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 United States
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Reviving an Old Topic
What's the greatest number of different KM, Y, & X numbers you have from One Country?
I think I am up to 158 with Russia  Sap I am demanding an answer this time 
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 Australia
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Are we still excluding USA, Canada and Australia? Here are some guesses for countries besides those three:
- France (including all it's various government changes, including the Vichy State, including euro coins, excluding ancients, mediaeval and French provincials).
- Great Britain (including model coins listed in KMX, excluding tokens, excluding all coins made in the names of "Scotland" and "England").
- Spain (including mediaeval pre-Krause types, excluding Colonial issues, excluding provincial/civil war issues).
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and calculate how many types I have in these categories.
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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Australia
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OK, here are the stats: France: 86 coins, 6 notes Great Britain: 187 coins, 17 notes Spain: 47 coins, 1 note I haven't done the stats for the "big three" yet; gimme a few more minutes. I suspect Australia (thanks to the plethora of modern issues) and the USA (thanks to the State Quarters) would both be larger than British. Hey GO, I do hope you aren't counting "USSR" coins in with your "Russia" tally. They're two separate countries.  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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Australia
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Australia was tricky to count because coins in my pulled-from-circulation set aren't included in the database. Neither had I gone through and updated KM numbers for Australia and Canada when I acquired my most recent Krause, a couple of years ago, so the counts for modern issues might be inaccurate. Given those caveats, here are the figures:
Australia: about 140 coins
Canada: 121 coins
USA: 74 coins
Guess I was wrong; Britain is still the winner for me.
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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Australia
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I believe I can rival with Grace when it comes to Russian coins. They can be seen in my omnicoin page.  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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United States
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France- 165
Great Britain- 151
Russia- 83
Sweden- 67
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United States
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My highest number is likely my US coins, but I don't file them by KM#. I'd have to guess there are about 150 different KM#s. Great Britain is the second highest at 80, followed by France at 62. |
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United States
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My top 10
Canada(incl territories) 222
Russia(incl USSR) 172
Great Britain 171
China 143
Germany(incl states) 134
India(incl states) 134
France 116
Mexico 116
Sweden 106
Denmark 98
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 United States
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Hey GO, I do hope you aren't counting "USSR" coins in with your "Russia" tally. They're two separate countries. I sure am  I organize by main country first then name alterations second |
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United States
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The comment about Russia and the USSR being two countries is technically correct, but it is like saying Nazi Germany is a country that is distinct from the German Empire, East and West Germany or the New Unified Germany. They all occupy roughly the same place.
In the case of my favorite place Mexico - you could end up with quite a number of "Countries" even though you have only one location.
I wonder how many different countries have controlled ONE PHYSICAL place located anywhere on the globe? Anyone know? Have a guess?
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United States
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Are you talking dot numbers as separate or as one.
If not France for me at 440.
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Germany
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The comment about Russia and the USSR being two countries is technically correct, but it is like saying Nazi Germany is a country that is distinct from the German Empire, East and West Germany or the New Unified Germany. They all occupy roughly the same place.
Being roughly in the same place does not really mean they're actually the same. Everybody is free to either lump as many different countries as possible into one, or to differentiate as much as possible. When it comes the question "Most KM's for One Country?", you would of course try and add, for example, all your "German" coins from the Ottonic HRE to modern euro issues. But when the number in an OFEC collection counts, you would of course take into account that the German Empire and the Federal Republic are not one and the same country. Christian |
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United States
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I do agree with Christian. I sub-categorize my countries as well.
The only tally I keep is my total number of Mexican Cap and Ray 8R coins KM-377 and their various "dots". At present I own 2,471. (Including counterfeits.)
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United States
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United States
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Love how categorizing can be so confusing. Malay Peninsula, Malaya, Malaya & British Borneo, and Malaysia are all technically the same thing yet technically different.
Most depend on governmental influences, territory annexations, war, and present interpretation of the history of the past
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Norway
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I wonder how many different countries have controlled ONE PHYSICAL place located anywhere on the globe? Anyone know? Have a guess?
Very interesting question. I have wondered the same myself. A couple of places come to mind, such as Iceland and Belarus, but I suspect there will not be many of them. I myself lump Russia together with the Soviet Union and also CIS, for a total of 133 types, my second most after my home country Norway with 190. My total for Norway includes the periods where we were in union with either Denmark og Sweden, and also the German occupation 1941-45, but not the mintage of either Denmark, Sweden or Germany from the same time periods. |
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Posted 12/23/2008 04:51 am
Looking at that many, no wonder you're an expert on the series 
