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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 125704, member: 669&quot;]How many countries there are depends on your personal definition of the &quot;countries&quot; you want to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple of hundred independent nations in the world, most of which belong to the United Nations.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there are probably more than 500 &quot;countries&quot; listed in the Standard Catalog of World Coins, counting all Century editions; including German States, Italian States, North and South American, Asian and African colonies of European nations which existed at different times.&nbsp; A modern example is the former Yugoslavia, which united&nbsp; multiple pre-World War II countries and subsequently broke apart.&nbsp; There&#039;s also places like East Germany which came into existence for several decades, and then disappeared.</p><p><br /></p><p>OFEC collecting can be relatively inexpensive, but very challenging.&nbsp; For any definition except &quot;UN Member nations as of a specific date&quot;, it&#039;s probably incapable of being completed - at least in one lifetime. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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