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geraltttt82 Valued Member United Kingdom 367 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 5:28 pm Few days ago I accidentally bought a coin which brings me almost to the end of full XX century OFEC colection Nagorno-Karabakh - 25 000 drams 1998, Ag So now I need only 2 x more countries ;) - I have 311 / 313 existing in XX century I bought it from http://gndm.pl/ so I hope, really really hope, this coin is not a fake from China (there are few on ebay) The last two is Zanzibar (cents from 1908) and Tajikistan 20 roubles 1999 - I wrote about it here: http://goccf.com/t/238891 Report this Post to the Staff

january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5176 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 6:19 pm I wanted to mention the Kyrgyzstan 20 tyjyn 1994 patterns, but apparently there's a legitimate 20th century Kyrgyzstan coin (another obscure silver issue), and you have one of those already. Anyway - incredible quest! It sounds like something I'd want to do myself if/when I ever end up having that kind of money... right now I only have 264 countries in my Numista collection, and many of them are not from the 20th century. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 6:49 pm I am on a different sort of OFEC project, but with more modest and easier to achieve goal: OFEC: One From Every Century, from the invention of coinage. 26 coins in all, each representative to the century in which it was minted. The collection may develop and expand, to include as many as 100 coins, because I may think about including One from Every Culture, over the 26 century period. A very basic statement of the development of coinage of the World, over the last 26 centuries. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5176 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 7:08 pm Quote: I am on a different sort of OFEC project, but with more modest and easier to achieve goal: OFEC: One From Every Century, from the invention of coinage. 26 coins in all, each representative to the century in which it was minted. I'm actually working on that one as well (thank you for inspiration!), but I'm having trouble finding any coins before the 3rd century BC that I could afford. (Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places?) Having recently bought a 8th century AD coin from Bukhar Khudat (pending more precise identification, but I'm fairly confident of the century), I now also finally have more than half of the Middle Ages period (still missing 7th, 10th, 11th and 14th centuries... and the best I have for 13th is this squashed nail). Report this Post to the Staff
oriole Pillar of the Community Canada 5246 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 7:19 pm @sel_691, I would be very interested to see your list of different Culture, and of course how you decide what is a distinct culture, as opposed to a distinct Country. In the OFEC group I used to belong to, everytime a country changed its government, that was a new line for the checklist. So, for example, Germany starting in 1900 would have: Empire Weimar Republic Third Reich Allied Occupation East Germany West Germany Unified Germany European Union Or something like this. Plus all the states that issued their own coinage. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 7:42 pm @ Oriole: Cultures in the broadest sense. Ancient Greek, Roman, Celtic, Byzantine, Indian, Chinese, Parthian, Sassanian, Islamic, South East Asian, medieval Western European, modern milled European, and machine struck World coinages. Some collectors are specialists. Perhaps my collecting approach could be termed 'generalist'. Report this Post to the Staff
oriole Pillar of the Community Canada 5246 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 8:41 pm @sel_691, an interesting way to do it, just dipping your toes in. Not a bad way to do it, especially in the ancients, which I have sort of been trying to do, but maybe just a bit less general. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5176 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 8:47 pm Wow, that's really generalist. I'd say that most people on CCF would hardly ever stray out of the "machine struck world coinage" category (with perhaps the occasional slip into "modern milled European"). I recently got myself a Yemenite pentagonal (1/8 riyal) - those must have been perhaps the last circulating coins that didn't fit in this category. Of course, even if they weren't, they're quite unique anyway. (My example is from 1949, and the type was made until 1961, but if I didn't know I would never have guessed it was 20th century.) Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 10:18 pm Fascinating coin from a region I had never heard of before! Just out of curiosity, what is your "cutoff" between a country to collect versus what you consider a fantasy or otherwise not worthy of collecting? I think we had a discussion on it before, and there are some interesting perspectives on what does and doesn't qualify. Report this Post to the Staff
Wade Pillar of the Community Canada 2781 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 10:55 pm Your coin is a fantasy issue, as Nagorno-Karabakh has never issued circulation coinage. It still has it's place in your OFEC if you are using numista as your guide. See list below, with full credit going to CCF member SAP for preparing it and sharing it on a previous OFEC thread. 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 Tome 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. Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 11:31 pm There's a lot missing though, even if we are only counting coin-issuing (mostly) autonomous entities of the 20th century. For example: Khorezm Soviet People's Republic that existed for a while before being absorbed into the USSR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kho...iet_Republic Hyderabad, one of the many self-governing Indian Princely States that existed right up until unification in 1947: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad_State The list goes on, of course but you get the picture. Things aren't exactly black and white in an OFEC set. Edited by Finn235 03/18/2017 12:03 am Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5176 Posts	Posted 03/17/2017 11:39 pm This list is a little bit out of date. South Sudan's circulation coins came out last year. Also, I'm pretty sure that at least some of the issues of Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh are official (as far as they can be for such unrecognized states), and there are apparently some reports that a few of the Nagorno-Karabakh coins might even have actually briefly circulated on their territory. OTOH, South Ossetia, (modern) Palestine, Kosovo and Northern Cyprus really didn't issue any official legal tender. Report this Post to the Staff
DL20K Pillar of the Community Poland 3201 Posts	Posted 03/18/2017 05:43 am ... and Belarus may now be moved from the NCLT-only category to the regular one. Report this Post to the Staff
geraltttt82 Valued Member United Kingdom 367 Posts	Posted 03/18/2017 06:02 am About my list: 1 AFGHANISTAN 2 AJMAN - U.A.E. 3 ALBANIA 4 ALDERNEY 5 ALGERIA 6 AMERICAN SAMOA 7 ANDORRA 8 ANGOLA 9 ANGUILLA 10 ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 11 ARGENTINA 12 ARMENIA 13 ARUBA 14ASCENSION ISLAND 15 AUSTRALIA 16 AUSTRIA 17 AZERBAIJAN 18 AZORES 19 BAHAMAS 20 BAHRAIN 21 BANGLADESH 22 BARBADOS 23 BELARUS 24 BELGIAN CONGO 25 BELGIUM 26 BELIZE 27 BENIN 28 BERMUDA 29 BHUTAN 30 BIAFRA 31 BOHEMIA & MORAVIA 32 BOLIVIA 33 BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA 34 BOTSWANA 35 BRAZIL 36 BRITISH HONDURAS 37 BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 38 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 39 BRITISH WEST AFRICA 40 BRUNEI 41 BULGARIA 42 BURUNDI 43 CAMBODIA 44 CAMEROON 45 CANADA 46 CAPE VERDE 47 CAYMAN ISLANDS 48 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 49 CENTRAL AFRICAN STATES 50 CENTRAL ASIA 51 CEYLON 52 CHAD 53 CHILE 54 China 55 China-JAPANESE PUPPET STATES 56 Chinese SOVIET REPUBLIC 57 China / Peoples Republic 58 China, REPUBLIC OF 59 TAIWAN 60 COLOMBIA 61 COMOROS 62 CONGO FREE STATE 63 CONGO REPUBLIC 64 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 65 COOK ISLANDS 66 COSTA RICA 67 CRETE 68 CROATIA 69 CUBA 70 CURACAO 71 CYPRUS 72 CZECH REPUBLIC 73 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 74 DAHOMEY 75 DANISH WEST INDIES 76 DANZIG 77 DENMARK 78 DJIBOUTI 79 DOMINICA 80 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 81 EAST AFRICA 82 EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES 83 ECUADOR 84 EGYPT 85 EL SALVADOR 86 EQUATORIAL AFRICAN STATES 87 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 88 ERITREA 89 ESTONIA 90 ETHIOPIA 91 FAEROE ISLANDS 92 FALKLAND ISLANDS 93 FIJI 94 FINLAND 95 FRANCE 96 FRENCH AFARS & ISSAS 97 FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA 98 FRENCH INDO-China 99 FRENCH OCEANIA 100 FRENCH POLYNESIA 101 FRENCH SOMALILAND 102 FRENCH WEST AFRICA 103 FUJAIRAH 104 GABON 105 GAMBIA 106 GEORGIA 107 GERMAN EAST AFRICA 108 GERMAN STATES 109 GERMANY - EMPIRE 110 WEIMAR REPUBLIC 111 THIRD REICH 112 GERMANY-FEDERAL REPUBLIC 113 GERMANY-DEMOCRATIC REP. 114 GHANA 115 GIBRALTAR 116 GREAT BRITAIN 117 GREECE 118 GREENLAND 119 GRENADA 120 GUADELOUPE 121 GUATEMALA 122 GUERNSEY 123 GUINEA 124 GUINEA-BISSAU 125 GUYANA 126 HAITI 127 HEJAZ 128 HONDURAS 129 HONG KONG 130 HUNGARY 131 ICELAND 132 INDIA-PRINCELY STATES 133 EUROPEAN INFLUENCES IN INDIA 134 INDIA - REPUBLIC 135 INDONESIA 136 IRAN 137 IRAQ 138 IRELAND REPUBLIC 139 ISLE OF MAN 140 ISRAEL 141 ITALIAN SOMALILAND 142 ITALY 143 IVORY COAST 144 JAMAICA 145 JAPAN 146 JERSEY 147 JORDAN 148 KATANGA 149 KAZAKHSTAN 150 KEELING COCOS 151 KENYA 152 KIAU CHAU 153 KIRIBATI 154 KOREA 155 KUWAIT 156 KYRGYZSTAN 157 LAO 158 LATVIA 159 LEBANON 160 LESOTHO 161 LIBERIA 162 LIBYA 163 LIECHTENSTEIN 164 LITHUANIA 165 LUXEMBOURG 166 MACAU 167 MACEDONIA 168 MADAGASCAR 169 MADEIRA 170 MALAWI 171 MALAY PENINSULA 172 MALAYA 173 MALAYA & BRITISH BORNEO 174 MALAYSIA 175 MALDIVE ISLANDS 176 MALI 177 MALTA 178 MARSHALL ISLANDS 179 MARTINIQUE 180 MAURITANIA 181 MAURITIUS 182 MEXICO 183 MEXICO-REVOLUTIONARY 184 MOLDOVA 185 MONACO 186 MONGOLIA 187 MONTENEGRO 188 MONTSERRAT 189 MOROCCO 190 MOZAMBIQUE 191 MUSCAT & OMAN 192 MYANMAR 193 NAGORNO-KARABAKH 194 NAMIBIA 195 NAURU 196 NEPAL 197 NETHERLANDS 198 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 199 NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES 200 NEW CALEDONIA 201 NEW GUINEA 202 NEW HEBRIDES 203 NEW ZEALAND 204 NICARAGUA 205 NIGER 206 NIGERIA 207 NIUE 208 NORWAY 209 OMAN 210 PAKISTAN 211 PALAU 212 PALESTINE 213 PANAMA 214 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 215 PARAGUAY 216 PERU 217 PHILIPPINES 218 PITCAIRN ISLANDS 219 POLAND 220 PORTUGAL 221 QATAR 222 QATAR & DUBAI 223 RAS AL-KHAIMAH 224 REUNION 225 RHODESIA 226 RHODESIA AND NYASALAND 227 ROMANIA 228 RUSSIA 229 RUSSIAN CAUCASIA 230 RWANDA 231 RWANDA-BURUNDI 232 SAARLAND 233 SAHARAWI ARAB D.R. 234 SAINT HELENA 235 SAINT H ELENA & ASCENSION 236 SAINT KITTS & NEVIS 237 SAINT LUCIA 238 ST.PIERRE & MIQUELON 239 SAINT THOMAS & PRINCE ISLAND 240 SAINT VINCENT 241 SAMOA 242 SAN MARINO 243 SARAWAK 244 SAUDI ARABIA 245 SENEGAL 246 SERBIA 247 SEYCHELLES 248 SHARJAH 249 SIERRA LEONE 250 SINGAPORE 251 SLOVAKIA 252 SLOVENIA 253 SOLOMON ISLANDS 254 SOMALIA 255 SOMALILAND 256 SOUTH AFRICA 257 SOUTH ARABIA 258 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH S ANDWICH ISLANDS 259 SOUTHERN RHODESIA 260 SPAIN 261 SPAIN CIVIL WAR 262 SPITZBERGEN 263 SRI (SHRI) LANKA 264 STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 265 SUDAN 266 SURINAME 267 SWAZILAND 268 SWEDEN 269 SWITZERLAND 270 SYRIA 271 TAJIKISTAN 272 TANNU TUVA 273 TANZANIA 274 TATARSTAN 275 THAILAND 276 TIBET 277 TIMOR 278 TOGO 279 TOKELAU 280 TONGA 281 TONKIN 282 TRANSNISTRIA 283 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 284 TRISTAN DA CUNHA 285 TUNISIA 286 TURKEY 287 TURKMENISTAN 288 TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS 289 TUVALU 290 UGANDA 291 UKRAINE 292 UMM AL QAIWAIN - U.A.E. 293 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 294 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 295 URUGUAY 296 UZBEKISTAN 297 VANUATU 298 VATICAN CITY 299 VENEZUELA 300 VIETNAM 301 WEST AFRICAN STATES 302 YEMEN 303 YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC 304 YEMEN REPUBLIC 305 YEMEN, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 306 YUGOSLAVIA 307 ZAIR 308 ZAMBIA 309 ZANZIBAR 310 ZIMBABWE So not 311 / 313 but 308 / 310 from reason I forgot that I put on my excel list Hutt River, East Timor and Isle de Pascua. My source is Krause book - but like You can see German states, or China provinces, Mexico revolutionary, Spanish civil war, I count as one. I chose this form to have a goal to achieve in my life Of course when the opportunity arises I also gather for example: China provinces 19/31 Chinese Soviet Republic 2/8 Germany States 12/25 India Princely States 10/30 Mexico Revolutionary - Provinces 6/10 Spain Civil War 4/16 but this ones I can not make gather before my death Report this Post to the Staff
geraltttt82 Valued Member United Kingdom 367 Posts	Posted 11/25/2018 08:38 am After some searching, and with big help of friend from Numista, I'm almost at the end of my OFEC XX century collection. Now, after I bought Tajikistan 20 roubles 1999 - one more country left :) 309/310 OFEC XX century colection: Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7956 Posts	Posted 11/25/2018 08:49 am Congratulations! And good luck with finding a nice Zanzibar coin. Report this Post to the Staff
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