A Half Penny dated 1821 from St Helena brought me to 279. I already had some modern coins from St Helena & Ascension Island but somehow these are 2 different countries in the catalogue.
Nice EIC addition for sure. Back then there was no Suez Canal so indeed the EIC ships would go past this remote Atlantic Island. On top of that, 1821 was the year some military genius from Corsica died on that island. He seemed to have caused a lot of trouble in Europe the 2 decades before that. But thanks to that we do have the metric system now.
Quote: "AngHol"Where do you guys find these 'bargain bins'! Are there any in the uk coin shops?
There are usually plenty of em' containing lower grade/ modern coins that dealers didn't bother to individually house. I live in the UK and have seen plenty of those in UK coin shops, usually 50p and £1 bins.
Quote: "AngHol"Where do you guys find these 'bargain bins'! Are there any in the uk coin shops?
There are usually plenty of em' containing lower grade/ modern coins that dealers didn't bother to individually house. I live in the UK and have seen plenty of those in UK coin shops, usually 50p and £1 bins.
I went on a shopping spree and added Azerbaijan, Brunei, Cameroon, Curacao, Djibouti, East Africa, French Afars & Issas, Katanga, Mongolia, Newfoundland, Reunion, Straits Settlement, and Yemen Arab Republic, and two others countries I already have.
219 and counting
Might have had some of these already (particularly the last two).
No numbers, because I'm still working on "enter my existing collection into Numista". There are lots of countries for which I definitely have coins (often many), but hadn't entered any yet; Canada and China, in particular, both appear in today's purchases, both are well represented in my collection (especially the former), and both apparently have no coins in the Numista version of my collection so far.
But technically, based on the Numista entry, they would've been numbers 76-80. (In reality these numbers should have been about a hundred larger.)
For those who somehow still remember - yes, I'm still on my self-imposed "$2 max per coin" budget. Which didn't keep me from spending $20+ on coins anyway.
Had another great swap, and added a bunch!
Luxemburg, Mocambique, Norway, Romania, Sierra Leone, Singapore, CCCP, Sweden, Taiwan, West Africa and Yugoslavia
Bringing me up to 43 countries!
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I also added an 1821 St. Helena, British East India Co. half penny, KM# A4 to replace the St. Helena NCLT coin that I have. I don't want NCLT's or fantasies to count towards my countries total.
Great swap added another 5 and got me closer to my 2016 goal of reaching 200 countries, they are: Angola, Azerbaijan, Guinea-Bissau, Monaco & Sao Tome and Principe.
*sigh* Still in LA. Dropped some serious coin today, but picked up 9 more countries to bring me to 260: Congo Free State, France - Afars & Issas, Gabon, Hutt River, Italian Somaliland, North Borneo, Portuguese Timor, Rwanda Burundi, and Solomon Islands.
Italian Somaliland must be the grand prize! Which coin did you get and how much was it?
I have all the other countries except Hutt River but that will never happen as I restricted myself to normal circulation coins. Luckily I can soon finally add Belarus :-)
Added Thailand, Netherlands Antilles, South Africa, Poland, Fiji, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Barbados, Hong Kong, Malaysia from the world bin at the LCS. Up to 57 countries now.
Buying 2 coins: Gaul (Senones) potin and Enrique IV blanca. So, Regional Spain would be added.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
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Today I picked a few Arabic coins out of the bulk bins that weren't immediately identifiable, and once I got home and was able to look them up I found that two of them were new countries for me: Syria and Yemen. Up to 190 now.
I decided to "deaccession" my British Virgin Islands coin, as I'm not really interested in collecting coins that weren't made for circulation, so I'm back down to 189 countries.
A couple of swaps added the Congo - Democratic Republic, Gambia, Malawi, Qatar, Reunion, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Somaliland, and Suriname (finally colored in the entire map of South America), so I am at 197 countries. I had 122 countries on 1/21 when I set a goal of 150 countries (quickly met and expanded to 200) so I am pretty pleased with how things have worked out. I expect I'll get to 200 before the halfway point of the year.
Spanish states just added. Requesting for missing pics on the concerned file.
#272
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After a visit to Hobby City (where I actually got less than I expected)...
Actually (probably) new countries for my actual collection: Swaziland, Malawi, probably Uganda, maybe Lebanon and North Korea (can't recall)
"New" countries that (appear in June 1's purchases and) I just hadn't entered into the Numista version of my collection so far (but already had in the real collection): Bhutan (but my first coin from there was bought only a month ago), UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Slovenia, Indonesia, Chile
If I manage to enter all of that, I'll get my Numista country count up from 125 to 137. (It's at 128 now, as I've already entered the coins from UAE, Jordan and North Korea.)
Looking forward to 200 country club (300 might be too expensive).
EDIT: entered the Swaziland, Malawi, Uganda, Lebanon, and Bhutan coins. 133 countries now.
I'm gong to add the same coins, back to #272 after the Persianate states merge to Islamic states
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Well, I have reached my goal for 2016 of 200 countries! A swap brought me Azerbaijan and Iraq, and I found a 1941 half cent from Liberia in a bulk bin yesterday.
Not sure what to expect for the rest of the year. I wonder if 250 is a reasonable goal? Most of the remaining countries will be harder to find or more expensive, and alas, I seem to have fished out all of the interesting and older stuff from the bulk bins at my LCS for now. Hopefully, someone will come and dump a big coin collection soon.
Quote: "jokinen"Finally got the three coins from South Sudan for €4.50 incuding postage, which brings my number of countries to 280.
Has anyone seen the 1 and 2 South Sudanese Pounds coins?
Just bought (this Tuesday) the three South Sudanese coins myself, for 230 rubles (that's even less than €4... actually it's more like €3). Since that was in a coin shop, postage was not a problem
The coin dealer told me pretty definitely that there were no other denominations. I think they haven't been released yet.
Also got my first coin (at least, I think it's my first) from colonial Cabo Verde; it's not a new Numista country (I have three normal Cabo Verde coins), but I still consider it a new country.
Including South Sudan, that's now 167 countries for my Numista collection (but somehow I still hadn't entered anything from, among other places, GDR, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka, which are fairly well represented in my collection; I estimate 210 for my actual collection, not even counting the individual German states).
Also, thanks to South Sudan (and to the African monetary unions being so big), I finally have a continuous (non-gray) path on the map through Africa (I'm still missing Kenya and Congo, which I have but still haven't entered yet, and Sudan, which I might actually lack, as well as a few smaller African countries).
I'd say that soon I'll have every continent fully colored non-gray, but Liechtenstein is a tricky spot, unfortunately. (I also lack Liberia and Western Sahara, and perhaps Sudan, Oman, Ghana, and Honduras [and maybe some small circle I forgot]; a dozen or so others just haven't been entered yet.)
The South Sudan coins are pretty easily available now. I think they recently opened some more warehouses. Perhaps because it's good business for a poverty-struck nation like that!
Quote: "jokinen"The South Sudan coins are pretty easily available now. I think they recently opened some more warehouses. Perhaps because it's good business for a poverty-struck nation like that!
That makes a lot of sense, yes!
Actually, the €3 I paid for them was way up on the upper edge of what I could agree to pay for a single item (in this case, a set of coins). I kind of justified this one to myself by saying it was only €1 per coin, and in any case it wasn't like I could find them significantly cheaper.
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It's been awhile since I added a totally new country since my collection is fairly specific but I finally bought one of the Cecil Rhodes crowns from Southern Rhodesia!
5 more countries left till I have all of the post-USSR space covered. Not hard to find by any means, just that most of my budget is going toward earlier (and more interesting, imo) coinage.
Quote: "Houseofham"234. Uzbekistan
5 more countries left till I have all of the post-USSR space covered. Not hard to find by any means, just that most of my budget is going toward earlier (and more interesting, imo) coinage.
Back when I still participated in Secret Santa at AH.com, I tried to include a full country set of post-Soviet coins. Belarus was way out of my budget, of course, but I still managed to get (and send) coins from 15 different post-Soviet countries.
Next year, I decided to one-up that, and managed 16 (even though Belarus was still out).
I still don't have a Belarussian coin. I have coins from 15 other post-Soviet countries, however (I only had the one coin from the 16th country, which I wasn't very interested in anyway, because it was pretty much NCLT). Only have 11 listed, though - still hadn't entered any of my coins from the other four.
Quote: "Houseofham"234. Uzbekistan
5 more countries left till I have all of the post-USSR space covered. Not hard to find by any means, just that most of my budget is going toward earlier (and more interesting, imo) coinage.
Back when I still participated in Secret Santa at AH.com, I tried to include a full country set of post-Soviet coins. Belarus was way out of my budget, of course, but I still managed to get (and send) coins from 15 different post-Soviet countries.
Next year, I decided to one-up that, and managed 16 (even though Belarus was still out).
I still don't have a Belarussian coin. I have coins from 15 other post-Soviet countries, however (I only had the one coin from the 16th country, which I wasn't very interested in anyway, because it was pretty much NCLT). Only have 11 listed, though - still hadn't entered any of my coins from the other four.
Hmm... not sure how you got 16... There were only 15 constituent republics in Soviet Union, including Russia. Are you also counting unrecognized states like Nagorno-Karabakh or Transnistria?
I'm ignoring Belarussia for now, since they only issue NCLTs.
Quote: "Houseofham"234. Uzbekistan
5 more countries left till I have all of the post-USSR space covered. Not hard to find by any means, just that most of my budget is going toward earlier (and more interesting, imo) coinage.
Back when I still participated in Secret Santa at AH.com, I tried to include a full country set of post-Soviet coins. Belarus was way out of my budget, of course, but I still managed to get (and send) coins from 15 different post-Soviet countries.
Next year, I decided to one-up that, and managed 16 (even though Belarus was still out).
I still don't have a Belarussian coin. I have coins from 15 other post-Soviet countries, however (I only had the one coin from the 16th country, which I wasn't very interested in anyway, because it was pretty much NCLT). Only have 11 listed, though - still hadn't entered any of my coins from the other four.
Hmm... not sure how you got 16... There were only 15 constituent republics in Soviet Union, including Russia. Are you also counting unrecognized states like Nagorno-Karabakh or Transnistria?
I'm ignoring Belarussia for now, since they only issue NCLTs.
Exactly.
My first set included Transnistria (whose coins are very much circulating, even if they're technically an unrecognized country), my second set also included Nagorno-Karabakh (cheap NCLT that might or might not have briefly circulated).
I have plenty of coins from the former, and my only coin from the latter went in the gift it was bought for.
I really would need Abkhazia for a full set (and maybe a few other places), but their coins are very pricey (a lot more expensive than even those of Belarus), and in any case mostly obvious NCLT.
You mean places like Tannu Tuva and Khozerm/Khiva? As much as I'd like to get those, higher grades are too expensive for me and I've only seen a few of them ever come up for sale.
Didn't they launch (or expect to) a new set of coins intended to circulate?
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Quote: "Houseofham"You mean places like Tannu Tuva and Khozerm/Khiva? As much as I'd like to get those, higher grades are too expensive for me and I've only seen a few of them ever come up for sale.
I'm saying post-Soviet, not pre-Soviet, so more like Tatarstan, South Ossetia and Chechnya (maybe a few others I forgot). Most of them would be tokens, fantasies, or fantasy tokens, obviously (and mostly quite expensive as well).
I'd love to get a Tannu Tuva coin as well, but they're like orders of magnitude over my budget, even in lowest grades. Not interested enough in Khorezm to say more precisely, but it's probably similar.
I had a wonderful time at the TOREX this past weekend. Not only did I pick up several canadian silvers, I also finally opened my account in several new/old territories and countries viz New Foundland, New Brunswick, PEI, upper canada & Palestine. The last were particularly noteworthy because I managed to pick up 4 Palestinian coins (grades vary from vf to xf-) from bargain bins as low as $1 - $5 per piece
Apart from that, I picked up some german FRG & Empire coins which will go to narrowing the gap in that Country as well as some nice Egyptian commemorative coins!
French Indochina (1945 10 centimes), Oman (1999 25 baisa), Honduras (1992 1 centavo de lempira).
That's 172 countries listed in my collection now (there are also several dozen countries I have but hadn't entered yet).
Also, British Guiana (1838 one stiver token), which is totally not the same country as modern Guyana, despite the Numista catalogue's claims to the contrary.
And four days later, French cities (Evreux notgeld), Montenegro, Ruanda-Burundi (which should really be Rwanda-Burundi, that's what it says on their only type), Straits Settlements, and Netherlands East Indies.
I already had (yet-unentered) coins from Montenegro and NEI; the other three are actually new to my collection.
(Plus Muscat and Oman, which is somehow not a separate country.)
My Numista country count is now 177 (my actual country count is probably somewhere in the 230s, even ignoring the multiple German, Austrian and Italian states).
My Numista recognized list of countries is now at 298. Just today I added Sarawak, Geneva (Swiss Canton), Tibet, Caracas (Venezuela), and Boer Republic (South Africa).
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Another two days later: Guernsey, French West Africa (sadly the coin was damaged by solder), Estonia, Taiwan, Ecuador, Uruguay.
I know I already had a coin from Estonia, and I definitely didn't have anything from French West Africa. I'm not very sure on the other four.
Total 183 - inching towards the 200 country club ever so slowly.
Ecuador and Uruguay complete South America on my map; I only have Nicaragua to go to complete the American continent fully.
EDIT: In case you wonder, I think I'm only missing Qatar for Asia, 8 countries for Africa (but BCEAO and BEAC cover an awful lot of space), and 3 for Europe - but one of them is the ultra-rare Liechtenstein, which I'll probably never get. I expect to be able to complete (as far as the map is concerned) all the other continents eventually.
A re-cataloguing of a large bag of assorted coins (mostly purchases from 2011-13) gave me six "new" countries: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Sao Tome and Principe, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Croatia.
To clarify: those were all countries that were technically already represented in my collection, I just hadn't entered any of the corresponding coins in my Numista collection properly.
189 countries now (11 to go until 200 country club; with my budget attempts I might never be able to reach 300 country club).
And after an unrelated (so unrelated I didn't want to put it in the same post) and very unexpected visit to the numismatic section of a local newspaper stand, my most recent added country is Saint Helena, for a count of 190.
Their 50 pence coin commemorating the royal visit of Prince Andrew, plus two different Portuguese commemorative 200 escudos from 1992, cost me a total of $11. Which is an awful darn lot of money.
Darn it, coins in numismatic sections of newspaper stands are always overpriced, and I know they're overpriced, but somehow I far too often end up buying them anyway. No idea why.
Found a bag of assorted coins I didn't recall having (probably purchased at some point in the last 2-3 months).
Among the coins was a 5 centavos from Nicaragua - which is now country 191 in my Numista collection (and completes the entire American continent on my map).
I didn't know it was a token. They were minted by a private mint in England in order to supply much needed small change in the East Indies. This particular coin says 'Land of the Malays' on the rooster side, but the other side is not clear to me. A comparable Malacca type says 'Satu Keping' but this coin's legend is different. Anyone who knows what it says?
Some googling suggests the legend says Pulau Melayu, Island of the Malays, which points to Sumatra.
As of August 2, 2016 (after a coin shop visit on the 1st) - South Arabia and Cameroon are actual additions, while Ceylon and Kenya are "I had other coins from that country already, but didn't enter them into Numista" additions. (And I'm surprised that the 1971 coin was listed under Ceylon and not Sri Lanka, though looking at the coin I can understand why.)
Uzbekistan nearly joined the latter category, but unexplained type differences prevented me from entering the coin I wanted properly.
Sadly, the Togo coin turned out to be one of the "Togo" coins listed under French West Africa (why that series is not a separate country I have no idea), and I had a (completely unrelated) French West Africa coin already. Darn, and I paid almost $2 for it too...
195 countries now - hope to get to 200 this month (I won't be surprised if it happens this week).
Also exactly 1000 types, which is cool. But I'll probably have more than that in a few days, because I haven't really finished entering the coins I bought yesterday.
That French West Africa & Togo thing is indeed confusing. The reason is that Togo was a French mandate territory, and not a colony like French West Africa. It therefore had a separate status and for a while separate coins. When independence was planned for 1960 they started merging the coinages of the monetary union that would emerge and this is why the 1956 and later coins had both names on them.
I guess mine would be Mongolia. I looked for a Mongolian coin for quite some time but still hadn't found any yet.
I have no idea why, but these coins are pretty hard to find around here!
Luckaly I found an Ebay lot that consists of 17 different Mongolian coins. Two of them are from 1945 and the others are all aluminium and copper-nickel coins from 1959-1981. I think I might try to complete the circulation-issue series because I quite like them! :)
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Definitely didn't have before: Equatorial African states (and Cameroon)
Probably didn't have before, can't really recall: Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Congo DR
Definitely had before, just not entered: Rwanda, France - Feudal
201 countries now (finally over 200); looking forward to big coin market visit tomorrow morning, where that number will probably get higher.
Sudan, Congo, and Kenya from previous list covered up the remaining big gaps in my Africa map; now only need Western Sahara, Liberia, Ghana, Eritrea and Djibouti to cover map-Africa fully (and I think I already have Ghana and Eritrea).
Here's a picture of my Mongolian coins. I think they look kinda neat because the reverses have a very typical USSR-like look while the coat of arms on the obverse doesn't look communistic at all. It has the typical wheatstalks but also a very nice picture of a Mongolian horse rider.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
203. Byzantine Empire (new acquisition, but I've had other coins from there for a while)
204. Ghana (archive find, and I thought I've entered that coin already)
I still hope to reach 300 eventually, but there's a long way to go, unfortunately.
Finally added Laos (country 202), after attempting to get one in several different swaps that fell through for one reason or another. Found one in a bulk bin for 10 cents!
Finally bought a Danzig coin, for my 205th country.
The darn thing cost me $3 in very bad condition (can a cleaned coin be dirty?), and I probably overpaid, but there was nothing else of interest in the entire coin shop, and I didn't want to go several minutes out of the way for nothing. And I was looking for any Danzig coins for years, anyway.
