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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jays-dad, post: 1250095, member: 26881&quot;]I love OFEC collecting. I&#039;ve got so many, I&#039;m not even sure at the moment. I just got a new one yesterday, Faeroe Islands. Definitely not fancy, but....new. I use a VERY loose definition of OFEC to maximize the number of places I have. I tend to count a new place if it is a new government, i.e. Kingdom of Portugal and Republic of Portugal. However, I also collect/accumulate banknotes and there are quite a few places that I can add this way, Oceania is one, but there are more, I&#039;m thinking Iloilo too. You get the idea. However, I also have a pretty large world stamp collection left over from when I was young(er). I decided to expand my OFEC to include them as well. Wow is there a LOT of places that don&#039;t come up in coins. Portuguese Mozambique is an interesting place. In coins, you need 1 to complete the &quot;place&quot;. In stamps....a bunch. Portuguese Mozambique was divided into the following: Lourenco Marques, Inhambane, Quelimane, Tete, Mozambique, Zambezia, Nyasa, and the Manica and Sofala region which was controlled by the Mozambique Company. All issued distinctly different stamps. There are &quot;offices abroad&quot;, occupation stamps, rebel governments, provisional governments, etc. I&#039;ve been pulling out an OFEC set of the stamps, looking for great postmarks from strange cities, towns, and villages. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I really respect coins way more than stamps, but my OFEC collection was stalling, awfully hard to find new places.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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