A Showoff Of My One From Every Country Foreign Set 1900-2000

This is actually a more popular theme than you might have realized. I am one of those who keep such a collection, and recently I decided to classify them by whether they are currently circulating or not (regular coins or just NCLT), and whether the country still exists or not. This can be a gray area, and is also constantly in flux as new countries start issuing coins. So there are many ways to slice and dice the organization of the collection.

Good luck!

Come to think of it, Abyssinia and Ethiopia are one and the same, and I found myself a good Ethiopian coin some time ago.
The Austrian 1967 2 groschen proof I found in a dealers junk foreign box back in 2019...

I am also putting NCLT coins in my set for continuity reasons...

For the Australia 1939 1/2 penny, that too was a junk box find a few months ago. I look through everything that a dealer has for sale since I overlook things at times.

How you collect is personal and flexible.
Names of places change over time.
Do any members that collect in this way have a coin from Persia?
And also one from Iran?
Some may have an ancient coin from the land of Persia, and a modern coin from Iran.
Different names for the same place?
Perhaps historical boundaries shifted?
I have an old coin listed as Abyssinia because that is the name printed in the Krause catalog, the coin is dated within the years when that name was used, and paper money was also in use as "Bank of Abyssinia".
Sort of let's me get away with inflating my collection by adding another checklist line.

i dont have much to add but I think I can learn a lot from the discussion here so -

I will admit to having a Western bias when it comes to countries changing their names: if the name-change is in an alphabet I can read (Latin, Greek or Cyrillic), the two names get separate country-listings. But if it's in an alphabet I can't read (like Abyssinia/Ethiopia, Burma/Myanmar, Persia/Iran and Siam/Thailand), then I usually just use the modern name. But it's not consistent; Ceylon and Sri Lanka have separate entries, even though that name change happened while the English country-name no longer appeared on the coinage.

Wow,what a great thread. I was just wondering if there were any other collectors as obsessed as my father was. We started collecting 50 years ago, just filling the penny holes, because at 12 that's all I could afford. He made it his life's hobby collecting coins from every country, state and city or province....still in existence or not. I'd like to think I helped him along with my travels around the world in the military for 30 years. Rough way to get the newest issues, but got to see the world a few times over. He was also heavily into metal detecting, doing so in several countries, and adding to his collection. Happy New Year and best wishes to all.

Very nice!