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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 397047, member: 4703&quot;]On a quick trip to your local public library you can check the country listings in the front of each Standard Catalog of World Coins century edition.&nbsp; Of course there will be a lot of no longer existing countries listed, and many German, Italian and other states that are not really countries to increase your potential total collection size.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are probably as many OFEC definitions as there are collectors.&nbsp; For instance, although many people limit their collections to a single coin from an internationally recognized independent country, I look for a coin from each monetary regime a country has had, such as the pound/shilling/pence and decimal coinage of Great Britain, the pre- and post-currency devaluation series of many countries, etc.&nbsp; By my definition there are a couple of thousand &quot;countries&quot; to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany is a good example: <ul> <li>Many, many pre-Bismark unification state issues</li> <li>A smaller number of post unification state issues</li> <li>Imperial issues</li> <li>Weimar Republic issues</li> <li>Third Reich issues</li> <li>West German issues</li> <li>East German issues</li> <li>Reunified Germany issues, and</li> <li>probably some others.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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