I need to get cracking on African and the middle east nations..
As you can see I collect mostly U.S., Canada and U.K....
But with my new goal of collecting my birth year from every nation,
I will fill this in quickly
My 2013 resolution is to concentrate on collecting a few territorities (Sarawak, Straits Settlements), so it will take longer to fill up the whole map.
Today: 562 coins: 252 different types from 82 countries
I've been amassing coins from my relatives for years and only started getting serious about 4 months ago; I got a big coin set for Christmas, which is kind of cheating, but I've almost achieved world domination!
"Your online collection contains 718 coins: 640 different types from 202 countries."
It has been fun trading with people and I hope to complete my map!
Wow! Some amazing collections here. Got a long way to go to collect 2 coins from every country listed here and more but I'm thoroughly enjoying the interaction and knowledge shared on this wonderful site.
Here's mine by type: 1538 coins - 1149 different types from 207 countries.
As a youngster, I like to find NZ pre-decimal and foreign coins that had made It's way into circulated coinage.
The thought of holding a object of the past with it's hidden history really intrigued me as a youngster...and still does.
And this is without your old Britsh coin, so at least +1 ;-)
I'm wondering who has the most different types in Numista. With my 10.000+ types I guess I should be somewhere in the top 10?
Numista team; are there some figures available? Most coin, most types, most countries?
Personally I rather would like to see the colors in percentages of coins available for each country.
For all who want this, I use a free program, Screenhunter, to take snapshots of the whole screen, rectangular area, or active window; that works very good, stays in memory, using few RAM, is configurable, and have good options; you can download at http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm If anyone needs help to download, install or configure, send me a message, I will be glad to help.
Just 10 options: you understand binary, or you don't.
Catalog Referee Coins, Banknotes & Exonumia: Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Zamunda, Parva Domus and more.
Cita: adanieluyFor all who want this, I use a free program [...] to take snapshots of [...] active window [...]
What's wrong with the built-in Alt-PrintScreen? There is also a bunch of free plugins available for all decent web browsers. (a "blue ugly E" is not on that list)
Cita: adanieluyFor all who want this, I use a free program [...] to take snapshots of [...] active window [...]
What's wrong with the built-in Alt-PrintScreen? There is also a bunch of free plugins available for all decent web browsers. (a "blue ugly E" is not on that list)
There is nothing wrong with it, but is just I have used this program for years, and I find comfortable with it, so I would like to share.
I like the way it works; while you can select the area you want to shot, directly from screen, no matter what's in it, even flash, scripts, etc. and you have it in copy board, if you want paste somewhere.
Is so easy tu use: you press F6 key, you get a cross-line cursor, then you click a a point of screen to be a corner of your shot, drag till the opposite corner, and release button, ScreenHunter stores the image, and you have a copy to paste where you want it. If you selected what you want capture, you don't need any edition of the image.
Also is very nice that you can choose to load it on every startup of computer, or just load it whenever you want and will stay in memory. Anyway you can unload it at the moment you want. As is an idependent program, is not like plugins, that are there all the time after you add them.
I think it is worth a try, maybe you like it.
Just 10 options: you understand binary, or you don't.
Catalog Referee Coins, Banknotes & Exonumia: Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Zamunda, Parva Domus and more.
Cita: adanieluyFor all who want this, I use a free program [...] to take snapshots of [...] active window [...]
What's wrong with the built-in Alt-PrintScreen? There is also a bunch of free plugins available for all decent web browsers. (a "blue ugly E" is not on that list)
If you use Windows 7, then it comes with a built in tool called "Snipping tool" which is quite nice. Just open the start menu and type "snippingtool" or go to Start --> Programs --> Accessories and you'll find it there.
Cita: harry213I need to get cracking on African and the middle east nations..
As you can see I collect mostly U.S., Canada and U.K....
But with my new goal of collecting my birth year from every nation,
I will fill this in quickly
My Update; As you can see below I've recently completed the Continent of South America and put a sizable dent in Africa and the Middle East Nations..... just as promised
I'm a fairly new collector, and only started seriously collecting a few months ago (and only joined the site today, actually).
NOTE: For Russia and the surrounding countries, its all U.S.S.R coins. As for Serbia and the surrounding countries, all Yugoslavia (except Slovenia, which I have 3 coins from).
"Give me a woman who loves beer, and I will conquer the world."-Kaiser Wilhelm I
I'm a fairly new collector, and only started seriously collecting a few months ago (and only joined the site today, actually).
NOTE: For Russia and the surrounding countries, its all U.S.S.R coins. As for Serbia and the surrounding countries, all Yugoslavia (except Slovenia, which I have 3 coins from).
Update: Added China, Germany, and Ireland.
"Give me a woman who loves beer, and I will conquer the world."-Kaiser Wilhelm I
Just started collecting world coins <6 months ago and have about hit a wall after 229 countries!!!
Does anyone know what the current Guinness Book of World Records for the collection of most country coins is?
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Thanks for the compliment. It's very interesting to me to learn the history behind the coins.
I'm behind in cataloging my coins, but slowly catching up.
Lots of German States, Chinese and Indian provinces to figure out.
Current tally is: 10356 coins: 4586 different types from 314 countries.
Thanks you two! I have recently been entering many coins to exchange/swap, and started with harder to identify (for me) types first. Last night, taking me over 5,000 coins, was a bag from 'Asia' e.g. Thailand, Japan, China etc. Tonight I will do the 'Arabic' bag e.g. United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan etc and the 'Russia' bag e.g. Czech, Hungary, Yugo etc.
I got many many coins at various times over months and years, and recently started first to put them at least into bags for roughly the right areas together. Now I am looking at them again and dividing into final countries. This morning I took this (also the copper hand-made maple leaf pictures) to show the bags left after all the above is done ...
Row 1 is 4 bags: U.S.A. / Canada / Ireland / Euro
Row 2 is 4 bags: Australia & New Zealand / Cyprus / Malaysia / Hong Kong
Row 3 is 1 bag: France only - there are so many coins!
The rest is 8 bags: Belgium / Italy / Germany / Portugal / Austria / Netherlands / Greece / Spain
So may take until Christmas, especially as I have my own spreadsheet to update, with other information. Final total may be towards 7,000 by then.
UPDATE: 4th June - now 7,849 coins for exchange - just the 200 or so to add which I got on Friday!
I have now done all 17 bags mentioned/shown above.
I still need quite a lot of coins from Africa, Oceania, South-Amerika and Asia. That's because I focus myself just on Europe. Ah well, I will probably complete those other countries in the future!
Grts, Lotus07
"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
Just started a month ago with coin collecting so I don't have that much coins.
Started with the euros (exchange from my wallet), now starting to expand the collection with Polish, old Belgium, and Old german coins. Got some South African coins last week!
More to come, I promise
Cita: Tusiyohow can it be possible to have 387 coins, 423 different types?
I think that the 387 coins are in the collection - then the 423 is total (collection and exchange).
Mine is worse - 'Your online collection contains 672 coins: 1258 different types from 147 countries'.
I always thought such information would be better on three lines - collection / exchange / combined.
I'm actually not sure which country was my 200th, though it would have been in some bulk I bought last weekend. Still need Mongolia, Greenland, Cambodia, North Korea and a good chunk of central Africa.
could be a fake, there are a lot around. The 1/2, 1, 2, 5 mark I would only purchase those from trusted sellers. The 1, 2, and 10 pfennig coins are much cheaper 1, 2 pfennig go for around 85-125 Euros for good ones 10 pfennig around 120-145 Euros for good ones.
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From time to time I sell some coins on Ebay make sure to follow me @apuking on Ebay.
Yep, it's my goal to get some of them. I've got a whole lot of the Papua New Guinea and I'm working on the Teritory of New Guinea coins, working my way backwards in time. I just picked up the last TNG shilling I needed along with my first penny the other day.
02.dec.12
Your online collection contains 12934 coins: 3940 different types from 257 countries.
You currently have 5899 coins to exchange.
today
Your online collection contains 16434 coins: 5460 different types from 302 countries.
You currently have 5822 coins to exchange.
all by amount of different coins
I began to sort out some of my swap coins
I had thousands of the same coin type (US cents, British pence, Danish oere, Netherlands cents, Greek drachmen, Turkish lira, Italian lire,...) and discarded them.
They are in a briefcase at the moment thats weight must be around 20 kg and I don't know yet, what to do with it.
Your online collection contains 693 coins: 1325 different types from 151 countries.
You currently have 8001 coins to exchange.
I finished last night adding all the coins I mentioned earlier, so I have no more to add. Luckily they took me over 8,000 total; in a few days that will go down as I have current swaps to remove.
P.S. I have about 2,000 scrap coins - I have not included them on here so I probably have ten thousand coins altogether.
Here's my map. Have 244 countries according to the site map. Missing Greenland, Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen, Pitcairn Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Liechtenstein.
My collection is relatively new as you can all see..
And about the Greenland thing, I guess the reason is because they use Danish krones over there, and the original Greenlandic krones were long ago..making them rare..
Cita: rachellebBeen collecting (very casually!) for around 2 years. I only have 84 coins but I think I've got a pretty good variety going on!
I posted this less than a year ago... I've more than doubled my collection (I have 218 different coins now), and I'm excited to see a lot of those gray areas getting filled in with colour!