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Valued Member
United Arab Emirates
283 Posts |
Hello fellow collectors, Throughout my journey in the OFEC (One From Every Country) I missed something. A list of all current countries that mint their own coins (which I think might be two hundred and something) I would really appreciate it if someone can provide me with it. A simple one basically with the names only, preferrably numbered. And ready to print. Thank you all!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
807 Posts |
Do you mean real coins, or would you be including territories which have had issues made in their name, possibly without official authorization? I mean, a "coin" inscribed for Pitcairn Island may exist, but does that really make it a coin-issuing country?
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Russian Federation
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For that matter, there are plenty of coin-issuing entities that aren't theoretically countries - ranging from highly autonomous areas to tribes to micronations to places that don't actually exist.
Vatican City, Cook Islands, Aruba, Greenland, Jersey, Pitcairn, Alderney, Palestine, Mesa Grande, Lundy, Seborga, Hutt River, Sealand, Redonda, Vilenjak, Winterfell. Coins for all of these "countries" (and many more) had been issued in the last several years (approximately five); this list is approximately sorted in order of diminishing similarity of the issuing and listed entity to an actual "country" (and note that even the starting entries are hardly countries - though any decent OFEC collector should get all of these at least up to Jersey, and probably up to Palestine).
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 Australia
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I also have to double-check your phrasing... Quote:
...countries that mint their own coins... Do you mean countries that actually own their own mint and issue their own coinage themselves, or do you mean "countries that have coinage issued in their name"? Many smaller countries do not have their own mint; other countries make their coinage for them. Some countries, such as Nauru and Liberia, even have coinage made for them by profiteering private mints in other countries, without the knowledge or consent of the country that allegedly issued the "coins". Other issues to consider in making your list: Do you only want countries that have issued circulation coins, or are NCLT (made-for-collectors-only) coins acceptable? Many countries, particularly those belonging to monetary federations, have never issued circulating coinage in their own name, though most of them have issued NCLT. You ask about "current countries". There are some countries and territories that used to issue their own coinage, but no longer do so - even though the country or territory still exists. Do you wish to include those? Martinique, for example, has not issued coins since 1922. As you can see, your question is simple, but the answer is not - which is probably why you haven't been able to find such a list so far. 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
United States
807 Posts |
I beg to point out that the Vatican City State is an internationally recognized sovereign state, on an equal footing with even the greatest nations, with ambassodors in many capitals, & is party to a number of international treaties. Under the Lateran Concordat, it is a member (along with San Marino) of a special currency union with the Italian Republic, & has coins struck at the Rome mint, to the same denominations & standards as those of Italy. This coinage was contemplated in terms as a circulation issue, but from the beginning has typically been snapped up by collectors as soon as it appeared.
And the only coins of Palestine I am familiar with are circulating pieces issued during its period as a British mandate. They are just as much "real" coins of a "real" country as any other mandatory or colonial piece - " Syrian, for example, or French Indochinese.
Edited by publius
08/04/2013 8:08 pm
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Valued Member
 United Arab Emirates
283 Posts |
Truly sorry for not being clear.
I just made my mind.
I just want a list of countries that have their own circulating coins, not necessarily their own mints.
Countries should exist now, I do not want countries that no longer exist.
Not necessarily countries, but places which have their own circulating coins and that are official and authorized.
Edited by Pheroow
08/04/2013 9:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
3831 Posts |
Have you tried this? http://gxseries.com/worldmoneylist.htmI've done a research on the current national banks / mints / printing firms etc. Not too sure if it really is what you are looking for. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Australia
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OK, I'm home, and have some spare time. I'll see what I can write up for you. First, I'll start off with the Wikipedia list of countries. Then I'll delete any that have never issued circulation coinage and/or have only ever issued expensive, hard-to-obtain NCLT. Some countries, such as Andorra, have issued cheap, easy-to-find NCLT, so I'll keep them on the list but mark them accordingly. Finally, I'll add in a few of the countries that issued circulating coins sometime during the 20th century but have since become extinct. I haven't included name-changes, form-of-government-changes, and state/provincial issues from places such as China, India, Germany, Spain and Mexico. So, here we go: 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 Tomé 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. 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
United Kingdom
2868 Posts |
Probably the Eurozone needs to be added to the "Unions" section.
And China really should be split into two - Peoples Republic and Republic (I know you said about the sub-divisions but...)
That's a great list - lots of effort needed.
Edited by Bacchus2
08/05/2013 08:06 am
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Russian Federation
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Sap: You apparently missed Belarus in the "cheap NCLT" list. That, or you don't think their NCLT is cheap enough  (I know its official issue price at the Bank of Belarus had lately fell down to well under $1 for many of the cupronickel coins, but I don't know how cheap they are at the foreign markets; in Russia, AFAICT, these coins appear to cost around $10.) And, even considering that you appear to be counting countries as "the same" even if it's hardly true, your list of "no longer existing" countries either should include Yugoslavia[1] or shouldn't include the USSR (or probably even both - you also apparently missed the United Arab Republic). Pheroow: Your definition as it stands is liable to include a bunch of places around the "Seborga" level of non-country-ness (where a place claims to be their own nation, and makes coins that are often mainly intended for collectors but do also circulate in the micronation itself). It also seems close to the idea of "local currency" (google it), which is essentially the same thing except without the micronational surroundings. Fortunately for OFEC collecting, local currency tends to be in banknote rather than coin form; the only coins of that sort I could think of are the Kelantanese dinars. The former, however, is reasonably common (pretty much every micronation of note mints their own coinage, and at least for Seborga, Hutt River and Christiania - very possibly many more - the main intent of such coinage was at least originally to circulate within the micronation itself). [1] Technically, one can argue for a continuity between the various forms of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia. It's quite a confusing continuity, however; and there's much more of a continuity between the USSR and modern-day Russia. The USSR issue, of course, is complicated by the existence of coins issued for the RSFSR in the 1920s; then again, there were apparently coins issued for Serbia in the 1940s as well. For the purposes of this discussion, I will ignore the national identification of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as it's another question entirely. |
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Russian Federation
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And Bacchus2:
Well, maybe. I suspect Sap's definition of "monetary union" was a union where all the involved countries' coins are entirely identical, not just equally legal tender or somesuch; the Eurozone countries certainly mint their own coinage, just in identical currency.
As for PRC and ROC, they're already in the list as China and Taiwan respectively.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1088 Posts |
You could also look at the country index of a current Krause Catalog. That would give you a good list as well.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
I just went to Google and typed in countries of the world that issue coins. Got an extensive list.
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Valued Member
United Arab Emirates
283 Posts |
Wow thanks all.
Sap that surely required great effort, and I really appreciate your work.
Thanks for everything this will truly come in handy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
807 Posts |
Under the UAR, Syria & Egypt issued completely different coins, so it isn't needed on a list of coin-issuing entities.
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Australia
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As you can see, Pheroow, compiling and publishing any such list immediately attracts plenty of opinions of those who would add or subtract places from the list.  Yes, the Eurozone and the UAR were both omitted from the list because neither union issued union-wide common currency; each member-state issued its own coinage. On the China-Taiwan question, I kept the names as they appeared in the Wikipedia list - even though in my own country list and in my coin albums, Taiwan is filed under "China - Taiwan". For "cheapness" of NCLT, I've generally based it on my own experience at attempting to buy one; around here, Belarussian coins aren't cheap. Also, if a country has issued small, base-metal, circulating-coin-like NCLT (such as the little FAO 1 centim for Andorra, or the pesetas from Western Sahara), I have included it. However, omission of Yugoslavia from the extinct-but-obtainable countries list was indeed accidental. I have edited the list accordingly. I suspect there may be numerous other candidates in this category which could also qualify. Indeed, I thought of two more to add as I was editing the list. 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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