List

Yes I read that post, in it SAP has a link to a list but it does not work any more, at lest for me.

Man I got 448 countries , could have missed a couple counting, wow

Thanks John1

My country count is currently at 734. And I consider myself as nowhere near owning "one coin from every country".


That would be the number of countries that currently exist. The vast majority of "countries that have issued coins" no longer exist. The Roman Empire, for example, no longer exists. Prior to the Romans, every single Greek city-state considered itself a separate country and (if it could afford them) issued its own coins. There were thousands of them; I only own a couple dozen. In more modern times, the territory we now call "Germany" was, prior to 1871, divided up into hundreds of little tiny independent principalities, duchies and kingdoms, most of which issued their own coins. Several times in the past 2500 years, India has fragmented into dozens of warring coin-issuing states, only to be conquered and reunified again into a different empire.

If you throw in things like "unofficial" countries, provincial / civil war coinages and government changes, the number of possible coin-issuing countries can easily escalate into the tens of thousands.

There are 369 countries on en.numista.com and I have just 135 of them. But for example they count Yemen four times. one for the yemenite states, one for the socialist period, one for the nationalist period and one for the republic of yemen which exists now. but interesting they count kingdom of hungary, socialist hungary and republic of hungary as one country?!