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Message:: [QUOTE="danielf, post: 650346, member: 16708"]I have been, more or less, working on the same collection. I too have identified "all" of the countries for my list by choosing to use K&M's table of contents for 19th and 20th Century coins as my universe. Of course, that still leaves a little bit of haziness when I get an earlier coin (like for Scotland, which had no coinage after the 18th Century), but that is not a big problem. Through this method, I have a list of 255 countries (like Israel, Malaysia, Germany, Mexico) and 265 sub-"nations" (like Palestine, Sarawak, Wiemar Republic and Chihuaua). I think that if you go for error coins, first year issues or silver coins, that would certainly give you more focus, but it would also make your collection much more challenging. With just the minimal parameters that I am following, I have only managed to gather coins from 191 nations and an additional 58 subnations (a total of 1917 unique modern coins). But any way that you go about it, I am sure that you will have a lot of fun so you can certainly not lose. -Daniel[/QUOTE]