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Valued Member
Switzerland
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 wow, 215 coins |
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United States
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What a fun topic ! I might have to consciously start this too. I do seem to pick up anything nice from my birth year, 1952, and my Dad's was 1924, so that means a few of those as well.
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Belgium
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Using the 'Advanced search' engine in Numista, it's easy to quickly get a list of coins issued in any given year. For 1968, (not my birth year), I end up with 45 pages of coins. Narrowing down to silver only, that still makes 6 pages. Here's the link for that particular one: http://en.numista.com/catalogue/ind...t=&dg=&w=&g= |
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 United States
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Very interesting Gwyde. I did a search on Numista, and it turned up 89 pages of 441 coins. I am almost halfway there.  That's for circulating and non circulating. Drops to 377 for circulating only |
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United States
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I have looked through the report of the 441 coins. It gave me things to check on some varieties, but that site is not comprehensive. I found 9 countries and 22 coins that weren't listed.  |
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Canada
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Which countries? It's a collaborative website so you could add these. However, they don't care very much about varieties.
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United States
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From my Birth Year Set, missing countries on the Numista list:
Bahrain
Egypt
Iran
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Morocco
Spain
Syria
And missing coins from:
Albania
Nepal
I see the link at the bottom of the page "A coin doesn't exist in the catalog yet? Add it yourself!" and I am going to look and see what's involved
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Canada
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I think the problem is with the search function rather than the entire catalog. Searching for coins of one particular date does not work very well. Take a look at the list of countries.
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United States
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United States
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nalaberong,
I found the countries/coins I thought were missing.
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United States
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Bobby, I have been looking there, and it has tempted me to get an ebay account. |
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United States
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Picked up these at the recent local ANA show in Atlanta 1968 Austria 50 Groschen  1968 Denmark 2 Ore  1968 Denmark 5 Kroner  1968 Switzerland 5 Francs  1968 French 1 Franc  1968 Iran 10 Rials  1968 Kenya 1 Shilling  1968 New Zealand 10 Cents  1968 Singapore 20 Cents  And these I had, but forgot to make pictures  1968 New Zealand Mint Set  1968 Switzerland 1 Rappen  |
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United States
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Seeing as my year of birth is 1985, this sounds like an awesome idea. Never thought of it before. Heck, most coins should be dirt cheap in UNC for me!
Great idea. Thank you. I might have to start this now.
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United States
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I had bought the mint and proof sets for my birth year, but hadn't really thought beyond that until I bought a Lucky Penny from Ireland. That is what really inspired me to try for world coins. From 1968, I currently have 223 coins from 82 different countries. |
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United States
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These two arrived today, with others ordered. Thanks mmorgan22  1968 Colombia 50 Centavos  1968 Iceland 50 Kronur - 50th Anniversary of Sovereignty  |
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