Worldwide Type Coin Collectors

I am working on a collection of world type coins. I use the KM catalog number. I exclude Gold coins and most of the rare coins too because they are beyond my budget. Although I do stray into NCLT, notgeld, bank tokens and a bunch of other areas that slow me down.
As far as number coins coins go I have no clue. I can currently cataloging mine world coin collection and have around 600 and am about 1/3 the way through (no duplicates). I know some members here have much larger collections. I have a friend who has probably around 3000 unique coins from the 20th century. If someone has a check list it would be handy.

I hope this doesn't come across as insultingly obvious, but I find numista.com to be a great resource. Their advanced search and wish list criteria could be helpful in coming up with a list.

NCLT means Non-Circulating Legal Tender. These are essentially medals that have a face value on them. Gibraltar, Marshall Islands, Liberia, Cook Islands and a few others tend to flood the market with these "coins" made specifically for collectors.

I am generally not a fan of these, but I must admit I like the look of some of the silver proof ones. And I can't turn down silver if it's at a good price...

Theoretically, yes - some of what we classify as NCLT could be spent (some couldn't). But for one thing some are issued as silver bullion and therefore would be worth in melt than in face value - only the very foolish would try and spend it. For another thing shopkeepers wouldn't accept them as they don't recognize them. Hence the "non circulating" part of NCLT.

Strictly speaking there are £5 coins issued here in the UK - they are commemorative and are copper-Nickel. You can even pick one up for £5 if you are very lucky. But you try and spend in it a shop and you will not be able to. Some banks might be fussy about them as well. They "circulate" solely within the collectibles arena.

I've bought many bulk lots and try to save one of each type. Sometimes the differences between types can be so trifling that I'm not that concerned with saving both types.

As for checklists you can join the Numista site or Don's World Coin Gallery. They both have options for you to select which coins you have and which you want. Don's has just one checkbox for each type, whereas Numista lists every single year and mintmark available.

Once you enter your coins you can print out a summary or Numista allows you to export to an excel spreadsheet.

Don has a list of members with the most coins, with a few having greater than 10,000. And that site doesn't even list middle-ages, ancient, or many Oriental coins.

-wheatiefan

I forgot to mention that I also use Numista, it really is a great site.

EUROCOIN,

just curious where you are getting most of your new additions? I am just about to hit the 2,000 mark and finding bulk lots very very unproductive except for the odd upgrade. my regular dealer's bins dont get rotated very often so once picked they dont change much for a long time.

CCF:

I finished the letter "N" and I have 7764 coins. I'm almost through 70% of the catalog so I am re-forecasting a total of 12,000 to 15,000 20th century type coins. Probably more towards the lower end.

KK