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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2729699, member: 46237&quot;]Likely not that many cases, since what I&#039;m talking about is rather specific.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not collecting the coins to illustrate the history of the country, I&#039;m just creating logical groupings to make sets based on an analysis of type and planchet composition changes. The sets themselves form around governmental changes, wars, and legislative events.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m looking at Hungary 1848-1956, so during that time you had 2 revolutions, two foreign occupations, 3 kings, 1 regent, 4 short-lived republics, 2 world wars, the country&#039;s 1000th anniversary, a change to the gold standard, empire expansion, two periods of massive hyper-inflation, and three periods of legislatively mandated coinage updates. Each of these events led to sweeping changes in coinage, and thus create the boundaries of the sets and sub-sets quite clearly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Identifying those major changes is not the issue. The problem is dealing with types that overlap between two periods. Of that, I see two variations:</p><ul> <li>A type that slightly overlaps into another period on either end of its run, where there are no breaks in mintage.</li> </ul><p>For me this one is clear. If there is no break in mintage, I attribute it to the earlier set or sub-set. For example during the Austro-Hungarian Forint period (1867-1892) they updated the king&#039;s bust and country&#039;s coat of arms every decade, starting in 1870. While many types changed over exactly on the decade year, several types were updated one or two years early, and a couple, a year late. While these are examples of types that overflow from one logical group into another, there are no gaps in mintage years, and the types correlate cleanly with each other based on bust/arms type, so there&#039;s no confusion.</p><ul> <li>A type that is discontinued in one period, and then resumed within the boundary of another period.</li> </ul><p>This second variation is the one that gives me pause, and it&#039;s entirely due to the gap. One coinage period clearly ends, the coin is discontinued for several years, and then a new coinage period clearly begins and the type is produced again. The only times this happened during this period is around the world wars, with two types split between coinage periods during/after WWI, and three types split between coinage periods post-WWII. I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if this happened around the world wars for other countries in the region as well, for it was the disruption of the wars that caused the events that led to the disruption in coinage, and also for the hasty and deliberate resumption of the minting of the previous period&#039;s coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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