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
Update 2017 January the first.
413 countries : 6 with no collector, 159 with at least one collector
and 248 countries in common
One new member in the club. Now 24 members.
From 24th October 2016 to 1st January 2017:
Abkhazia (the return)
Burgundian Netherlands
China ancient
Duchy of Courland
Indo-Parthian Kingdom
Indo-Sasanian Kingdom
We get now 413 countries
Congratulations to three members who have catched these following countries that are not black anymore:
Belgium – Feudal (NIGLO)
Burgundian Netherlands (eug)
Celtic Britain (eug)
Iles de France et Bonaparte (NIGLO)
Moravia (Redgie)
We changed leader and we get two members who succeed the feat of being the only owners of a country (brown country) and still miss a blue country
These following countries have been renamed:
India-Republic → India
Indian states → Indian states and kingdoms (jeopardizing a part of india-ancient)
East Timor → Timor Leste
Duplicate countries as Burma, Bourbon Island , Great Britain, Svalbard, Tanganyika have been suppressed.
And "Spanish States" is now limited to coins before the end of the XVth century.
Thanks for all the updates. Hopefully one day I will get there. At 256 right now, hoping to add a few more new countries with trades going on right now.
I was wondering, how many Numista users are not listed as members of the "300 countries club" but still have coins from over 300 countries? Is there a way to gather those statistics from the site?
Verweis : "asimov37"Hi all,
actually 349 countries in my Numista collection.
Could I join your club ?
220 swaps, more than 20,000 coins
No, you're not allowed to join the club, you exceed all quota limits
I am kidding of course
Did you find this incredible amount of coins in one of the many castles that surround you and which allowed the "Val de Loire" to be inscribed on the List of World Heritage of UNESCO ?
So welcome on board, beware the luggage weight limit ...
Getting closer and closer... 19 countries missing.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
It was not in my plans to collect countries but it's getting really hard and expensive to complete Paraguay (missing almost all gold coins and the Saez 4 centesimos) so this is getting fun.
Now 279 and around 11 in the way.
i'm missing some real easy countries (Irak, Aruba,Kuwait)
Sorry no Swaps. Paraguay Post Office is to risky and they don't allow to send coins nor notes
Verweis : "chomp-master"Getting closer and closer... 19 countries missing.
Hey, let see your collection
You are not the kind of guy to let you tempt by the jewels of countries with currencies that do not circulate. Some call them "token countries" like Hutt River, Marshall Islands etc ... but ... some days ... it will come ...
You have very difficult countries like: Hispania ancient, Cicilian Armenia, Carthage etc ...
And there are just a few omissions that will give you easy access to the 300's club
See this following list with comments :
Central African Republic You'd rather look for "Centrafrique", it's half the price, as for each French speaking country
Comoro Islands See comment above
Dutch Republic
Equatorial Guinea
India - Dutch The best solution is to get a "French India catch" from Pondichery when it was Under Dutch domination
India - Mughal Empire
India - Portuguese
Indian states and kingdoms
Kyrgyzstan Are you aware that USSR is not existing anymore ?
Malay peninsula The costless coins are the "Tin Pitis" from the "Palembang Sultanate". Well ... it's rather the Malay Archipelago than Malay Peninsulate, but who cares ?
Mali
Martinique
Nagorno-Karabakh Hey! It's not a token country ! Getting a coin from them is a commitment of political support !
Ruanda-Burundi
South Arabia
Spain - Civil War
Spanish Netherlands
Tajikistan See previous comment
Transnistria Well ... when you discuss with Kundik, a member of Numista, you understand that it's a country, with circulating coins. And this country will last a while ...
Uzbekistan See comment above
Yemen - People's Democratic Republic Isn't it nice to get this envelop in his collection ?
Yemenite states
Verweis : "JRo69"I am not sure why North Korea is in the purple category. More than 23 members have coins from this country.
Only one member of the club is missing North Korea. Surely an oversight, or ... he waits to get a coin that really circulated in North Korea and it's more difficult to get than the bunch of coins which never circulated that are on sale from this country.
North Korea is a dictator run slave labor country. Phooey!
I looked at the black list, none of those interest me.
Some of the other countries that promote and send terrorists around the world also do not interest me.
Other countries that do not let women have equal rights do not interest me.
Good luck selling those coins.
I've an issue with the French post making me getting slower than before. I don't want to see my packages stolen.
I'm absolutely not fan of micronations. And even for other "token countries" which are not micronations, they're more expensive than what I try to take: cheap modern countries or territories.
Cilician Armenia was a lucky find on eBay. Carthage and Hispania are part of my passion for Antique countries, but others I don't have yet are mostly expensive.
For remaining countries: either I don't find them or they're overrated on eBay when tracking them.
PS: you're speaking to the fool who wanted and finally succeeded to restore Abkhazia, another politically-oriented country/territory, thanks to the new system we finally implemented
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Verweis : "JRo69"I am not sure why North Korea is in the purple category. More than 23 members have coins from this country.
Only one member of the club is missing North Korea. Surely an oversight, or ... he waits to get a coin that really circulated in North Korea and it's more difficult to get than the bunch of coins which never circulated that are on sale from this country.
I am sorry. I misunderstood. These are stats for members of the 300 Club, not overall Numista membership.
I have several nations in the lists, but not 300 nations total. Someday soon I hope to a member of this club. Thanks for the clarification.
Verweis : "eug"Hering congratulations. welcome to the club. What "black countries" do you have?
I also recently added the "black country" Etruria and am waiting for validation of my coin from Aksum.
Thanks! Oh, I saw that Dafur coins are only fantasy issues. But I own Abkhazia coins silver 10 Psark and expecting the new serie of 1 Psark coins (although it's discussed also as fantasy issues, they have the same position as Transnistria)
Four new members in a row Chuck, with 315 countries, from Alabama, showing the way to the next whisky bar ... Hering with 315 countries from Hamburg, the city of the water woman batz, a swiss with 331 countries, who seems to have more than one blade to his knife
And now the gaucho andysla, as impetuous as Iguazu falls, our first member of South America !
Congratulations to all, it will do me some work to update the statistics
Verweis : "Frenchlover"Four new members in a row
Chuck, with 315 countries, from Alabama, showing the way to the next whisky bar ...
Hering with 315 countries from Hamburg, the city of the water woman
batz, a swiss with 331 countries, who seems to have more than one blade to his knife
And now the gaucho andysla, as impetuous as Iguazu falls, our first member of South America !
Congratulations to all, it will do me some work to update the statistics
THANKS!!!
it was not in my plans to collect countries but it's getting hard and to expensive to complete all the Paraguay Coins and this is really fun
Sorry no Swaps. Paraguay Post Office is to risky and they don't allow to send coins nor notes
The highly expensive "Netherlands West Indies" has been definitively incorporated and there is a new country that points the tip of its nose : "Yugoslavia - Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovènes" and what about bosnians ?
The 2nd Yugoslav country was unauthorized and moved to Yugoslavia.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Verweis : "Frenchlover"The highly expensive "Netherlands West Indies" has been definitively incorporated and there is a new country that points the tip of its nose : "Yugoslavia - Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovènes" and what about bosnians ?
I noticed that only one coin is listed for the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the Numista catalog. Should all the coins dated 1920 & 1925 be listed here. That would be KM#1 - KM#7.
If you really want it to be restored, feel free to ask for a request on the catalog forum.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
chomp-master, when do you think you will validate my Aksum coin so that we can eliminate another "black" country before frenchlover updates the club statistics?
Even unvalidated, your coin is watchable on your coin list.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
I think that even unvalidated, your country will appear as yours on your own listings, and Frenchlover should see it as well.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Since this is the only coin I have from Aksum, I can not enter it in the catalog because it is not in the catalog yet, so it will not show that I have any coins from Aksum.
But cabinda like the new "coins" from Greenland,Galapagos,Keeling and Cocos, Katanga and many more are fantasy issues.
Abkhazia, transinistia you may have and argue
Sorry no Swaps. Paraguay Post Office is to risky and they don't allow to send coins nor notes
You are right. I was being a little facetious. I have coins from some questionable countries which I acquired in the past such as Hutt River but have chosen not to buy from others in the future such as Abhazia, Sealand, Seborga, etc.
Verweis : "chomp-master"Getting closer and closer... 19 countries missing.
Hey, let see your collection
You are not the kind of guy to let you tempt by the jewels of countries with currencies that do not circulate. Some call them "token countries" like Hutt River, Marshall Islands etc ... but ... some days ... it will come ...
You have very difficult countries like: Hispania ancient, Cicilian Armenia, Carthage etc ...
And there are just a few omissions that will give you easy access to the 300's club
See this following list with comments :
Central African Republic You'd rather look for "Centrafrique", it's half the price, as for each French speaking country
Comoro Islands See comment above
Dutch Republic
Equatorial Guinea
India - Dutch The best solution is to get a "French India catch" from Pondichery when it was Under Dutch domination
India - Mughal Empire
India - Portuguese
Indian states and kingdoms
Kyrgyzstan Are you aware that USSR is not existing anymore ?
Malay peninsula The costless coins are the "Tin Pitis" from the "Palembang Sultanate". Well ... it's rather the Malay Archipelago than Malay Peninsulate, but who cares ?
Mali
Martinique
Nagorno-Karabakh Hey! It's not a token country ! Getting a coin from them is a commitment of political support !
Ruanda-Burundi
South Arabia
Spain - Civil War
Spanish Netherlands
Tajikistan See previous comment
Transnistria Well ... when you discuss with Kundik, a member of Numista, you understand that it's a country, with circulating coins. And this country will last a while ...
Uzbekistan See comment above
Yemen - People's Democratic Republic Isn't it nice to get this envelop in his collection ?
Yemenite states
See you soon in the club
You forgot 2 easy ones: Zaire and China - ancient. Both arrived yesterday (China is still waiting for me as the ring didn't work and this one arrived by signed letter).
So, my count says 18 countries missing, and will say 17 in a few hours.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
China addition will take a few more time as encountering an issue with Western Han coinage. I'll try to work on asap, but we can consider me at 283.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Any members of the club achieve the 300 countries goal without any non-circulating legal tender coins or those from the so-called "micronations". Probably not as challenging as Peter M. Graham's goal of 300 countries with only pre-1961 issues.
I will have to look through my collection to see how many countries I have not counting non-circulating coins. Will also see how many not counting newer than 1961. Could take some time but should be interesting.
I just checked and I only have 4 NCLT's but only two count towards my country total of 340. They are Western Sahara and Tristan da Cunha. I don't plan on acquiring anymore NCLT's and I do not own or plan to own any coins from micronations.
I have 42 NCLT coins in my country count. That means that I have 358 countries not counting NCLT. As soon as chompmaster approves my coin from Mauretania (ancient), I will have 359.
I do not have Micronations, Lundy, Sealand, and Seborga, and do not plan on getting them. I also do not plan on getting Abkhazia.
In the current list of countries, there are 13 that I do not have .Here is my list and comments.
Probably never going to get one (7)
Gold Coast $1500 +
Iles de France et Bonaparte $1800 +
Mesopotamia (ancient) $$$ and hard to find
Russian Caucasia $1200 +
Egypt (ancient) $$$ and hard to find
Livonia and Estonia $400 +
Darfur Have never seen one for sale
Need to find the right deal (2)
Senegal
Netherlands West Indies
Not interested in getting (4)
Probably not countries but coin issuing entities
Abkhazia
Lundy
Sealand
Seborga
As soon as the countries from Jarcek's list are added I will have something else to chase. I hope they are not all pricey like Frenchlover's examples from Tobago.
edit: It looks like they will all be expensive and hard to find.
It goes slowly, as system needs some time to respond to changes - which means I cannot react if I am doing something wrong. But British Virgin Islands already have a section, which means Tortola should show up there too soon.
Sad but unable to add a #284 as the coin to be stolen on its way
The coin was an English silver penny.
PS: I'll have a better visibility on my current request list as promoting highly-requesting country referees like Ancient Rome, Roman Provinces, Gaul and Byzantium Empire (in French for all of them and also English for Rome).
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Hello fellow coin collectors. I am happy to say that a few days ago I reached a milestone of 322 countries. My collection is less than 20 years in the making however dates from 100 B.C. lol.... Would be honored to enjoy your club.
KYakov
I just collect circulation coins only so reaching 300 countries could be little bit more difficult but finally reached 301 countries (after deducting 1 country being verified in new coin posting; and 1 country got tokens only).
Still two more countries in transit, Lorraine and Mexico-Revolution.
to three members who have catched these following countries that are not black anymore:
