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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: Triggersmob on August 11, 2015, 11:47:24 PM
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Yesterday I received some coins from Guinea.
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Also received some from Mongolia.
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Congratulation Mr. Steve. Nice coins. Where I can find complet list of world countries ?
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Congratulation Mr. Steve. Nice coins. Where I can find complet list of world countries ?
Just Google it Erik. There are a few lists out there.
Numista has a list and C.I.A. has a list, that's 2 that come to mind.
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A "complete list of countries" is a surprisingly difficult object to find. That's why every "list of countries" you might find on the Internet - or even on the coin forums - will be slightly different.
What, exactly, is a "country"? What do you include on the list, and what don't you? Do you include rebel/secessionist states? And as a coin collector, we deal with historic objects; it is not hard to obtain coins issued by countries that no longer exist or have significantly changed form since the coin was issued. What do you do with those? Coins go back a long, long time - before the invention of the "country" in the modern sense. What do you do with ancient Greek city-state coinages, or coins from German feudal states - does every single one of them count as a separate "country"? There were thousands of each of them.
The CIA Factbook list (and the Wikipedia list that uses the same data) is a list of all currently existing officially recognized countries, de-facto independent countries and dependent states; not all of these issue their own coins, so the list will have to be modified to exclude those. The Numista list is an attempt (albeit an incomplete one) to list all countries and other coin-issuing entities that have ever issued a coin.
In short, a "list of countries" can be as long or as short as you want it to be. If your intent is to make a list that you consider an achievable "goal" to aim to "complete", then you probably want to consider a list that's as short and simple as possible. Personally, I consider my "list of countries" as a journey, not a destination; it is always expanding as I buy new coins from places I've never heard of before.
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Yes, I agree. It imay be very different. I would like such "list of countries" according to Krause catalog but I would like all those countries written to Excel or Word program. Do you have this ? So I can to choose countries what I have or not.
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My list of countries is based on current countries only. I don't collect ancient coins, so I have no need to worry about the old ones.
Sorry, Erik I don't have a list stored, but you could copy and paste one from the internet.
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Erik, I just emailed you a list of 401 countries taken from Numista in Excel, I hope it will be useful to you.
I actually sent it twice as I have 2 different Email addresses for you.
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Nevol,
Why not attach the file so anyone can download it? Nudge nudge, wink wink! ;D
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Nevol,
Why not attach the file so anyone can download it? Nudge nudge, wink wink! ;D
That would be great. 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Erik, I just emailed you a list of 401 countries taken from Numista in Excel, I hope it will be useful to you.
I actually sent it twice as I have 2 different Email addresses for you.
Thank you very much. It is what I want. I use only email address what I have here (http://knightsofthecointable.com/membersforum2/index.php?action=profile;u=174).
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Tried to attach it, would not let me, only certain types of files can be attached, not Excel. So it's now a Word Document.
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Thanks Nancy ;D That works just as well for me. 8) 8)