World Coin Collection - Country Checklist?

en.numista.com

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pays.php

The later is a list of countries in the catalog.
Based in Europe, this group is a trading exchange.
But I find it very useful with lots of information.
Pitcairn Islands - 29
Tonga - 71
Cook Islands - 147
Obscure enough for you?


There is also a French version.

And if you want to go completely overboard you could join the everycountry Yahoo group. They have a master file that contains a listing of every country and governmental change that has issued coins since about 1400. It is about 7500 lines long.

They also have listings for just the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and one for just the 20th and 21st.

These lists also list the issues for each governmental overthrow plus NCLT and token issues ets, but the lists are color coded for each kind (NCLT, token etc) so you can take the list and just start deleting any lines that you don't wish to include.

Frankly though I think Sap's lists from the other thread would make a better starting point for a beginner. About 2/3 to 3/4 of the countries in Sap's list will be fairly easy and cheap to obtain most of the rest will be a little tougher, but most will not be that costly. A few will require you to lay out some money but still probably not enough to stop you. I would also suggest buying copies of the Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins. Bothe the 20th and 21st century books. Look for used copies a few years old. They will help you identify your coins and show you what else is available. Prices don't change that much so an older book works just fine. (Only problem is with precious metal issues since it can be hard sometimes to determine what the spot prices were when the book was compiled. Obviously is silver is much higher now the prices shown for common silver coins in the book will be too low.)

Another good reason for having the books is once you get close to the end of your one per country quest the next obvious goal might to to pick a country that interests you and start working on a type set from that country.

Thanks, Dave! I guess I was using the wrong search terms when looking for an existing topic.

Sap's list on that other thread is a great start.

Welcome to the OfEC world! It is an addiction! I started my OfEC collection about 2 years ago. I began using the list that is in the front a Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000. I was chugging along pretty well. I than read on coincommunity that people had been using this website called numista.com. Numista has proven to be very helpful, though they do not have all coins listed. They offer a nice large list of countries. I have found that every OfEC collector has a different list. Some only got with countries that have a mint, some collect coins from any and all countries (ME!), some have sub collections of OfEC i.e. one from every country involved in WWI, one from every country that was a country in 1900, one from every country that they have ever been to, etc. The neat thing about this type of collection is that you can make it what you would like. I have had more fun collecting world coins and than I ever thought I could. there is just so many different designs, denominations, history, etc. I would be happy to share any info with you to help you get started. According to numista, I am at 263 different countries as of today. So much fun! I also have collections within my OfEC collection. I collect animal subject coins. Happy hunting.

numista is not perfect, but neither is the CCF.
(We are just EXCELLENT!)
Use it if it helps you, or ignore it if is not.
OfEC: so much fun to be had for relatively little money.

Note: members of numista are invited to submit coins which are
missing from the catalog.

This thread https://goccf.com/t/161525 is pretty awesome to follow as well.

Given the disagreement over the definiton of "country" and whether to include them in a definitive, list or not, there isn't really a pre-made album for OFEC - or rather, there have at various times been attempts to do so. The problem is, such albums become outdated surprisingly quickly as new countries appear, old ones get assimilated and others change names. Last year someone posted one such old album over on the CU W&AC forum; the album itself can be dated to "early 1948", based purely on which countries it includes, and which it does not.

I keep my OFEC coins in 2x2s, in albums, alphabetically. I always try to leave plenty of expansion room in between countries, so I don't have to repaginate an entire album whenever I get a new country.


They stopped going back at 1400? Quitters.

Let me know when they get around to including every single ancient Greek coin-issuing city-state, and I'll be impressed.