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United Kingdom
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A new country has been added to the total in the world bringing the total now to 193. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14089843For the world coin collecting completists that will mean another one to add to the list. I'll probably try to get an inexpensive example when (if) some are issued. Best of luck to them for a peaceful and happy existance. |
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United States
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Time to start another album then.
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Germany
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What is the current situation, are they going to continue with the currency of Sudan for a while or adopt someone else's currency or try and push through their own as soon as possible?
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United States
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I would think they'd want to strike out with a new identity, as soon as possible; I suspect they would want their own currency, good place to put the face of a new country. Still not clear why they chose South Sudan, instead of something unique for them.
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What is the current situation, are they going to continue with the currency of Sudan for a while or adopt someone else's currency or try and push through their own as soon as possible? They don't know yet. Their new constitution establishes a central bank to handle currency issues, but until that actually gets up and running, the North Sudanese pound will remain the currency in the South. They will probably want to start issuing their own currency, at least for collectors, by the end of the year. Quote:
Still not clear why they chose South Sudan, instead of something unique for them. Probably for a similar reason that West Virginians didn't pick a "unique" name for their state when it split from Virginia back in the Civil War days: the name still held meaning to them. The name "Sudan" derives from the Arabic phrase "land of the blacks", so the locals in the South probably consider themselves more truly "Sudanese" than the descendants of Arab colonist-invaders that dominiate the North. 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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Norway
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193 countries? I have 194 on my list already before this and count South Sudan as No. 195. The difference between my list an UNs list of members are Taiwan and Vatican City.
I have coins from "only" 185 of the 194 countries and I hope South Sudan will not prove as difficult as Burkina Faso.
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Germany
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The 193 figure refers to the number of UN members, as you wrote. If you counted based on other criteria, you may end up with more than 200 including places such as Abkhazia or Transnistria. Hard to draw a generally accepted line here ...
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Japan
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if, for some bizarre, peculiar and totally inexplicable reason, I were asked to give an advice to the s.sudanese government I would propose not to bother with making their own currency at all, but to use some they prefer best: the choice is as wide as the whole world: from yuans to swiss franks to south african rands
but, there is no way, it would happen for as making one's own monieS , and then devaluing / debasing them is the best way for state profiteering ever invented
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Norway
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The 193 figure refers to the number of UN members, as you wrote. If you counted based on other criteria, you may end up with more than 200 including places such as Abkhazia or Transnistria. Hard to draw a generally accepted line here ...
You are undoubtedly right. I got my 192 (as it was then) from a geography book a few years ago. Since I have added Timor-Leste, Montenegro and now South Sudan. What to add and what not to add (Abkhazia, Kosovo) is not always clear-cut. As an OFEC-collector I try to get not only officionally recognized countries but all the others, too, so luckily it doesn't make all that much difference to me how they are defined. I would be more than happy to relegate the Vatican, which does not much seem like a proper country, to the same category as Guernsey and Gibraltar. It would feel strange to demote Taiwan, though. |
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United States
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Japan
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and will there be any coins at all? - I was just listening to the news on the bbc world radio: they mentioned banknotes ready to be shipped in by planes, but did not say anything about coins
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Posted 07/09/2011 8:33 pm
