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Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 10:59 am Does anyone know of an online site that has a current list of all F.A.O coins issued? I'm flipping through my Krause catalog and manually making a list but it's a tedious task. Thanks, Ken Report this Post to the Staff

snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 11:42 am If you go to Numismaster and search the world FAO you get 553 hits. I know this is not comprehensive since Krause has not cataloged several FAO coins and some FAO coins are not recognized by the FAO. Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 12:06 pm Thanks Snowman Report this Post to the Staff
atlashealth Pillar of the Community United States 1691 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 2:26 pm What are FAO coins? Report this Post to the Staff
chrycopaul Pillar of the Community Canada 1106 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 2:39 pm quote: What are FAO coins? The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations (FAO) Report this Post to the Staff
RenaL Pillar Of The Community Turkey 1205 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 3:35 pm FAO coins are coins commemorating the special events of the organisation. I can suggest one other way to make your own list. You can use (131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed , there's a section to seacrh by theme, subject.http://www.(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /subjects.html The owner of the webpage hasn't actually seperated the subjects, but listed all coins on a single page. If you use Ctrl+F or F3 Search on thet page you can locate every FAO coin he has. A bit time consuming, but I think this is much faster than going through the actual Krause catalogue. Report this Post to the Staff
RenaL Pillar Of The Community Turkey 1205 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 4:04 pm OR,, try this one; http://fao-coins.info/ I thought you would have Google'd it :) Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 5:02 pm Thanks RenaL, I did google the topic and had the last link but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. But the World Goin Gallery link was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Report this Post to the Staff
RenaL Pillar Of The Community Turkey 1205 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 6:41 pm On the fao-coins.info go to FAO albums, they have a list by date with all the KM nNumbers and country names etc That may be a faster solution Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/19/2008 7:33 pm That was my first try but the albums were missing coins and stopped at the mid 80's. That's when I ended up opening the old Krause book but snowman pointed out the shortcomings there also. Now I'm using all 3 references and I'll refine it from there. Luckily, I'm very good with text sorting in excel so it's not that difficult to use features like copy, paste, text to columns, and concatenate. Report this Post to the Staff
RenaL Pillar Of The Community Turkey 1205 Posts	Posted 01/20/2008 5:23 pm Hope you can come up with a complete list. When you search the official FAO page https://www.fao.org for the word coin, it gets a https://coin.fao.org that asks for a username and a p/w. I have no idea how one gets a username, but you may try to dig deeper. Once you are done with the list would you consider to share it on the net? Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/20/2008 8:22 pm Absolutely, that was my intention Report this Post to the Staff
Angielczyk Valued Member Israel 423 Posts	Posted 01/21/2008 05:59 am I am currently responsible for the FAO coin programme at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (At least for the next week as I am about to retire). I have a complete list of FAO coins issued on CD Rom since at one time we were going to open an online shop. However this did not materialize. The list is in the form of small GIF pictures (65 bytes)of each of the coins. If somebody can tell me how to upload these in bulk (there are about 700 coins) I will be happy to do so. Most of the earlier coins are no longer in stock but quuite a number of the later issues are available in retail and wholesale quantities. Harold Report this Post to the Staff
Angielczyk Valued Member Israel 423 Posts	Posted 01/21/2008 07:17 am I have managed to put them up on our FTP site. Here is the linkftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/GI/Data/Giii/FAOCoins/ Report this Post to the Staff
Angielczyk Valued Member Israel 423 Posts	Posted 01/21/2008 08:29 am Renal The site that you looked at https://coin.fao.org is an FAO COuntry INformation system site and has nothing to do with coins Report this Post to the Staff
Ken_3567 Pillar of the Community United States 651 Posts	Posted 01/21/2008 12:32 pm Harold, Wow, that's impressive! I've already downloaded the files and dropped the filenames into a text list. Hopefully I will parse out the text into a usable list when I have some down time and add the KM#s. You just cut my work way down and to get images to boot is sweetness! quote: At least for the next week as I am about to retire CONGRATS on your retirement! I thinks its very cool that you work for the U.N. and sounds like a career to be pround of. Regards, Ken Report this Post to the Staff
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