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Message:: [QUOTE="hontonai, post: 623828, member: 4703"]The term is "OFEC" referring to One From Every Country, and there are a whole lot of us doing it. However, there is very little consensus on what constitutes "Every Country".  Many people join physics-fan3.14 in following Krause, although there is a great deal of variation even there. For instance if you collect Great Britain, you can choose (in just the 20th Century) between: <ul> <li>A single coin</li> <li>A pre-decimal coin and a decimal coin</li> <li>One coin each from the reigns of Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI, and either one or two (pre-decimal/decimal) from Elizabeth II.</li> </ul>20th Century Japan can be represented by a single coin, or by one coin each from the Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei eras. I won't even go into the number of variations available to represent 20th Century Germany! When you go back past 1901 the possibilties increase almost exponentially.  Just 19th Century Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires account for at least a couple of hundred candidates. My own collection is based on Krause, and includes each regnal or monetary regime whether or not separately listed in a Krause volume.  I conservatively estimate that my current 350+ coins represent significantly less than a quarter of those that would comprise a complete 17th-21st Century OFEC collection by my definition.[/QUOTE]