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Russian Federation
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When I tried to count the countries in my collection, I came up with an 130-ish figure. However, that included a lot of "countries" that some would consider just historical varieties on the same one (e.g. Grand Principality of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, RSFSR, USSR and Russian Federation were all separate on my list... and then there's Tver, and I still don't know how to count Siberia if/when I eventually acquire any of their coins).
Okay, Russia might be correct here - but what about France and Germany? And IIRC even the UK was named differently in 1699, 1797, 1807, 1899, and 1971 (all years taken from coins in my collection - and then there's the Scottish shilling from the 1950s to further complicate things up).
Oh, and I'm surprised how many of you are missing Mongolia... is it really so hard to get their coins? I always thought it was among the easier countries to get a coin from (I have something like ten of these now, and I didn't even have to search much). Now Belarus, that's a hard one (I'm still searching for an affordable example).
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United States
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I havent found a Mongolian coin yet... hmm I will have to keep a look out.
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United States
1391 Posts |
Mongolian coins are difficult to come by in my area. I've never seen one. I'll probably have to buy some.
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United States
797 Posts |
Im currently up to 207 different countries that have issued circulating coins.
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Canada
2781 Posts |
number of "countries" should probably be better described as coin issuing "entities".
up to 233 (i never thought I would get past 150). my 250th will be my first gold coin
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 Pakistan
207 Posts |
Been 2 years, and I've still not hit 150. Instead of waiting for that, I figured I'd just post my latest acquisition, from a friendly russian trader (and here was prejudiced me generalising them all as scammers):   Highlights being the two coins from North Korea (wasn't expecting to be able to get them very soon) and the coin from Transnistria, a state so unrecognised, it messed up my coin coding system (that used ISO-3166). So now my collection (excluding those I keep to exchange) has 900 coins, 719 different types from 147 countries (whatever "countries" means :D). |
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United States
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that new zealand coin is pretty stinkin cool looking
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Sweden
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 Pretty unimpressive at just 18 countries, but I haven't entered all of my coins, even if it'd be satisfying looking at that map afterwards  Edited by X2an
05/02/2015 6:02 pm
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United States
1911 Posts |
Well now that I recently went through my dads old coins during his navy days I will want to try the map thing too! I think so far it is only 7 or 8 countries but will soon be more as my brother in law remembered he won an album of another Vet's world coins as a child at church and he is going to let me have them! No clue what there is in that album! :D
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Sweden
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After entering some more coins in my collection I reached 47 countries. And that's not all.
To copy this map I simply right-click the uimage and "Copy image link" and then use the forum's image linking feature.
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Pakistan
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The problem with that, apparently, is that it disappears after a while. In other news, finally hit 150! Wasn't expecting to get there so quick, but commemoratives from dependent states definitely helped! :D Latest acquisitions were from Cook Islands, Falkland Islands, Burundi and Mozambique. I'm too lazy to scan them currently, but here is an updated map:  My world conquest is almost complete! |
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Canada
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Congratulation Babar!
I have a hard time with colours (colour blind) but if I am reading this right mot of your coins come from United States of America, United Kingdom of Great Briton and Northern Ireland and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
I did one trade on Numista but if you need any modern Canadian shoot me a pm on here and I'll go on Numista.
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Pakistan
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I really didn't think of it, numista should offer a colourblind mode for the map colours. But that's right, Harmonica, and thanks! 67 from Pakistan (every non-PM coin issued), although numista includes the 12 British India coins in that portion of the map, raising it to 79, 77 coins from the UK, and 75 from the US.
I have 15 coins from Canada currently (have several years of the 1,5,10 and 25 cent coins), be nice to hit you up for a swap at some point just to have every denomination (outside of commemoratives).
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07/18/2015 04:12 am
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Turkey
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Hi Everyone, I am an OFEC and I almost filled the whole map.  But I am still hunting for 112 countries.  Edited by apeka
07/18/2015 05:06 am
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Sweden
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Heh. Looks like I too have reached 100 countries. I've got more European stuff, just too lazy to fill in SO MANY of them.  |
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