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Valued Member
United States
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Is there a list somewhere, preferably in Xcel format, of all of the countries that you can collect coins from? I found a list at worldcoincollection.com, but I'd have to type it all out. Along with my impending fish collection, and another one I'm contemplating, I think I'd like to add to the foreign coins I already have and get a couple from every country. Nothing fancy, just a representative coin from each. Am I too ambitious? Do I need medication? Help! I'm caught up in this and can't get out!  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
 United States
114 Posts |
Easier said than done. I'm semi-retired and have nothing but time. I've been spinning my wheels for the last 6 months trying to find *something* that interests me. Now that I have, it's full speed ahead! Hey, I have 36 years of non-coin collecting to catch up on!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1454 Posts |
I'm not sure if someone has a list of all world coins. That would be quite an undertaking. I can give you a website that a person has made and it is an invaluable resource. I hope he can keep the site going because without it I would have to resort to buying a Krause catalog and they aren't cheap.
http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /
His name is Don and he is a really nice guy.
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Valued Member
United States
114 Posts |
Yes! That was the site I saw, not worldcoincollection.com. What I want is an Xcel listing of that drop down menu he has. If you promise me he's nice, I'll try emailing him and maybe he has it in that form.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
Maryhm,
A "one from every country" collection is great idea and good fun to collect. Foreign coins can be so very cheap to buy yet come from exotic places and have such a rich history.
There are existing coins from countries and coins from those that no longer exist as well as coins from countries that have changed their name.
For Example: Czechoslovakia, Chech Slovak Federal Republic, Czech Republic
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1327 Posts |
here is a list of counties in europe that I made and have neen check by some members here to make sure they were all there. I don't have it in excel. I am still working on the othere areas but here is europe you can put in excell farly easy hardest part would be going through and putting in Denomitations.
Europe
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Azores
Belgium
Bosnia-Herzegovina (ex Yugoslav state)
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czechosolvakia
Czech Republic (ex Czecholsovakia)
Croatia
Denmark
Estonia (ex USSR)
Finland
France
Germany (and German States)
Gibraltar
Guernsey (Channel Islands )
Great Britain (and English hammered)
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Latvia (ex USSR)
Lithuania (ex USSR)
Liechtenstein (between Austria and Switzerland)
Luxemburg
Macedonia (ex Yugoslavia)
Malta (Mediterranean island)
Moldova (ex USSR)
Montenegro (ex Yugoslavia)
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romana
Russia
Salzburg
San Marino
Serbia (ex Yugoslavia)
Slovenia
Slovakia (ex Czechoslovakia)
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland (and Swiss Cantons)
Turkey
Ukraine
Vatican City (and Papal States)
Yugoslavia
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Moderator
 Australia
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...and djluster's list is only Europe, and only (for the most part) "current" countries in Europe. For instance, prior to the formation of what we now call "Germany" in the 1870's, there were dozens, even hundreds, of tiny little independent countries there - many of which issued their own coinage. Much the same can also be said for most of Europe, if you go back far enough. India likewise. Places like Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Switzerland and China have extensive "provincial" series - feel free to count each state or province a separate coin-issuing "country" if you like. Keep going further back in time and the list of possible "countries" grows exponentially, although "country" starts to take on a much fuzzier meaning. If you go right back to ancients, there were thousands of city-states in the Greek and Roman world which issued coinage. Back then, issuing your own coinage was a "status symbol" - a city that made its own coins could consider itself important. Indeed, some cities have been lost completely, gone without trace except for a handful of coins that prove the city once existed somewhere. I'm primarily an OFEC (One From Every Country) collector, and I like to keep "country" as loosely defined as possible, just to keep things interesting. My current database has 599 coin-issuing entities listed; if you think it might be useful, send me an e-mail and I'll send it to you as a .txt file attachment, which can load straight into Excel. That number includes ancients, mediaevals and most provincials. I base my list of current world countries on the Britannica Book of the Year my dad buys each year. You can always use an online reference; I found this one on Wikipedia. Or you can watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics next year, and try to collect one coin from each country that marches out...  Of course, not all countries issue coins, though most do. The ancient "you're not a real country unless you make coins" attitude is still with us today. Some only issue "made for collector" coinage and use something else as everyday circulating currency (like paper money only, a "regional currency" in economic alliance with it's neighbours, or US money). 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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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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WOW! 599, I could use that list and I suspect other may also.
Perhaps you should post it in the forum for all to see.
I've tried to compile a list from the Krause book but get caught up with the different monetary reforms and changes in styles of government and never get through the book to produce the list.
Some countries are very hard to find.
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Moderator
Australia
16810 Posts |
I didn't want to flood the forum uninvited, particularly this thread. 600 lines is a lot of scrolling.  Still, if you think it would be useful, I could ask Forum Mom & Dad if they'd mind something like that. 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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Valued Member
United States
114 Posts |
Don at (131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed sent me his list. I have emailed him back requesting his permission to post it. Someone else emailed me and offered their list. So maybe between Don, Sap, and others we can compile a pretty comprehensive list. Sap, if you could email me your list, I'll compare it to Don's and see what we have. Like I said, all I have is time. :)
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Forum Dad
United States
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I didn't want to flood the forum uninvited, particularly this thread. 600 lines is a lot of scrolling.
Still, if you think it would be useful, I could ask Forum Mom & Dad if they'd mind something like that.
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Valued Member
United States
114 Posts |
FYI- I just put Don's list into a spreadsheet and he has 449 countries.
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
1205 Posts |
If there's no problem with it; why not sharing the spreadsheet?
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Moderator
Australia
16810 Posts |
I've just finished polishing my list for posting here. Got rid of a few duplicated entries and polished it up a little bit - it's now down to 591 "countries". I've also denoted which are ancient or predominately mediaeval, in case you want to cross those off. There are also a few "banknotes-only" countries in this list.
So here's my list of countries I have in my collection. Hope your scrolling finger is ready:
Aachen
Aargau
Abbasid Caliphate (Mediaeval)
Achaea (Crusader)
Achaean League (Ancient)
Acheh
Afghan States (Mediaeval)
Afghanistan
Ajman
Albania
Algeria
Amastris (Ancient)
Andorra
Anglo-Gallic (Mediaeval)
Angola - Portuguese
Anjouan
Annam
Antioch (Ancient)
Antioch (Crusader)
Arab-Sassanian (Mediaeval)
Aragon (Mediaeval)
Argentina
Armenia
Artuqids (Mediaeval)
Aruba
Ascalon (Ancient)
Ascension Island
Assam
Australia
Austria
Austrian Netherlands
Awadh
Axumite Empire (Ancient)
Azerbaijan
Azores
Bactrian Kingdoms (Ancient)
Baden-Durlach
Bahamas
Bahawalpur
Bahrain
Bahwalpur
Bangladesh
Banswara
Bantam
Barbados
Baroda
Basel
Batavian East Indies
Bavaria
Belarus
Belgian Congo
Belgian Congo-Ruanda-Urundi
Belgium
Belize
Bengal
Bengal-Farrukhabad
Berg & Cleve
Bermuda
Bern
Bharatpur
Bhutan
Biafra
Bohemia (Mediaeval)
Bohemia & Moravia
Bokhara
Bolivia
Bombay Presidency
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brandenburg
Brazil
Bremen
British Carib. Terr.
British Colonies
British Guiana
British Honduras
British North Borneo
British Virgin Is.
British West Africa
Brunei
Brunswick-Luneberg
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Buenos Aires
Bulgaria
Bundi
Burma
Burundi
Byzantine Empire
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Caracas
Carthage (Ancient)
Catalonia
Cattaro
Cayenne
Cayman Islands
Celtic Tribes
Central African Empire
Central African Republic
Central African States
Central American Republic
Ceylon
Chad
Chihuahua
Chile
China - Communist
China - Empire
China - Japanese Occ
China - Provincial
China - Republic
China - Taiwan
Chola Kingdom
Cilician Armenia
Cochin
Cocos-Keeling Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Confederate States
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo D.R.(Kinshasa)
Congo Free State
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Crete
Croatia
Cuba
Cunbaria (Ancient)
Curaçao
Cyprus
Cyprus (Crusader)
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
Dalmatia & Albania
Danish India
Danish West Indies
Danzig
Darmstadt
Datia
Delhi
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Dortmund
Durango
Dyrrhachium (Ancient)
East Africa
East Africa & Uganda
East Caribbean States
East Hopei
East Siberia
East Timor
Ebusus (Ancient)
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Elbing
Elymais (Ancient)
Emporiae (Ancient)
England (Mediaeval)
Equatorial African States
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Essequibo & Demerary
Estonia
Ethiopia
European Union - Austria
European Union - Belgium
European Union - France
European Union - Germany
European Union - Greece
European Union - Ireland
European Union - Italy
European Union - Luxembourg
European Union - Netherlands
European Union - Portugal
European Union - Spain
Euzkadi
Faeroe Islands
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
France - Vichy Etat
Frankfurt
Freiburg
French Afars & Issas
French Africa
French Cochin-China
French Colonies
French Equatl Africa
French Equatorial Africa
French Guiana
French India
French Indochina
French Oceania
French Polynesia
French Somaliland
French West Africa
French West Africa & Togo
Friesland
Further Austria
Gabon
Gambia
Gela (Ancient)
Geneva
Genoa (Mediaeval)
Georgia
German East Africa
German New Guinea
German Occupied East
Germany - East
Germany - Federal Rp
Germany - Reich
Ghana
Ghaznavids
Gibraltar
Gorizia
Granadine Confederation
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland
Groningen & Ommeland
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Gupta Empire
Guyana
Gwalior
Haiti
Hamburg
Hannover
Hawaii
Heidelberg
Helvetian Republic
Hepthalites (Ancient)
Herakleia Pontika (Ancient)
Hesse-Cassel
Holland
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Hutt River Province
Hyderabad
Iceland
India
India - early states (Ancient)
India Straits
Indo-Greek Kingdoms (Ancient)
Indo-Scythian Kingdom (Ancient)
Indonesia
Indore
Ionian Islands
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Isles de France & Bourbon
Israel
Italian Somaliland
Italy
JIM - Burma
JIM - Dutch Indies
JIM - Malaya
JIM - Oceania
JIM - Philippines
Jamaica
Jaora
Japan
Java
Jersey
Jerusalem (Crusader)
Jodhpur
Jordan
Judaea (Ancient)
Julich & Berg
Junagadh
Kabul
Kampuchea
Katanga
Kathmandu
Kazakstan
Kenya
Khmer Republic
Kiau Chau
Kiribati
Kishangarh
Korea
Korea - North
Korea - South
Krakow
Kuchawan
Kushan Empire (Ancient)
Kushano-Sassanian (Ancient)
Kutch
Kuwait
La Rioja
Lahej
Laos
Lastigi (Ancient)
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Liegnitz-Brieg
Lithuania
Loano
Lombardy-Venetia
Lower Canada
Lucca (Mediaeval)
Lundy
Luxembourg
Luzern
Macau
Macedonia
Macedonian Empire (Ancient)
Madagascar
Madeira Islands
Madras Presidency
Majapahit Empire (Mediaeval)
Majorca
Malacca
Malawi
Malaya
Malaya & British Borneo
Malaysia
Maldive Islands
Mali
Malta
Malta - Knights of St.John
Manchukuo
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Massa-Carrara
Massachusetts
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mauryan Empire (Ancient)
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Meng Chiang
Mewar
Mexico
Mexico - Spanish
Miletus (Ancient)
Moldavia & Wallachia
Moldova
Mombasa
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Mughal Empire
Mulwa
Munster Cathedral
Muscat & Oman
Myanmar
Mysore
Nabatean Kingdom (Ancient)
Namibia
Nassau
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands India
Netherlands Indies
Netherlands New Guinea
Neuchatel
New Brunswick
New Caledonia
New Granada
New Guinea
New Hebrides
New South Wales
New Zealand
Newfoundland
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Nigeria-British West Africa
Niue
Northumbria (Mediaeval)
Norway
Nova Scotia
Oaxaca
Obulco (Ancient)
Oldenburg
Oman
Ostrogoths (Ancient)
Overyssel
Pakistan
Palestine
Panama
Papal States
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Parma
Parthia (Ancient)
Penang
Persian Empire (Ancient)
Peru
Peru - Spanish
Phanagoreia (Ancient)
Philippines
Philippines - Guerrilla
Pitcairn Island
Poland
Poland - Kingdom
Poland - Regency
Portugal
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese India
Prince Edward Island
Prussia
Prussia - Polish Regions
Ptolemaic Kingdom (Ancient)
Pudukkotai
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Qatar & Dubai
Queensland
Ras Al Khaima
Ratlam
Regensburg
Reggio
Reunion
Rhegion (Ancient)
Rhodes (Ancient)
Rhodesia
Rhodesia & Nyasaland
Riga
Rio de la Plata
Roman Republic
Romania
Rome (Ancient)
Rome - Anglo-Gallic Empire (Ancient)
Rome - Greek Imp. (Ancient)
Rome - Palmyra (Ancient)
Russia
Rwanda
Rwanda-Burundi
Saarbrucken
Saarland
Saint Gall
Saint Helena
Saint Helena-Ascension
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Saint Thomas & Prince
Salzburg
San Marino
Sarawak
Sardinia-Piedmont
Sassanian Empire (Ancient)
Saudi Arabia
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Weimar
Saxony
Schaumberg-Lippe
Schleswig-Holstein
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Schwyz
Scotland
Seiyun & Tarim
Seleucid Kingdom (Ancient)
Selinus (Ancient)
Seljuqs of Rum
Serbia
Serbia (Mediaeval)
Seychelles
Sharjah
Siberia
Sicily
Siena (Mediaeval)
Sierra Leone
Sikh Empire
Sind
Singapore
Slavonia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Solothurn
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
South Arabia
South Australia
Southern Rhodesia
Spain
Spitzbergen
Sri Lanka
Straits Settlements
Sudan
Sumatra
Sunga Empire (Ancient)
Surinam
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syracuse (Ancient)
Syria
Tabaristan (Mediaeval)
Taiwan - Japanese
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tasmania
Tatarstan
Texas
Thailand
Thrace (Ancient)
Tibet
Ticino
Timurids (Mediaeval)
Togo
Tonga
Tonk
Tonkin
Transdniestria
Transvaal - Z.A.R.
Travancore
Trebizond (Mediaeval)
Trieste
Trinidad & Tobago
Tripura
Tristan da Cunha
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkey - Ottoman
Turkmenistan
Turks & Caicos Is.
Tuscany
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Umayyad Caliphate (Mediaeval)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Arab Emirates
United States
Upper Canada
Uruguay
Utrecht
Uzbekistan
Valence (Bishopric) (Mediaeval)
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Vaud
Venezuela
Venice
Victoria
Vienne (Bishopric) (Mediaeval)
Vietnam - Communist
Vietnam - South
Virginia
West African States
West Irian
Western Australia
Western Kshatrapas (Mediaeval)
Western Sahara
Western Samoa
Windward Islands(Fr)
Wurttemberg
Wurzburg
Yemen - Kingdom
Yemen Arab Republic
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zeeland
Zimbabwe
Zurich
Zutphen
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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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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
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Thanks Sap, I've already pasted it on an Excel sheet, It will take me some time to check the ones I have coins of.
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Posted 02/04/2007 8:12 pm
