A coin from every country

I added 400 coins to my spreadsheet over the last couple of days. Those bring me 2339. That's not including U.S. stuff.

 

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Suppose you could add Euro coins minted in Germany also...

 

The list as it is now is already pretty impressive. And just as there is no difference between "West German" and "Unified German" coinage, I would count Mark coins from the Federal Republic and Euro coins from the Federal Republic as one. Otherwise you could divide more than a dozen European countries into (at least) two categories ...

Christian

 

The "Post Bismark Unification" issues are the Second Reich. Sort of like state Quarters, only much more expensive. The Kings and grand dukes were sort of like state governors.

 

Well as I have mentioned I am also collecting coins from every country. Will post my list later. BUT with regard to the whole GermanCoin thing.

Where do you start with Germany? It was a Kingdom, then the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Occupied, divided and then unified. Then you throw in some Notgeld and even some Nazi-Occupation currency.

I have put them as the above countries in my collection. Germany been my full country and the rest been former countries. The only German currency I dont have is from East-Germany.

The Kingdom of Nepal now falls in my former country seeing that they have become a Republic. The same with the former Kingdoms of Portugal and Italy.

 

Easy. You start where you want to start.

Theoretically you could begin with Charlemagne (or the time after him, when the Carolingian Empire was divided) - but I would not do that. Germany as a country with one currency did not exist until 1871, so that could be a starting point. Then you may say that until 1918 the country was a monarchy (or federation of monarchies) and then became a republic, and focus on the post-WW1 coinage (Weimar Republic, Nazi Regime, Allied Occupation).

Since this country - the Federal Republic of Germany - was founded in 1949, that or the '48 currency reform would be another good start. Or, collect the euro coinage only; such a collection won't be too comprehensive ...

By the way, great name you have.

Christian

 

Okay, as Germany, start with 1950, there were only three Germanies back then (Saarland, East Germany and West Germany), or better yet, start with 1999, when you start having Euro coins.

For Euro coins I would get something cheap, like the 20 or 50 eurocents. I remember you used to be able to order a complete set of 1, 2 and 5 €¢'s (well at least the original 12) for about ten bucks in a nice album.

The latest Brazillian coins are the same size and composition as euroes.

 

since there is no 100% agreed list i just went with the UN members to come up with 195 countries.

http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/grid155.php

i still have a long ways to go but at least i can say that most of those i actually got while traveling and not at a flea market ;-)

the problem here really is what to do about the countries who don't have a national currency of their own.

what do you guys think? by the way, one can make up their own grid though it does take a while labeling all the cells by hand!

ras

 

Yes that is another good point. Some countries have their currency as US Dollar. Costa Ricca comes to mind. And some of the Pacific Island places.encil:

 

Actually, they don't. Costa Rica still uses the Corona. Big coins, too.

 

In the Americas, Ecuador and El Salvador are "dollarized" with the US Dollar being legal tender. Costa Rica has the Colón, but I guess the Dollar works too. As far as I know, Panama basically uses the Dollar but also issues (Balboa and Centesimo) coins ...

Christian

 

Okay Costa Rica does not come to mind then. I live in the dark continent...

East Timor
British Virgin Islands (U.K.)
Ecuador
El Salvador
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
Panama
Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.)
Bermuda (alongside Bermudian dollar) (U.K

The countries that also use the Dollar.

But when I was in Mozambique I could buy with Dollar there as well when I went to the UAE.​

 

Add the Bahamas, while your at it, and the entire lesser Antillies (including the Dutch and French bits). They all gladly take US Dollars.

 

Maybe we should differentiate here - rasiel mentioned places that "don't have a national currency of their own" (as in: no coins from there in the OFEC collection). For example, you can easily use the US Dollar in St. Martin - but Saint-Martin (French) has the Euro and no local coins, while Sint Maarten (Dutch), on the same island, has the Antilles Guilder ...

Christian

 

depends....

Use the coins that are used there, like the East Caribbean Group coins...or state quarters....Lots of small "statelets" have produced specimen sets that really didn't circulate at all, like the Turks and Caicos and Andorra.

 

Hey guys I haven't posted in a while but my world coin collecting is going great. So far i've gotten 120 different countries. Roughly 80 more to go!

 

This is copied from an Excel data base so it might look strange, but it is a listing of the Countries I have collected so far. This is a neverending project. My goal is 200 different countries. I have photos scanned on PDF, but that would be a monster to show. Guess I have to get my own web site and do it right. Is there a trick to doing a cut and past from excel to this format?

Countries Represented in World Coin Collection

AFGHANISTAN​

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ALBANIA​

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ARGENTINA​

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AUSTRALIA​

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AUSTRIA​

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BAHAMAS​

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BAHRAIN​

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BANGLADESH​

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BARBADOS​

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BELGIUM​

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BELIZE​

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BERMUDA​

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BRAZIL​

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BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS​

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BRUNEI​

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BULGARIA​

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CANADA​

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CAYMANS ISLANDS​

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CHILE​

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CHINA​

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COLUMBIA​

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CONGO​

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COSTA RICA​

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COSTA RICA​

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CROATIA​

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CUBA​

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CYPRUS​

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA​

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DENMARK​

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC​

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EAST CARIBBEAN STATES​

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ECUADOR​

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EGYPT​

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EL SALVADOR​

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ESTONIA​

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FIGI ISLANDS​

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FINLAND​

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FRANCE​

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FRENCH INDO-CHINA​

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FRENCH POLYNESIA​

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GERMANY​

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GHANA​

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GIBRALTER​

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GREAT BRITAIN​

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GREECE​

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GUATEMALA​

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GUERNSEY​

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HONG KONG​

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HUNGARY​

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ICELAND​

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INDIA​

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INDONESIA​

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IRAN​

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IRAQ​

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IRELAND​

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ISLE OF MAN​

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ISRAEL​

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ITALY​

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JAMAICA​

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JAPAN​

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JORDON​

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KENYA​

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LATVIA​

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LEBANON​

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LIBERIA​

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LITHUANIA​

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LITHUANIA​

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LUXEMBOURGE​

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MACAO​

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MALAWI​

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MALAYA​

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MALTA​

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MAURITIUS​

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MEXICO​

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MOROCCO​

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MOZAMBIQUE​

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MYANMAR​

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NEPAL​

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NETHERLANDS​

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NEW CALEDONIA​

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NEW ZEALAND​

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NIGERIA​

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NORWAY​

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OMAN​

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PAKISTAN​

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PANAMA​

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PARAGUAY​

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PERU​

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PHILIPPINES​

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POLAND​

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PORTUGAL​

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RHODESIA​

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ROMANIA​

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RUSSIA​

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SAUDI ARABIA​

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SINGAPORE​

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SLOVAKIA​

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SLOVENIA​

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SOUTH AFRICA​

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SOUTH KOREA​

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SPAIN​

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SWEDEN​

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SWITZERLAND​

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SYRIA​

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TAIWAN​

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TANZANIA​

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THAILAND​

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TRINIDAD & TABAGO​

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TUNISIA​

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TURKEY​

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UKRAINE​

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES​

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URUGUAY​

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VENEZUELA​

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VIET NAM​

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YUGOSLAVIA​

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ZAMBIA​

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ZIMBABWE​

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Coins are circulation types.​

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Mintage from late 1800 to current date.​

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1032 different coins.​

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Uncirculated Euro Sets​

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Austria​

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Belgium​

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Cyprus​

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France​

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Germany​

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Greece​

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Ireland​

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Italy​

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Luxembourg​

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Malta​

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Netherlands​

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Portugal​

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Slovenia​

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Spain​

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