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Norway
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Saarland coins are pretty nice thank you very much. Not particularly similar to coins of any other place either. Agreed on nice and being uncommon, but I hate to break the news that they are identical in weight, size, material and value (at the time) to the French franc coins with the same denominations at the time. So, I'd call them pretty similar to those. |
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Norway
510 Posts |
Depends on definitions. Some like to get coins from the same country after major changes, so for example from Norway you'd need one coin from when we were in union with Denmark, one from when we were in union with Sweden, one from when we were occupied during WW2 and one from independent Norway. Myself I only go for one (even though in the case of Norway I have all alternatives). On last count I have 189 currently existing and UN-recognized countries, 43 existing areas not countries (like Greenland, Jersey, Somaliland etc) 16 disappeared countries (Soviet Union, DDR, Scotland, Yugoslavia etc) and 216 disappeared areas (mainly German states like Bavaria, Prussia etc, Swiss cantons like Basel, Bern, Dutch states like Zeeland etc). The classification is often uncertain. Many might as well be a disappeared country as a disappeared state/area. But I'm not too scientific about it, main thing is to increase the total, which currently stands at 480. Edited by Litotes
06/09/2016 11:13 am
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Israel
84 Posts |
This is a great discussion. Over years I created a list of 276 Main countries and 1048 Old countries. I list countries by rulers, german and italian states, etc.. I have collected till now 268 of 276 and 324 of 1048. African countries and Asian changed alot making it so hard to follow. Many didn't have coins, but I listed them anyway. England has different periods of times. The hardest coins are the oldest. I listed some countries controlled by others and Islands has well.
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Canada
2781 Posts |
Sap posted the list below on a previous thread: I am avoiding NCLT only & fantasy issues, as well as duplicates "states" from Europe (ie only 1 entry for German states, Italian states etc). My current OFEC is at 300, with 2 that need to be replaced due to being NCLT or fantasy Quote:
COIN-ISSUING COUNTRIES: 208
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra 1
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon 2
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic 2
Chad 2
Chile
China
Cocos(Keeling) Islands 1
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the 2
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea 2
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands 2
Fiji
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Gabon 2
Gambia, The
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland 2
Guadelupe 2
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands 1
Martinique 2
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro 2
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles 3
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Reunion 2
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) 1,5
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2
Samoa
SanMarino
São Tome and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Somaliland 5
South Africa
Spain
Spitzbergen/Svalbard
SriLanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan 5
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau 1
Tonga
Transnistria 5
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands 2
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
MONETARY UNIONS: 3
Central African States
East Caribbbean States
West African States
20th CENTURY COIN-ISSUING COUNTRIES AND MONETARY UNIONS NO LONGER EXISTING: 25
Biafra
British North Borneo
Czechoslovakia
Danzig
East Africa
East Germany
French IndoChina
Katanga
Kiau Chau
Malaya
Manchukuo
New Guinea / German New Guinea
Newfoundland
Palestine Mandate
Portuguese India
Qatar and Dubai
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Saarland
Sarawak
South Vietnam
Tannu Tuva
Tibet
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Yemen, Democratic Republic of
Yugoslavia
NCLT-ONLY-ISSUING and NON-COIN-ISSUING COUNTRIES: 27
Abkhazia 4
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Belarus
Benin
Burkina Faso 4
Côte d'Ivoire
Dominica
Grenada
Kosovo 4
Micronesia, Federated States of 4
Montserrat
Nagorno-Karabakh 4
Nauru 4
Niger
Niue
Northern Cyprus 4
Palau
Palestine (West Bank/Gaza) 4
Pitcairn Islands
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Senegal
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Ossetia 4
South Sudan 4
Footnotes:
1 - Country has not issued circulating coins, but has issued some cheap NCLT.
2 - Country used to issue circulating coins sometime in the 20th century but no longer does so.
3 - The Netherlands Antilles federation was officially disbanded in 2010. Coinage of the Netherlands Antilles still circulates in two of the former member-states and will continue to do so until those states (Curacao and Sint Maarten) issue a replacement currency union currency, sometime later this year (2013).
4 - Country has never issued any official legal tender coinage. Any and all "coins" issued in their name are unofficial fantasies.
5 - Although an "unrecognized" country, coinage in their name actually circulates (or circulated) on the ground. |
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 United States
5828 Posts |
I would add the Confederate States of America to that list, while it may be painstakingly difficult to track down and actualy buy an affordable example of the Confederate half dollar or cent, the confederates did strike 1861 O half dollars which can be bought online for around $25. Just my Two Cents. |
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United Kingdom
367 Posts |
And where is Zanzibar on the list ;) with its 20 century coinage ?
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United Kingdom
36 Posts |
Nobody ever mentioned Madeira & the Azores in the lists of semi- autonomous states just like jersey, guernesey, IOM & Gib.
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Russian Federation
5174 Posts |
Hey, I wanted to post that list!  Actually, it's a bit outdated (having been originally posted in August 2013) - in particular, South Sudan has circulating coins now, and Belarus apparently will in a few weeks - and was never intended to be complete regarding the 20th century. I'm rather impressed at an attempt of a full 20th century OFEC - geraltttt82, you said you're only missing two or three countries, which ones they are? (Incidentally, are you counting the assorted German states separately? Many of them issued large silver coins in their name up to the 1910s.) I know I'll probably never get a coin from Tannu Tuva, say (it's a very interesting place, but their coins are just too rare). Then again, I said the same thing about Saarland, or Moldavia and Wallachia... My official Numista collection has 161 countries in it right now (plus half a dozen assorted German states that Numista groups together). Many big parts of my collection are yet to be entered into Numista, though, and the actual figure is probably somewhere around 220 (if not higher). I hope to be able to enter the 300 country club some day, but with my sheer aversion to $5+ coins, that doesn't seem likely. |
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United Kingdom
367 Posts |
No, I counting German States like 1 (as Empire), but of course I have few XX century German States (13 / 25) 1. Anhalt Dessau 2. Baden 3. Bavaria 4. Bremen 5. Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 6. Hamburg 7. Hesse-Darmstad 8. Prussia 9. Saxony-Albertine 10. Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 11. Schleswig-Holstein 12. Schwarzburg-Sondershuasen 13. Wurttemberg And about missing coins ;) I still need: Nagorno Karabach - for example:  Tajikistan - medallic issue:  and one from Zanzibar:  |
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 United States
513 Posts |
OK, maybe I am in better shape than I thought. Relative to the list posted above by Wade, I lack 19/208 in the Coin-Issuing Country category, lack 6/25 in the "no longer existing" category, and lack 22/27 {sheepish grin} in the NCLT category. Some of those "missing" I may actually "have," just annotated differently in my inventory.
I have an entry marked as "have" in my inventory for a coin from Saharawi that doesn't appear on the above list or the Numista list. Is that just Western Sahara (not near my collection at the moment to check)? But I have a separate "have" entry for Western Sahara. I also have a coin I annotated from Saint Thomas and Prince that doesn't appear in either list. Did I simply do a terminology error?
Looks like I oughta set up a Numista account, eh {grin}
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France
1591 Posts |
Spain . but that's more than one country in Krause ;) (it includes Mexico, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Santo domingo, etc .)
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United Kingdom
367 Posts |
Yes, Saharawi is Western Sahara.
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United States
3343 Posts |
I'd recommend collecting a limited number of countries you like. I like French coins, especially 2F silver from 1800-1850. Just getting examples of these from all the branch mints is a lifetime project. I have some interest in Russia, Netherlands, UK and the Spanish colonials too, but not a focused interest.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Norway
510 Posts |
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I have an entry marked as "have" in my inventory for a coin from Saharawi that doesn't appear on the above list or the Numista list. Is that just Western Sahara (not near my collection at the moment to check)? But I have a separate "have" entry for Western Sahara. I also have a coin I annotated from Saint Thomas and Prince that doesn't appear in either list. Did I simply do a terminology error? Saint Thomas and Prince is the same place as São Tome & Principe, which is a present-day country. Edited by Litotes
06/10/2016 4:01 pm
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United States
513 Posts |
Ah, tusen takk. A terminology thing on my end. Looks like I can check off the São Tome & Principe slot {grin}
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