was published in 2007 and was acclaimed in reviews as a book that should be owned by every collector of world ship coins. Volume III, Africa and Oceania, 1800-2011 is currently being prepared.

Each volume contains a select bibliography and an index listing the ships, persons and other major topics covered in the narratives.