The largest one in the publishing industry is Krause Publications. Their books have wide distribution and they sell directly to the public, so most coin shops do not stock them. However, the paper is of low quality and the prices shown many times are not as accurate as they could be. But all in all they do a good job for both coin and paper money collectors, if you don't pay any attention to pricing that's ten years old and is not reflective of today's market.

Book publishers could be compared to wineries, you have bad wines, good wines, fair wines, excellent wines, and then you have the connoisseur's choice wines.

BNR Press publishes the connoisseur's choice books. In the book business BNR Books could be compared to Yale University Press Books (books of real distinction).

Fred Schwan's BNR Press puts out top quality information books and price guides for the discriminating and advanced collector. All of his authors are the leaders and best researchers in the the field of numismatics.

His line of collector price guide books stand out like a Stallion in a parking lot full of Fords. Among other things, I have been a rare book collector, book publisher, and paper money collector myself. Because of their high quality and excellent information I have given BNR Publishing a site of their own, rather than just listing them with the other good and excellent coin and paper money books we market.

Fred Schwan doesn't publish low quality books to make money, he publishes the very best choice quality books on numismatics money can buy. In numismatic collector books there are many gaps in the information available, when Fred chooses a book to publish, it fills a great deal of the information gap.

I have been a numismatic book collector for over 40 years and all of the following books are in my library. The books Fred chooses to publish are the pride of my personal numismatic library. Each book is sold with a 30 day money back guarantee. My two favorite books are World War II Remembered and his latest book, the Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payments.

Fred started in 1977 publishing the finest reference books available on paper money. Among other greats in the field of numismatics, BNR features such authors as Hessler, Bloom, Criswell, Reed, Bowling, and of course Fred's own highly researched great books. Every book has exhaustive detailed information and 100's of photos and illustrations to make positive identification of your notes simple.