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United States
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As a young (and not very expert) collector in the early '80s, I decided to try gathering (mostly modern) coins from as many different countries as I could. At some point I even started maintaining an alphabetical list of all the places I had coins from.
I had to drop a few countries from my list when I sold all of my "good" coins in '82, but the vast majority of countries I ever had coins from are still represented in my pile of "cheap" coins.
My list includes "normal" countries (including the U.S.A.) as well as "conglomerations" (there has to be some official term for this) like British Caribbean Territories, European Union and French Equatorial Africa.
The total number of places I have coins from is 123.
Does anyone else around here have coins from lots of countries?
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Moderator
 United States
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According to my spreadsheet, I have coins from 55 different countries (including the USA). More than I thought.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
16857 Posts |
I think my number falls around 60, at last count.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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as well as "conglomerations" (there has to be some official term for this) "Monetary union."
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Moderator
United States
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Looks like I have my only Euro coin listed under its country of origin (France). If I count EU as a separate entity, that makes 56.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have one from every country for the 20th C and also one from every country for the 21st C
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have one from every country for the 20th C and also one from every country for the 21st C Malta?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes they are checked off on both lists.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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My OFEC count is at 213, but I'm sure other members like triggersmob, NumisRob, wannabfree & Dorado have higher counts.
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My OFEC count is at 213 ...  Nice job! It depends on how you count. If I count according to modern national boundaries, I probably have about 80, the majority of these coming from my birthyear world coin set. But if I count "issuers" maybe closer to 150. In this case a place like Italy (1 modern country) becomes more than a dozen in my collection: Kingdom of Sicily, Duchies of Ferrara, Mantua, Milan, Modena and Reggio, Parma, Tuscany, Urbino; Republics of Florence, Lucca, Venice, Cities of Ascoli, Rimini; Papal States). Low Countries (normally counting for at most 3 "countries" becomes another ten (Lower Lotharingia, Duchy of Brabant, Counties of Flanders, Frisia, Hainaut, Holland, Namur, Bishoprics of Liege, Utrecht; Abbey of Nivelles). For the region of Silesia (which KM counts under Germany but nobody else does), I've got another 8 or so (Duchies of Krosno, Liegnitz-Brieg, Teschen, Troppau, Wurttemburg-Oels, Silesian Evangelical Estates, Bishopric of Breslau, Hapsburg Silesia, etc...) And for the rest of "Germany," well, the sky's the limit (though I probably only have another 15 there including a few modern city notgeld issues). And you probably thought it was a simple question ... 
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07/20/2023 08:31 am
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Australia
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My count is at 258 at the moment.
View my Coins here, (NOW WITH OVER 16,800 IMAGES).... http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?cat=10048OFEC count = 237 Edited by triggersmob
07/20/2023 09:02 am
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Australia
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"One from every country" is as close as I get to having a "theme" or "goal" for my collection. And given that my collection is over 14,000 coins and goes all the way back to ancients, I have a rather larger number of countries than the Wikipedia or CIA Factbook "lists of countries" allow for. Back in 2007, my OFEC list was 581 "countries" long when I posted it on the forum, in this old thread. My count has since grown to over 700. 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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United States
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Impressive counts!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sounds like Sap should be a member of one of my online collector groups- if not already and I don't recognize the name.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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According to my Excel worksheet on my computer, I have coins from 219 different countries. However this includes a number of former countries and states that no longer issue their own coins (i.e. Scotland and Reunion) and places like St Helena, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, Jresey and Guernsey.
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United States
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Sounds like NumisRob may be interested in joining my online collector group if not already and I don't recognize the name.
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Posted 07/19/2023 4:29 pm
