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Australia
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I am also doing an 'OFEC'.
One From Each Century, (and perhaps Culture?); 26 coin in all to begin with.
A statement in the development of World numismatics, from the beginning. I will probably expand it to about 100 coins, to include most of the World's major cultures. That will be five pages, in a 2x2 album.
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09/18/2014 9:04 pm
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 Canada
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I've thought about doing something similar but could never choose just one (hard enough to pick a single to represent a country)
I'd love to see your selections sel.
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United States
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Great collection but a few questions:
1: Do you put the coins in some sort of album or are you using 2x2 and then put them into a album of some sort?
2: Can't tell exactly from the pictures are all these coins the same size of like a half dollar, quarter, dime in size?
3: Any precious metals in any of the coins or are they all base metals like the use circulating coins.
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Canada
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the coins are in 2x2s then in 20 pocket pages / binder
coins vary in size from 7-8mm up to crown sizes (30+ mm) and everything in between (once I hit 300 I will probably catalog them a bit better to include all the details)
there are many silver coins, but nothing gold - although something tells me that #300 will be precious in more ways than one!
my preference seems to be (in no particular order)
(1) as old as possible
(2) denomination of 50
(3) silver
(4) year 1969 (birth year)
above all else I must like the design / eye appeal. I go for circulated coins over MS simply because I like the character of coins with mileage (not to mention that even mid grade versions of the last 25 can get pretty pricey)
I will need some upgrades as there are a few dud coins in the mix, but once "done" I will likely order a softcover coffee table book from photobucket (or similar) so that I can display my coins without actually having them on display.
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09/18/2014 11:47 pm
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I've thought about doing something similar but could never choose just one (hard enough to pick a single to represent a country) I know what you mean. I call my project ALOFEC ( At Least One From Each Country).  |
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Canada
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Well I showed this thread to my wife , she collects the dark side and is up to 244, All I heard was 'where'd he get that' , 'I don't have that one' , 'I've got that' ; so my ? is , did you get them from ebay or are you keeping it a secret ? because some of those are hard to find. Nice collection.  |
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United States
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This coin is mostly found very worn, but it contains wonderfully intricate detail that make it worthwhile to hunt for a well preserved specimen such as this one.
The woman on the coin is a Créole from Martinique. She is wearing a fancy variety of the traditional dress of the island, a madras. The head garb is known in créole as a tèt anlè (tête en l'air) or head in the sky (head upright). The thingy sticking out is part of the knot, binding the cloth together on the forehead. The other part is hidden behind the head.
The engraver of this coin is Alfred Borrel. I was curious so I went checking. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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I call my project ALOFEC (At Least One From Each Country). How about "ALOFECTIOW" (At Least One From Every Country That Is Or Was)  I have made a list of countries but every now and that I have to add to it when I learn about another country that isn't on my list. Would you mind posting a copy of your country list so I can see what I'm missing? Thanks! |
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Canada
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mschilling, I have only 2 local coin shops (one is closed on my regular days off and the other I refuse to buy from) so almost all came from online (primarily ebay) or trades with members here. I was working on a world type set (started by buying 5 and 10 pound lots and other larger bulk collections) & I was up to about 3600 coins in my "at least one from each country" before it got difficult to find new entries (from bulk lots). it was then that I decided to trim it down to something more manageable. I think I was around 175 countries or so when I sold off everything (except for one example from each country) & I used the money to get the next 50 countries or so. from 175-225 I was buying smaller lots (10-20 coins at a time) and picking the one that I needed. I would sell off the rest and in the end the coin I kept would often cost me nothing. 225 - 275 and up cost me around $5-$10 each, 275 - 290 probably double that, 290-300 = I hope my wife never finds out ! 300 will be the cap (then again I told myself that at 250 and then again at 275...) |
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That is a nice collection.
Since you are pushing 300 and it is an amazing feat, will you look back and share with us either your top 3 favorite coins, or the 3 coins that mean the most to you.
I think it would be neat to hear a story or two about getting to 300.
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Canada
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I have too much trouble picking a single coin to represent a single country, to pick 3 from those just isn't possible ! I'm a sucker for anything old and well used, you can almost feel the footsteps that these coins have taken:    I also fall for countries with unique histories, Lundy... this guy bought the island, proclaimed himself king then was promptly prosecuted for issuing his own currency  or Crete, only an independent state from 1898-1908  Columbia, Leper colony, I guess no one wanted to share coins with these poor people  or that are kind of obscure or at least not well known    I also love coins that aren't round:    I guess their all my children , can't pick a favorite ! Edited by Wade
09/19/2014 10:26 pm
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Canada
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Wade, that is the same way we do it, except we do NOT have any coin shops, unless you count a second hand shop who has very high prices. example - new circulation quarter (the ones with colour in them) puts them in a 2x2 and asks $3.00 I'm not an ebay buyer unless it's a CCF member. |
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Russian Federation
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Over here in Russia, we have a weekly (IIRC) numismatic magazine that has some interesting foreign coins (and occasionally paper money) in each issue (2-3 per issue, including the paper money); there had been about 130 issues by now, and they try not to duplicate the countries involved too much - they go more for "exotic" than anything else, really. A relative of mine had been buying these issues for me ever since they came out a few years back; I suspect by now there must be well over 100 countries in that part alone Ignoring that part of my collection, well I once tried to count what exactly I have and came up with 140 countries or so, but that was so long ago it probably changed significantly. A lot depends on what counts as a separate country (e.g. I consider the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as its own, short-lived, country). |
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Canada
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A lot depends on what counts as a separate country agreed, in the beginning I was using numista.com as my guide but they started arbitrarily changing what counted and what didn't for a country. now I add (based loosely on numista or charlton) what I feel represents a nation. major political changes often mean a new "country". ie, german empire, Wiemar republic, 3rd reich, east/west germany - all counts as as its own countries but only one state from the many german states counts - (not all of them just to fluff numbers) there is always going to be some grey area, some might consider Russia, Soviet Union, and now modern Russia as 3 separate "coin issuing entities" while others would count it as one (similar to germany). I am considering adding one to Japan as I feel there is a huge difference bewteen Feudal Japan & modern Japan (post WWII). again, to each their own, there is no hard list (would be easier if there was!) |
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