Countries with few coins

Thanks. Great thread.

I have been collecting for most of my life and these are the type of coins that I was always looking for. Trying to check off a box for every country listed in the copy of " A Catalog of Modern World Coins" given to me when I was about nine or ten years old. I am still at it when I find another "new" one listed in the "Standard Catalog".

I realized I didn't have a British West Indies after seeing your earlier post so... another one on my list.

Edit; hmmm. I don't have any Siberia either. Need to fix that!

 

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Here is another. Tonkin. It didn't have that oxidation when I purchased it 40 years ago.

I hate zinc.

 

Would New Brunswick count? You'd only need 9 coins for a set unless you start getting into varieties

 

Sure, why not?

 

Well, then I guess Nova Scotia counts (5 decimal coins without varieties)

 

Keeling Cocos Islands- Plastic "ivory" tokens. A bit of a grey area I guess...

 

Thanks to Hiddendragon for starting this new thread and SiberianMan, PaddyB, jjoo and Muzyck for adding more information about these less available coins. I hope other fellows would add some more images and information.

 

Thanks to Hiddendragon for starting this new interesting thread and also to Siberian Man and others to add more images about those rare countries coins. I hope other senior members would also participate in this thread and put more images and information. Thanks once again.

 

Here's a 3 maravedis from the Spanish province of Navarre.

 

Here is one of mine....
AV 1/2 Pistole 1575 Trevoux Mint
Dombes
Prince Louis II de Bourbon Montepensier
ex: Kunker Auction "mint state"

 

another...

 

another.... 2 AV Staters from Kolchis/ Black Sea Region/ only 4 types struck/ less then 20 examples known!

 

Grate collection panzerman.

 

Who doesn't love a small quaint country or colony ?

As a British Colonial collector I could bombard this thread but here are a select few of my own.
Apologies I couldn't find pics of the New Guinea reverse.

Gold Coast (Now Ghana)




Sierra Leone company (from this issue they didn't have their own country specific currency until independence)


Penang (Prince of wales island) another I couldn't find the reverse pics of..


Territory of New Guinea



Java British Occupation


Dominica


Bahamas (Ok not now but back then this was the only coin issued in the name for a long time)


Essequibo & Demerara



Tobago




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Those are all great coins!

 

Thanks !

Here's another I've just found. Qu'aiti Eastern Aden Protectorate 1 Riyal




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Great coins indeed.

 

Finally managed to track down my picture of this one. (I sold the coin a few years ago.) Sarawak one cent from 1889.

 

I remember how excited I was the first time I saw a coin from Sarawak because I had no idea where that is.