Type: Detailed catalogues
Coverage: 179, 323, 180, 214 pp. listing more than 200 coin and jeton types from the earliest minting to 1797, also the coins of Schönau
Availability: Each title had a print run of 500 copies, but they are available with a little searching. Copies presently appear on ABEBooks and MA-Shops
Price: Each book tends to be around $20-$25.
Pros: Authoritative coverage with weights, diameters, legend transcriptions, numerous lettering varieties, etc. This is a scholarly work with excellent photos and drawings.
Cons: I don't like the very stiff bindings, eventually the spines will crack.

If you're on a budget and are looking for a worthy catalogue of the city of Aachen's coins, forget hunting down Menadier's book and spend your money here instead. You can probably get by with just the latter two works and skip the IIII and XII heller books if you don't care about detailed die studies. Menadier includes much more historical information, and covers a wider area around Aachen itself. I don't know if it's just my copies, but the binding on three of the four I own is very tight and I fear under much stress the spines would crack, especially as the glue ages. It was difficult to open the books for scanning a sample page and get more than half of a page readable without damaging them.

Die Aachener Münzen ()
Julius Menadier, 1913, Berlin
Hardcover

Type: Catalogue and numismatic history
Coverage: 515 pp., 21 plates listing 467 major coin types with numerous varieties from the earliest minting to 1797, plus medallic pieces and other exonumia from Aachen city and surrounding issuers.
Availability: Uncommon, but not excessively so. Copies frequently come up in larger library sales, and occasionally on ABEBooks.
Price: $80-$100
Pros: The standard work for a very long time, includes measurements, transcriptions of source documents, pedigrees of nobility, and more.
Cons: Plates are average, not every coin type is shown.

I'm not sure if the book shown is a reprint edition or the original bound in a single volume at the time of issue. The first book is historical information about Aachen's coinage and minting documents, minting quantities, etc. The second book is the actual catalogue, from the Merovingians until 1797. In addition to Aachen itself, coins covered include Borne, Elsloo, Falkenburg, Frankenberg, Heid und Bleid, Heinsberg, Randerath, Schönau, and Schonvorst.

ANHALT

Type: Catalogue
Coverage: 220 pp., 25 pp. supplement, 83 total plates listing 1028 major coin and medal types with numerous varieties from the late 1390's to 1904. Mann's coverage is interesting, read below.
Availability: Very rare, I've only ever seen one copy available outside auction sales of numismatic libraries.
Price: $100 plus, even for the reprint.
Pros: Copious lettering, symbol, and spacing varieties described for each type, full legend transcriptions, detailed design descriptions. Nearly all major types and many varieties are illustrated.
Cons: Only the medals have their dimensions and weights given. Photo quality of the plates, as is typical for early works, is average at best.

I searched high and low for this book for several years and had to settle for the reprint. It is quite a difficult title to find. The coverage is interesting as it not only includes the areas of Anhalt itself and its divisions, but also the coins and medals issued in the name of sons and daughters of the rulers who married outside of Anhalt.

Type: Catalogue and numismatic history
Coverage: 573 pp., 36 plates listing 1577 coins from Breisgauer pfennigs in the 12-13th century until 1955.
Availability: Out of print, but not rare. ABEBooks turned up three copies as I wrote this
Price: $75-100
Pros: Extensive detail for each type and variety, weights, diameters, legends, numerous older source references, quality plates
Cons: Main types are illustrated but most varieties are not.

Friedrich Wielandt also authored numerous books on the coins of the Swiss Cantons and these are often found when searching online. This 3rd edition is a very high quality publication on heavy glossed paper. Each coin is given a thorough description, often with weights of multiple individual pieces. The plates are clear and sharp, the only minor drawback being not every coin is shown. There are certainly enough included, however, to make identification easy.

BAMBERG

Type: Catalogue
Coverage: 278 pp., 454 coins described and illustrated.
Availability: Larger numismatic book sellers like Mevius, Muenzgalerie, and other may have a copy.
Price: $50-75
Pros: Exquisite binding and printing quality, weights, legends, extensive historical catalogue references, mintmasters, diemasters, etc. Almost every coin listed is illustrated with a detailed photo of a high-grade example.
Cons: Almost nothing, complaining about not giving the coin diameters is nitpicking as the coins are illustrated right at their descriptions.

The Suddeutsche Münzkataloge series are some of the finest quality publications I've acquired. Pick these up at your earliest convenience before they grow scarce. A concise monetary history of the Bishopric is followed by the catalogue itself, which includes nice touches like the heraldic coats of arms and a table of dates and denominations for each bishop. It concludes with lists of the bishops, mintmasters, diemasters, significant finds of Bamberg coins, and a list of monetary unions in which Bamberg participated. This and the other books in the series should not be missed.

Type: Catalogue and numismatic history
Coverage: 248 pp., 7 plates, 144 coins described.
Availability: Can be found online relatively easily.
Price: $40-60
Pros: Finely bound and printing, includes everything expected in a detailed catalogue and reference work in addition to the historical information .
Cons: None.

BAVARIA

Type: Catalogue
Coverage: 80 pp., 31 plates, 455 coins listed.
Availability: Not widely available, one copy on ABEBooks as I write this
Price: $60-$80
Pros: Very good quality plates illustrating every type, useful tables of denominations and minting years.
Cons: Bare-bones listings don't give weight, diameter, or legends for most coins.

Bayerische Münzen vom Silberpfennig zum Golddukaten ()
Walter Grasser, 1980 Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Bayern
Hardcover

Type: Illustrated numismatic history
Coverage: 198 pp., copiously illustrated throughout, from the earliest coinage in the region to the 20th century
Availability: Several copies available online from ABEbooks and elsewhere
Price: $15-25
Pros: Many fine coin illustrations printed at very high quality, histories for the Imperial cities, bishoprics, etc., not just the Kingdom.
Cons: For the role it attempts to fill, none.

This is a beautiful little book that can be found very cheaply online and enjoyed for its hundreds of illustrations (some in color) even if you don't understand a word of German. There are page reprints from early books, old woodcuts, handbills, etc.

BENTHEIM-TECKLENBURG-RHEDA

Type: Catalogue and numismatic history
Coverage: 72 pp.+16 pp. supplement, 6 total plates, 144 coin types described with variants.
Availability: The original is difficult to find and very expensive. The reprint is still available directly from H. Th. Wenner
Price: €40
Pros: Detailed legends and numerous small variants are catalogued. Extensive research went into the histories.
Cons: Weights are hit and miss, gold and silver coins often have them, copper rarely does. Diameters almost never given. The original plates were mediocre at best. The Wenner reprint of them loses nothing, however. It is a fine reproduction.

Type: Catalogue and numismatic history
Coverage: 180 pp., 156 coin types described with variants
Availability: Still available direct from the publisher, Bussert & Stadeler, at a very fair price
Price: €15
Pros: Handsomely bound with the highest quality printing, many interesting photos of seals, a foldout map, and more
Cons: None.

Here is a richly detailed book covering this small county and Principality in Niedersachsen. The three authors cover different areas. Behrens wrote the House history, Denicke the section on bracteates, and Schrock the section on late medieval and later coins.