Coin from every country

This may be a dumb question but as a very new collector I wanted to satisfy my own curiosity. Does anyone on here have a coin from every current country in the world? If so, what countries that are no longer in existence do you have coins from as well? Thanks for sharing.

 

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Country boarders are forever changing on the Earth. Please take a look at the Krause world coin catalogs for 1900-2000 and you will find several countries listed and how the real estate changes hands. Here is a coin from Biafra.

 

I have a coin for when the philipines was under the U.S., a coin from when Somalia was under U.N. trust to the Italian Government, a coin from when Somalia (former Afaars and Isaas) was controlled by the French, And a coin from the third reich (B mint mark) ((Not sure if this meets your criteria))?

Anyways, I'm sure it would be a challenge to get one from every single country, mainly because some countries don't recognize the declarations of other countries being a soverign nation

 

I know of someone that collects coins from now dead countries. Quite a nice collection! With new coins being added all the time

 

Here is a coin from Biafra.

 

Coins from countries that don't exist anymore? Does Sassanid Persia, hepthalites, sogdians, ancient Rome, Parthia, Carthage, etc count?

If not, how about German states, Italian states, countries taken over by Russia?

Sorry, end of rant. To answer your question OP collecting by country is a popular way to collect world coins. You get to define the parameters of your collection yourself, and include former countries as much as you wish. A friend has coins from every country back to 1800. I have never collected that way, but I bet I have a few hundred countries at least.

Its a fun way to collect, and you can get almost all 20th century countries for almost free. World coin collecting is very cheap if you are just collecting by country.

 

Very cool coin collect89. Thanks for the input so far everyone. I have a very meager collection of coins from countries other then the US and they are only worth face value, but I have become very intrigued by foreign currency and ancients (don't have any of those yet).

 

This is a pretty coin from Ajman. Today Ajman is part of the UAE.

 

Collect89 how did you get the coin from Ajman? Medoraman, would you be able to post pics of any of the ancient coins? I love the ancient coins I have seen on this site so far.

 

I would suggest a cheap copy of KM World coins for the 20th century. That will get you started, and let you know what is available. Just get a copy of it on Ebay for less than $10, you are not interested in prices, (that is another topic), but knowledge.

 

Here are a few of mine, besides my avatar:

 

awesome coins Medoraman, how did you get those?

 

Nothing dumb about your question.

Rather than just a single coin per country, I collect one coin per monetary regime, which increases the potential size of that collection to somewhere north of 1,500. (It's presently at a little over 300.)

Among other things that makes it simpler to decide, for example whether the German Empire and the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) are 1 country, or two.

For example, under Great Britain I have coins with busts of every monarch from George III through Elizabeth II (plus a scattered few earlier ones), and for Elizabeth I have both sterling and decimal coins. I also have multiple coins from countries such as Germany or Mexico, which have undergone both political and monetary changes over the years.

It's not only interesting, but very historically educational.

 

Thanks Hontonai, I definitely agree its interesting and educational. I am always wondering who may have owned or held a coin, especially the older ones.

 

The last two pictures are just of junk box purchases I bought at CICF last year. They were 6 for $110. The first one was a close up of a group of Parthian and Sassanid coins I bought earlier this year as well.

Not great pics, but I am infamous for being a bad photographer here. Most of my coins, (I have a few thousand ancients at least), I don't have pics of.

I do have a better picture of my library. You can tell my priorities:



This is a few years old, so I have added about 40 books since then.

You don't need THIS many, but good reference books are invaluable in this hobby. Its money well spent.

Chris

 

WOW! That is a lot of books. It would probably take me the rest of my life to read all of those lol.

 

Lol, those aren't even my periodicals or history books. Those are in another bookcase.

Ancients are a pretty literature intensive field if you want to delve into them fully. Great reading though.

To be fair, most ancient collectors specialize in "normal" areas. My interests run the gambit from Greek, Roman, provincial, middle eastern, oriental, SE Asia, etc. I would not characterize my library as what is needed by most ancient or world collectors. Most would do fine with one shelf I have.

 

That particular coin was purchased from a World coin dealer named Allen Berman. After I had selected & purchased the coin, Allen said: "....I could sell that to anyone that does one per country".

I used to post threads here at CT when I got a batch of World coins from an old-time collector. You can search for old CT threads from collect89 containing the word "batch". These old threads will show you some of the junk-box World coins that are all part of my collection today.

You may also want to search old CT threads containing the words "per country".

 

I am envious of those that can collect one coin per country. How do you do it? I cannot collect just one coin per emperor or empress, let alone COUNTRY.

Just last week a seller had 12 kushanshah coins of a type I hadn't seen for sale before. Guess how many I bought of the exact same TYPE?

 

This is the list of countries, territories or former states (including provinces and german states) I have at least one coin (from highest to lowest number of coins). Total 306:




UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPAIN
UNITED KINGDOM
FRANCE
PORTUGAL
CROATIA
GERMANY REP. FED.
DENMARK
ITALY
MEXICO
POLAND
CANADA
HUNGARY
BRAZIL
TURKEY
INDIA
SWEDEN
YUGOSLAVIA
RUSSIA
BELGIUM
GREECE
SLOVENIA
AUSTRALIA
ARGENTINA
CUBA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
PERU
MALTA
CHINA
THAILANDIA
SWITZERLAND
CHECOSLOVKIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
NORWAY
ROMANIA
SOUTH AFRICA
VENEZUELA
LITHUANIA
FINLAND
TUNISIA
ISRAEL
JAPAN
MOROCCO
SYRIA
USSR SOVIET UNION
CHILE
GIBRALTAR
BULGARIA
LATVIA
ALBANIA
COLOMBIA
NICARAGUA
BOLIVIA
ICELAND
PANAMA
SLOVAKIA
PHILIPPINES
URUGUAY
EGYPT
ECUADOR
SOMALIA
GERMANY DEM. REP.
IRAN
IRELAND
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
ESTONIA
NEW ZEALAND
SOMALILAND
WEST AFRICA
CYPRUS
GUATEMALA
HONG KONG
COSTA RICA
SINGAPORE
UKRAINE
NORTH KOREA
SOUTH KOREA
MALAYSIA
MYANMAR
PARAGUAY
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
SAMOA
BAHRAIN
INDONESIA
MAURICIO
SERBIA
Tajikistan
BARBADOS
IRAK
KUWAIT
LEBANON
LUXEMBOURG
MOLDOVA
NAMIBIA
ALGERIA
JORDAN
KENYA
MALAWI
St. Helena and Ascension
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
SRI LANKA
TANZANIA
CONGO REP. DEM.
DJIBOUTI
UNITED EMIRATES ARAB
ETHIOPIA
HONDURAS
FALKLAND ISLANDS
KAZAKHSTAN
MACAO
MACEDONIA
OMAN
PAKISTAN
SWAZILAND
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC
ANDORRA
ARMENIA
Bangladesh
EAST CARIBBEAN STATES
EL SALVADOR
FIJI
GUYANA
ISLE OF MAN
JAMAICA
JERSEY
TURKMENISTAN
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
SAUDI ARABIA
BERMUDA
BRUNEI
KYRGYZSTAN
NEPAL
TAIWAN
UZBEKISTAN
VIETNAM
AFGHANISTAN
ANGOLA
BOTSWANA
GEORGIA
GHANA
GUERNSEY
CAYMAN ISLAND
LAOS
MALDIVES
MONGOLIA
NAGORNO Karabah
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
SEYCHELLES
TRANDSNIESTRIA
CENTRAL AFRICA
BAHAMAS
ERITREA
BRITISH INDIA
DUTCH INDIA
LIBYA
MONACO
MOZAMBIQUE
FRENCH POLYNESIA
TONGA
ZAMBIA
ZIMBABWE
GERMANY III REICH
REP GERMANY WEIMAR
ARUBA
BELIZE
BHUTAN
CAPE VERDE
COMORES
GAMBIA
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
INDOCHINA FRENCH
SOLOMON ISLANDS
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAURITANIA
NIGERIA
PALESTINE
SURINAME
VATICAN
ZAIRE
EAST AFRICA
EQUATORIAL AFRICA
AFRICA OCC. FRENCH
GERMANY EMPIRE
Brunswick-Lüneburg
BURUNDI
CAMBODIA
CAMEROON
CONGO REP. DU
FRANKFURT
HAITI
HANNOVER
COOK ISLANDS
KIRIBATI
Lesotho
LIBERIA
MALAYA & BRITISH BORNEO
MUTAWAKKILITE
NEW CALEDONIA
QATAR
REP. Sahrawi Arab
RHODESIA
SAN MARINO
SIERRA LEONE
TIBET
TIMOR
TOGO
UGANDA
GERMAN EAST AFRICA
ALDERNEY
SOUTH ARABIA
Ascension Island
AZERBAIJAN
AZORES
BADEN
Bahawalpur
BAVARIA
BENIN
Bernese Oberland
BELARUS
Bohemian-Moravian
BRITISH GUIANA
BRITISH HONDURAS
CABINDA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CHAD
Cochin
BELGIAN CONGO
CRETE
CURAÇAO
DANZIG
DEMARABY ESSEQUEBO
FRENCH AFFARS ISSAS
FRENCH SOMALILAND
GABON
GREENLAND
GUINEA
GUINEA BISSAU
PORTUGUESE GUINEA
Hesse Darmstadt
HUNAN
Hutt River Province
DANISH INDIA
PORTUGUESE INDIA
ISLAND Stoltenhoff
FAROES
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS
EASTER ISLAND
PITCAIRN ISLANDS
GEORGIA AND S. SANDWICH ISLANDS
ITALIAN SOMALIA
KATANGA
KEELING COCOS
KURDISTAN
LIECHTENSTEIN
LIVONIA
MADAGASCAR
MADEIRA
MALAYA
MALI
MAUI
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
MONTENEGRO
MUSCAT AND OMAN
NASSAU
NEW BRUNSWICK
NEWFOUNDLAND
NIUE
NOVA SCOTIA
NEW GUINEA
New Hebrides
FRENCH OCEANIA
PALAU
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
PRUSSIA
DUBAI-QATAR
REUNION ISLAND
Reuss-Schleiz
SOUTHERN RHODESIA
Rhodesia & Nyasaland
RWANDA
RWANDA-BURUNDI
SAARLAND
SAINT PIERRE ET MIQUELON
SAXONY
SANTA HELENA
SARAWAK
SARDINIA
SCHAUMBURG LIPPE
SPITZBERGEN
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
SUDAN
Tatarstan
TOKELAU
TUSCANY
Tristan da Cunha
TURKS & CAICOS
TUVALU
VANUATU
North Vietnam
YEMEN REP. DEMOCRATIC
WESTFALIA
WURTTEMBERG
ZANZIBAR