500 000

The Numista catalogue has reached a new milestone: 500 000 types catalogued.

This reflects the continuous efforts to expand the catalogue, while also improving the amount of information available for each type.

For reference, we reached 315k types in January 2023, 350k in January 2024 and 400k in January 2025.

The catalogue now includes 304k types of coins, 48k banknotes, 56k tokens, 83k medals, and 10k paper exonumia.

A major contributor to this recent growth has been Roman provincial coins, which now represent more than 10% of the catalogue.

Thank you to all contributors and referees who help build and review the catalogue!

Nicely done. 
Just a tat inflated due to many of the ancient coins where it seems that most die variants get their own catalog page/whole specimen collections seem to be added by a script, again with there own pages. I hope at some point a team of experts can shrink at least some of them a bit more together wherever possible.

The ammount of ancient coins was added from a database made by experts. I am not sure anyone is going to shrink it meaningfully.

Congratulations for the half million! 👏

Just for curiosity, anyone knows the number of types the whole Krause have?

Nice one!😄

Geison

Congratulations for the half million! 👏

 

Just for curiosity, anyone knows the number of types the whole Krause have?

There is no total to be found anywhere. And hard to estimate. Some pages have 12 coins, some dense with patterns have 120. 

With low estimates of 30 coins per page, just standard Krause coin catalogues 1601-date have at least 300 000 entries. There are also Unusual world coins and other Krause catalogues. Hard to say, maybe we are on par with Krause on number of types, but we are covering much larger time, our Ancient category numbers over 100 000 types.

Geison

Congratulations for the half million! 👏

 

Just for curiosity, anyone knows the number of types the whole Krause have?

On this page we seem to have 114.250 coins with KM-reference … anyone dare to guess how many we are missing?

Standard Catalog of World Coins – Numista

A rough search through World and Unusual Coins there are about 150K KM#, Y# and X references +/- a couple thousand.

Idolenz

A rough search through World and Unusual Coins there are about 150K KM#, Y# and X references +/- a couple thousand.

Interesting! For comparison, we have 184k types of coins or fantasy coins dated from 1500 to present.

BramVB

Geison

Congratulations for the half million! 👏

 

Just for curiosity, anyone knows the number of types the whole Krause have?

On this page we seem to have 114.250 coins with KM-reference … anyone dare to guess how many we are missing?

Standard Catalog of World Coins – Numista

 

I looked at three countries in SCWC (Numismaster) and Numista with KM numbers.

France 3588 Numismaster  3016 Numista  84%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  834 Numista  87%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1302 Numista 76%

rsirian1

I looked at three countries in SCWC (Numismaster) and Numista with KM numbers.

 

France 3588 Numismaster  3016 Numista  84%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  834 Numista  87%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1302 Numista 76%

It just shows we are not exhaustive in adding the KM numbers.

Here are the numbers by replacing the condition of having a KM# number by a condition on coins dated 1500 to present.

France 3588 Numismaster  5660 Numista  158%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  1312 Numista  138%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1725 Numista 101%

Of course there will never be a 1 on 1, as we sometimes merge km-types and sometimes split them.

Would be interesting to check the coins since 1500 that are missing KM … I don't think we can search for that ourselves?

You can search for KM# “missing”.

Example for France: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?e=france&r=&st=147&cat=y&im1=&im2=&ru=&ie=&ca=3&no=missing&v=&cu=&a=&dg=1500-&i=&b=&m=&f=&t=&t2=&w=&mt=&u=&g=&c=&wi=&sw=

Xavier

rsirian1

I looked at three countries in SCWC (Numismaster) and Numista with KM numbers.

 

France 3588 Numismaster  3016 Numista  84%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  834 Numista  87%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1302 Numista 76%

It just shows we are not exhaustive in adding the KM numbers.

 

Here are the numbers by replacing the condition of having a KM# number by a condition on coins dated 1500 to present.

 

France 3588 Numismaster  5660 Numista  158%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  1312 Numista  138%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1725 Numista 101%

Hi, just curious, why you use 1500 and not 1600 when talking about KM codes?

Considering 1600 would probably be more accurate.

I considered 1500 because they started cataloguing the coins from 1501-1600 with numbers MB#. It was never published, but some of them are visible in Numismaster, for example https://numismaster.com/MC_160261

The only published MB# references in catalog form are in the Standard Catalog of German Coins 1501-Date with ~6900 and a few hundred more different ones in Standard Catalog of World Gold Coins 1601-Date (don't know why it's called 1601-date as they also list 1400s-1500s coins).

Xavier

rsirian1

I looked at three countries in SCWC (Numismaster) and Numista with KM numbers.

 

France 3588 Numismaster  3016 Numista  84%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  834 Numista  87%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1302 Numista 76%

It just shows we are not exhaustive in adding the KM numbers.

 

Here are the numbers by replacing the condition of having a KM# number by a condition on coins dated 1500 to present.

 

France 3588 Numismaster  5660 Numista  158%

Sweden 954 Numismaster  1312 Numista  138%

Spain 1709 Numismaster 1725 Numista 101%

The data posted by @rsirian1 , at least as far as Spain is concerned, is very misleading and leads to errors, which is why one might think, as @Xavier  said, that “It just shows we are not exhaustive in adding the KM numbers.”.

As we all know, KM codes separate each type by mint, so in Spain and many other countries like France, there are sometimes many subtypes (entries) that Numista lists on a single page, meaning the equivalence will never be exactly the same. Likewise, there are many non-existent KM numbers and many Numista entries without a KM number because Krause does not include that specific type.

Analyzing only Spain (from the first KM code to the last one of the Peseta system), Numismaster contains 1108 of the 1709 pages mentioned by rsirian, while Numista contains 1096 (meaning only 12 pages with KM codes are missing from Numista; we will analyze this further as they may be nonexistent types). 

In other words, Numista contains 1108 Krause "types" within 734 "types or pages" in Numista. 

In summary, Numista contains 98.92% of the existing KM codes for Spain from the beginning (1600) until the introduction of the Euro (and I don't believe any KM codes are missing in Numista from the Euro's introduction, so the final percentage will be even higher).

Congratulations🤩