List Of All Countries

Lest we forget Erik Mccrea's website:

Links To Micro-National and Fantasy Coins
http://www.geocities.com/erik_mccrea/linksA1.html

The list of micronations and fantasy coins is only for the most hopeless cases of numismania.

Here's something that currently holds my fascination:

State of Sabotage currency
http://www.sabotage.at/sos/news/coins_en.php

great list, I don't know if anyone has time or hte ablity to break these all up into 7 or 8 regions that why for the ones of use who collect buy region not everyone can put them in the prober space. I would do it but I am not that good with knowing were all of the contries are. I think that would make this the ultmite list if it was broken down both ways. But thank you for the file. that it a lot of coins to get.lol

I am not sure if this is right but I have mine in 8 different albums,
Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, South Pacific, North America,Central America & Caribbean, South America that is how I have mine divided don't know if it is right or if anyone else divide them like this but make it easiest for me to look at, Plus as I work on them I feel like I am getting somewhere when I get a album or region close to done. So that is what I mean by regions

I would love to see a Sticky or a permanet thread to this list on the forum

I am indeed talking about the Krause catalog. Amazon.com is selling the 34th edition 1901-2000 for $35.00 right now. In my opinion it is money well spent. You can also find the 19th edition 1801-1900 there used for about $25.00.

The Cabinda coins are interesting because they are not officially recognized by the Bank of Cabinda (a former Portuguese colony currently under the control of Angola). I'm not sure if that technically makes them micro-nation coinage or fantasy coinage. Regardless, they are some mighty nice looking fish coins.

"Micro-nation coinage" would be coinage in the name of a country (normally self-proclaimed to be independent) which lacks diplomatic recognition. Places like Hutt River Province (in Western Australia) and Sealand (off the coast of Britain) would fall under this category. Somaliland (northern Somalia) and Transnistria (eastern Moldova) are fully-fledged countries, with their own parliament, army, taxpayers etc - all they lack is international recognition.

"Fantasy coinage" would be coinage in the name of a country that was not officially authorised by the government of that country. The "Edward VIII pattern crowns" are an excellent example of fantasy coinage.

Let me give an example, to distinguish them. If I were to make a coin of my own, in the name of the "Empire of Sapyxica", that would be micro-national coinage - Sapyxica exists nowhere except in my head. If, however, I were to make an otherwise identical coin in the name of the "United States of America", that would be a fantasy coin since, as far as I am aware, I'm not actually authorized by the US government to make such coins.

The distinction gets blurred when the "authorizing" government is itself a micronation. Take the plethora of Hutt River Province "coins" issued in the 1990's - most weren't actually authorized by Prince Leonard over in W.A., so they're both fantasy coinage and micronation coinage.

The Cabinda coins are of questionable provenance. The rebels of Cabinda have claimed they are fakes from China.
The Hutt River Province coins, however, are legal tender in the Principality of Hutt River, as was reported in last month's issue of World Coin News by Mel Wacks.