300 Countries club - the 2017 blog

Verweis : "Tovarich"​I meant to join and never did. But now I've dropped from 359 to 259. Oh well.

​I really wanted to join, but got stuck at 293 (and now have 233).

Verweis : "phfoticus"​

Verweis : "SRV5490"​
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Verweis : "You don't have to go by what Numista designates as a country. "You don't have to go by what Numista designates as a country.

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​The 300 Countries club is a Numista concept, so I believe we do have to go by Numista countries/sections, etc. I suppose they'll have to rename the club to something like the "250 Country Club" or the "300 Section Club", or (if things get broken down far enough) the "500 Section Club".
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​My own collection is organized by issuing authorities, which would include things like US/Connecticut, US/Massachusetts, Philippines(Spain), Philippines(US), Philippines, etc., only some of which are recognized by Numista. ​

​You only have to follow along if you want to belong to the 300 club I guess. Otherwise count the countries as you see them and not how someone dictates them to you.

Thank you Jarek. You are awesome! I am excited for the tier 3 countries!

Folks, collect for fun, not for the numbers!

I had almost 280 countries and understood that collecting Seborga, Sealand etc won't make me happier despite incrementing the counter... Collect with your heart!

I am still a 65 km way....I had to go more 348 kms.

Nice!
There is an upheaval

Still some corrections ongoing.
I propose some:

1) Trying to regroup some countries to clarify might be a good evolution. Then it might be interesting to call these groups as they are: Groups, groupings, regions, sets, ensembles, agregates, areas etc...

Then they are entities in these groups that we are used to name "countries" that are called now "sections". These entities are well determined in the space geography/hystory. The word "section" is not so precise.

So I propose to name the groups as GROUPS or AREAS, and sections still get the name of COUNTRIES or ENTITIES
And in our own profile please show together our "Groups number" and "Countries number".

At least, you won't have to change the paragraph "View the country list with your collection quantities."
And by the way, does anybody care about his own number of coins of a group ?

2) Then what do we want to group ?
Are there historical groups or geographic groups, or vaguely a mix of history and geography, or a mess ?
Why the "French Colonies" is in the area "France" and not French West Africa ? Why "British west indies" in the area "UK" and not all other former british territories ?
You might group also "Rhodesia & Nyasaland" current countries, same for Korea. The group "Bohemia" includes now "Moravia" but not "Bohemia and Moravia" etc ....
So you can make any grouping you want, this is of little importance, we'll not enter "France" when we want to look at "St pierre et Miquelon",
but please,
let us play
with
our
Countriezzzz.

Main goal is to give historical entities countrylike listing so they will stop being listed as currencies.

I agree that sections might not be the best way of naming. With groups however, that is problematic, especially coming with good criteria about how we should divide them.

Verweis : "Jarcek"​Main goal is to give historical entities countrylike listing so they will stop being listed as currencies.

Please expand your argumentation

German states are best example, independent countries lumped into one country, all together equal to Tonkin? Not anymore.

For those who were counting countries, just look at sections count. That shows all the countries and there will be many more. Country count is for bigger groups.

I think its an extension from the idea of a country to a wider view of coin issuing entity.
back to the example of for example German states, usually it is a single country that mints their coins but some places in the past such as the German States, the country was split up by several States, cities and bishoprics that enjoyed their independence with sometimes their own ruler under the Holy Roman Empire.
Many of these Cities, States, Bishoprics... had the right to mint their own coins.

Different topic for Jarek, on the french side there seems to be some confusion.
do we have someone that will explain the changes that have and will be made?

Verweis : "apuking"​I think its an extension from the idea of a country to a wider view of coin issuing entity.
​back to the example of for example German states, usually it is a single country that mints their coins but some places in the past such as the German States, the country was split up by several States, cities and bishoprics that enjoyed their independence with sometimes their own ruler under the Holy Roman Empire.
​Many of these Cities, States, Bishoprics... had the right to mint their own coins.
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​Different topic for Jarek, on the french side there seems to be some confusion.
​do we have someone that will explain the changes that have and will be made?
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​My colleague, Pejounet is not here at the moment. Any my French is non existent. Could you please translate my last two messages from here and post it here: https://fr.numista.com/forum/topic61822.html

I would be most thankful.

Now it's really hard to have 300 Countries.
my new count is 252 Countries and 344 Sections.
I believe most of us will be out if we count the new definition of country by numista

Verweis : "andysla"​Now it's really hard to have 300 Countries.
​my new count is 252 Countries and 344 Sections.
​I believe most of us will be out if we count the new definition of country by numista

​it's not possible. Only 289 available 'countries' in the country list now

I suspect the 300 countries club will have to split into 250 "new" countries club and 400 sections club

Or it could just include countries/sections up to second level only (by which system I currently have, I believe, 292). It would be hard to estimate, however.

500 sections club sounds good

Countre 253 - Seccion 352
Kingdom of Numidia

Verweis : "Frenchlover"​Lets see the list of unusual countries.
​No member of the "300 countries club" gets coins from countries in black
​Then in decreasing order of difficulty, colors switch down to the purple haze.
​Only one member doesn't own a purple country, so, they are easier to catch
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​Update 2017 January the first.
​413 countries : 6 with no collector, 159 with at least one collector
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​and 248 countries in common
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​One new member in the club. Now 24 members.
​From 24th October 2016 to 1st January 2017:
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​312 -> 311 - 007mat (France)
​343->346 - addrr (France)
​318 - Al Louarn (Brittany)
​314 -> 316 - alamir (Germany)
​327 - auctionking65 (USA)
​314 -> 316 - billymac11 (USA)
​312 - Chasinva69 (USA)
​387 - Erdvilla (Mexico)
​369 -> 392 - eug (USA)
​338 ->339 - Frenchlover (France)
​361 - geraltttt82 (Poland)
​322 - jadejackal (USA)
​315 -> 321 - jelle (The Netherlands)
​335 - loran34 (France)
​323 -> 326 - mic-w-nl (The Netherlands)
​305 -> 309 - muzz0000 (New Zealand)
​310 -> 311 - Myeackle (USA)
​359 -> 363 - NIGLO (France)
​331 -> 333 - Numismaticroy (UK)
​336 - Pott (USA)
​ 329 - Redgie (Canada)
​330 -> 331 - SRV5490 (USA)
​320 -> 324 - sujit_kumar (USA)
​338 -> 336 - Yorkie (UK)

​Very nice work congradulation for that work. Will that list be updated under the new patern of countries soon. Thanks

We're not in a hurry to create a new issuer's club in addition there are some grumpy ones who dedicate to public obloquy this kind of performance

For the moment the holy roman empire is leading the edge, let see what will give the split of Islamic states, India princely states, sultanate states and kingdoms ...

I have got to 300 today.

Hello.

I expanded the work that you make for countries. Now I consider issuers in the search.

This is the link to the post:

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic89362.html#p755996

Nice work indeed

I expanded the work.

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic98275.html

Is it time to a new 300 country Club? Perhaps an issuer Club.

Hello there!

Country club folks - here is something that might interest you. https://en.numista.com/forum/topic120196.html