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I added Western Sahara to bring my total to 278. Western Sahara Peseta coins are a bit of a corner case though. Are these really used for circulation in Polisario territories?
I just got a full set of Lithuanian coins, 6 centas coins and 3 litas. They're all just modern circulation but I love them anyway. They're close to uncirculated in quality. I'll have to work on getting some older ones in the future.
Danish West Indies 1860, 1 cent
Every single coin on the world should meet its collector!
Denier from Brittany, a few days ago.
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Moldova!

Apart from historical ones, only few Europe countries (which I collect) are remaining - Greenland, Albania, Faroe Islands and Belarus + Crete and Ionian Islands, but I believe these will be little tougher.
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Historical ones... Like mine?
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Well, yes. I want everything that was used/is used in Europe. I only added Greenland - because it is European historically and excluded those small states that only try to make money on coins for collectors and also contemporary Russia.
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You should include maybe Svalbard/Spitsbergen Arctic Coal tokens, even from a Russian company these tokens seemed to be intended to circulate inside these settlements. However they are not easy to find. Like Brittany/Lorraine (last one quite easy for me) but more historical as medieval duchies.
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon - and rather bizarrely for a coin with a mintage of only 600,000 I received one in an eBay lot and picked one out of a bargain bin on the very same day.

Also Malta, French Indochina, German East Africa, East Africa, and Isle of Man.
British North Borneo and Serbia.
HoH
Fiji to make 99 countries!!!

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces81123.html
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.  It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so.  Mark Twain
248. German East Africa
North Korea
M.Babic
New countries from a swap: Botswana (125) and Slovenia (126).
I just added 2 new countries: French Equatorial Africa and Sao Tome & Principe to make my total 238. These were my first new countries in months. How am I ever going to get to 300?????
Quote: "barnaked"​I just added 2 new countries: French Equatorial Africa and Sao Tome & Principe to make my total 238. These were my first new countries in months. How am I ever going to get to 300?????

That will be close to impossible with only serious coins.
I got very lucky and was able to score an 1896 Puerto Rico 10 cent coin. This raises my collection number to 226 nations.
Namibia
Trade only within the US.
It was hard to add any new country to my collection and now it is even harder with an undervaluated Mexican Peso; it is like having to pay a 30% tax in relation to 18 months ago...
Currently I returned to other hobbies and been doing fine even when buying from Amazon or eBay because thankfully items under 50 dollars are tax-free on import.
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History through coins.
Eli V
Quote: "Ghawk97"​I got very lucky and was able to score an 1896 Puerto Rico 10 cent coin. This raises my collection number to 226 nations.

Nice! Puerto Rico is still an empty slot for me.
Quote: "jokinen"
Quote: "Ghawk97"​I got very lucky and was able to score an 1896 Puerto Rico 10 cent coin. This raises my collection number to 226 nations.
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​Nice! Puerto Rico is still an empty slot for me.
​It is a rather rare and expensive one to get, but you just never know when the right time will come for you to get it.
Poland-Lithuania silver to bring me to 288. 300 still looks far away, though. Visiting Puerto Rico at the end of the year, maybe a LCS can set me up with a pre-U.S. PR coin!
Just yesterday I was lamenting the fact that I finally scored a couple of new countries after months of a dry spell. Today I pulled a Katanga 5 Franc out of a $2 bin for my 239th country. Woo hoo.
Added a first coin from Macau, thanks to a swap with Cobra.

181 countries now :)
I just added my first coin from French Indo-China a week or so ago

this one here

Macau, Ottoman Empire, Sarawak, Austrian Netherlands, Russia - Empire, and four new German states - all from the bargain bin.
I must be living right. Found a 1907 1 chon Korea at a flea market for country 240.
Just under the wire.....9 more countries to make 108.

Armenia, Central Africa, Ceylon, Honduras, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Nepal, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Thank you so much doc_man!!!!
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.  It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so.  Mark Twain
Added Ruanda-Urundi, San Marino, Monaco and Indian Princely States to the collection in the past month.
Cambodian coins from 1994.
Newest country for me and the first for a very long time now..
Gold Coast

Waiting for 3 new incoming countries:
  • Guinea
  • Roman Provinces
  • Zanzibar
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Guinea: done
Zanzibar: done
Unexpected income: Yemen Arab Republic
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The last country I added to my collection was a 1948 Franc from Cameroon.
A nice swap just added Bolivia, Cyprus, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, and Sierra Leone for me. Now up to 137 countries - looks like I will hit my 2016 goal of 150 countries early! :`
249. Gambia
250. South Arabia
251. Qatar & Dubai
252. Myanmar
253. Ottoman Empire
241. Marshall islands
242. New Hebrides
243. Argentine provinces (Buenos Aires)
Roman Provinces: done
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284. Zanzibar 283. Congo Free State
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Bahrain and Saudi Arabia bring me up to 139.
Quote: "Jesse11"​Saint Pierre and Miquelon - and rather bizarrely for a coin with a mintage of only 600,000 I received one in an eBay lot and picked one out of a bargain bin on the very same day.
Jesse11 (thanks!) was willing to swap his spare franc with me, so now I added Saint Pierre and Miquelon to my tally.
I've already hit my 2016 goal of 150 countries as of a recent swap and some "junk bin" picks. Guess I need to set a new goal for the year! :O

I added British West Africa, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Guadeloupe (:8D), Guernsey, Jordan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Namibia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
301. French cities (Cette)
302. Vietnam - Empire
303. Spanish Netherlands
304. Central American Republic
305. Siberia (in the mail and on the way)
Congratulations, you're eligible to join the 300 countries club.
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244. New Guinea
Quote: "SRV5490"​301. French cities (Cette)
​302. Vietnam - Empire
​303. Spanish Netherlands
​304. Central American Republic
​305. Serbia (in the mail and on the way)
​You didn't have Serbia until now!? Country 305? Wow! B.:O
The same for French cities, French notgelds are quite easy to find
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Wow, I meant Siberia and not Serbia.
Bargain bin finds added China - Republic, Italian States (Lombardy - Venetia), Madagascar, Malay Peninsula, and Myanmar, bringing me to 155.
254. China-Republic
255. Zanzibar
I added a 5Fr Katanga in the last swaps to bring my total to 215 countries. I realized I haven't listed my Yugoslavia and Serbian coins on numista; and now I'm eyeing some Palestinian coins. So I can see my collection quickly notching up to 217 countries.

On a side note, I got my very first Edward VIII coin from east Africa. That's a pretty big deal for me but alas numista doesn't count that as something different
Albania, Aruba, French West Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, and United Arab Emirates bring me up to 161 countries.
Last adition: Mali
Total countries: 238
Just added

306. Swiss cantons (Vaud)
307. Central Asia (Bukhara)
Quote: "SRV5490"​Central Asia (Bukhara)
​What is this "Central Asia"? Was it really an area called that? I mean, shouldn't Bukhara be listed under Uzbekistan?
Personally I list Bukhara as its own country in my collection (spreadsheet).
Quote: "SRV5490"​Personally I list Bukhara as its own country in my collection (spreadsheet).

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic43799.html

This WCC topic gives some background to Bukhara and other Central Asian Khanates. My personal preference would be to have Bukhara listed separately.
Vietnam and Iraq
Picked up Bangladesh, Nigeria, and France - Kingdom (a coin from 1643!) from the junk bins today, bringing me to 164.
My friend from Croatia just sent me this set. Thanks Sinisa!!




*Not the newest country to my collection but the newest set.
Niue brings me to 245 countries.
308. Lorraine
309. Liechtenstein
Picked up a couple of coins from Bhutan out of a junk bin. Brings me to 246.
256. Chad
North Borneo is my 286 country according to Numista.
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310. Cilician Armenia
311. Crimea
Sealand. I hate myself.
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289. PALAU
290. Austrian Netherlands
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#269: Phoenician cities (bought last year but finally ID last week)
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Ionian Islands 1851 Lepton
coin collecting is fun.
Torex Show in Toronto made me "impusle buy" this Bolivia silver...

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.  It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so.  Mark Twain
New country, finally! :D

Niger, 10 Francs 1968
Junk bin coins added Angola, Belgian Congo, Danzig :8D, Estonia, French Equatorial Africa, Guinea, Libya, and Malaya, bringing me to 172.
a 1945 mozambique 50 centavos.

paid too much for it,though
coin collecting is fun.
I just added to my collection
-Uzbekistan
-Armenia
-Eritrea
One of my coins moved to the newly-created British East Indies (#270) but its existence remains fragile.
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Quote: "chomp-master"​One of my coins moved to the newly-created British East Indies (#270) but its existence remains fragile.
​Huh - so did one of mine, but it means I no longer have any Malay Peninsula coins!
Mine was not from the Peninsula but from Netherlands East Indies, as initially misclassified. Fortunately I own another NEI coin to keep this country.
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I added Alderney, Gibraltar, and Tristan Da Cunha thanks to a swap with Hambi:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12845.html - complete with first day cover and five stamps.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9530.html - 1970

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18961.html - sealed on a presentation card.
Hello, just added two coins from Montenegro.
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312. Korea (Kingdom)
313. Greece (ancient)
circa 335. South Sudan, 10 piastres 2015 (including a few doubles).

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces75281.html
278. Argentine provinces
#173 - Picked up Rwanda in a swap.
Roman Empire! So happy because of it!
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314. France - Feudal (CGKL# 666)

I believe this coin is KM# 5 in the 1601-1700 Krause catalog.
Picked up a French Somaliland 1 franc from a junk bin for #174. I really have a soft spot for all those French colonial aluminum coins with engravings by Lucien Bazor. I always make an exception to my "pre-1950" cutoff and grab them out of the bins whenever I find them.
And now a swap brings me up to 177 with Cameroon (another great L. Bazor design), Kazakhstan, and Palestine.
It's been ages since I've been at the intersection of interesting and within budget.
Received this weekend, my first coin from Lithuania 1570 two Denar.

I'm really happy with this little guy.
Picked up a French Equatorial Africa in a $1 grab bag of 10 coins at a coin swap. I saw the obverse and bought the bag. An unexpected, but pleasant find.
Picked up 3 new countries today. Belgian Congo, German East Africa, and Togo to make 249 total.
Picked up a Republic of China coins from the coin store.
A couple of more new countries from the bulk bins: China - Japanese Puppet States and an unidentified 16th century Spanish Netherlands coin, which will bring me to 179.
257. Malaya
after a long time a few new ones:
São Tomé and Príncipe, Mongolia and Austrian States (Salzburg) now on 161
Finally got North Korea, Suriname, Chad, and Bhutan. Got a 11 more till I'm at 200!
315. Scotland
316. Malay Peninsula
317. Italian Somaliland (1913 / 2 Bese)
233. Rhodesia and Nyasaland
HoH
Picked up a British Honduras coin yesterday.
77. Ceylon.

This game is hard (or expensive) when you only collect silver coins. Two of my countries are non-silver, China - Empire and Malaya.

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