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I (try) to only collect circulating coinage, so that takes care of some problems from non-entities. I do have some coins from Andorra and Nagorno-Karabakh, which I'm not sure if they really circulate in those areas or not.
They do not.
Andorra uses euros in everyday commerce, the
Andorran diner and the fractional centim coinage being purely for collectors and tourists. Unlike the other three euro-using mini-states, Andorra has not signed a treaty with the Eurozone allowing it to issue their own euro coinage. There is no fixed or official exchange rate between diners and euros. The tiny aluminium 1 centim coins look like cheap circulation issues, but they were made purely for sale to tourists and OFEC collectors.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed territory on the Asian side of the Caucasus, completely inside the borders of Azerbaijan but majority-inhabited by ethnic Armenians. Armenia and Azerbaijan were fighting over it even before the USSR formally broke up. The local population uses Armenian currency in everyday transactions; the
Nagorno-Karabakh dram is "legal tender" but has never been commonly in use. 1 Armenian dram is now worth 1/4 of a US cent and back in 2004 the rate was more like 1/8th of a cent, so if the coins and notes ever were intended for circulation, they certainly didn't circulate for very long.
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The UK section, for example, is disaggregated in the Banknote catalogues, while united in the coin catalogues.
That's because the currency itself is disaggregated (hey, I learned a new word today). Britain is in the unique position in the world today of being a country with a unified coinage but a divided banknote system.
The coinage has been struck in the name of the entire United Kingdom since the Act of Union in 1707 - even the coinages with specifically regional designs like the "English" and "Scottish" shillings and the 1 pound coins - but the banknotes have always only been at the member-country level - Bank of England notes, though widely accepted in Scotland, are not legal tender there, while Scottish banknotes are even less widely accepted in England. There are no such things as "British banknotes", in terms of notes being issued for and acceptable in the entire country.
I stick with "purely alphabetical" in both cases. I file British coins under "Great Britain", and British banknotes under "England", "Scotland" or "Northern Ireland".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 12/29/2011 3:17 pm
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