Those last few difficult common countries
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For me it would have to be the Congo Free State; some of their coins are really expensive (think the 5 franc!) but the lower denominations should be fairly cheap despite the fact that a majority of their mintage was melted- and yet it took me until March to finally get one.
Otherwise I actually did a pretty good job getting "hard to get" countries; my proudest are Kiau Chau (found in junk bin) and Italian Eritrea (a nice Tallero I got cheap). Right now I am looking for Italian Somaliland (just passed on a 1915 Rupee), and Lundy, which is a mircostate off the coast of England- thought I should get some of their coins, since I am the referee for it! Another long term goal for me is German New Guinea, but I don't expect to stumble across that one any time soon.
P.S. Maybe it's one of those freak "they seem to be avoiding me" incidents, but Monaco and Mozambique aren't actually that hard to get, at least not over here- if you're interested I have some up for swap.
Otherwise I actually did a pretty good job getting "hard to get" countries; my proudest are Kiau Chau (found in junk bin) and Italian Eritrea (a nice Tallero I got cheap). Right now I am looking for Italian Somaliland (just passed on a 1915 Rupee), and Lundy, which is a mircostate off the coast of England- thought I should get some of their coins, since I am the referee for it! Another long term goal for me is German New Guinea, but I don't expect to stumble across that one any time soon.
P.S. Maybe it's one of those freak "they seem to be avoiding me" incidents, but Monaco and Mozambique aren't actually that hard to get, at least not over here- if you're interested I have some up for swap.
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Posted: 25 Haz 2019, 04:05
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Quote: "redsmithstudios"I'd wondered what the different colors meant. I was just trying to help a fella out.
I thought light blue meant that they haven’t logged on in six months or longer, or was it dark blue?
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Quote: "BramVB"Being a Europe-collector it's indeed Liechtenstein and Montenegro that are still missing after having had hundreds of swaps here. I'm quite hopeful that one day they'll enter my collection to be my 58th and 59th country. For number 60 and further on, I'll need to start moving towards the middle ages ... (Moldavia & Wallachia, Livonia, Kievan Rus, Bohemia).Montenegro was actually one of my first countries- I remember nearly passing on the coin in a junk bin because I wasn't sure where it was from at the time and I thought it was some kind of token. Insert moral of the story about stepping out of your comfort zone here.
Edit: Oh, and as for Liechtenstein, I think many European collectors are in the same position; I came across some of their more modern commemoratives being sold quite cheap recently, but I want a Liechtenstein coin from the era I focus on- pre WWII, essentially. So probably some time to go.
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Quote: "Raibas"Not very likely considering there are almost three times as many Numista members than there are people who live in Liechtenstein!
Quote: "Jarcek"Montenegro and Liechtenstein were tough though.Liechtenstein seems to be a pain in the rear for many people! Do we know anyone who lives there? I feel like someone close to the source could fill their collection very quickly with world coins!
Nor does there seem to be any indication of Liechtensteiner Numista members on the map:
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Quote: "Mr. Midnight"Over in Europe it's not so bad- the base metal pre-1914 Montenegrin denominations can sometimes be found for a few euros each in my experience, while for Liechtenstein, a pre-WWI krone (not sure about the francs) in VF-XF sells for about 40 euro raw on Ebay.
Quote: "JRo69"The problem with Liechtenstein and Montenegro is that they only released 15 and 18 non-gold coins for circulation, the last ones in 1930 and 1914 respectively. There are just not that many coins of either country out there.yes, and the few I have seen for sale are in slabs for $300 or more.
I'm waiting for a nice cheap one of the latter before I make my move on Liechtenstein though.
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New Hebrides and French Afars and Issas are the issuers (countries, at the time) that got away for me - in the latter case, the dealer apparently sold the coin earlier in the day and forgot, and I never got another opportunity at one of those within my budget again.
In the former case, after an unsuccessful dealer negotiation (was afraid to pay that much initially, later got the courage and found the coins had been sold - common scenario for me) I wanted one of those coins enough to ask for one from neilithic when he did a giveaway. The parcel was sent without tracking and apparently never made it to my post office (I asked regularly for the next five months).
Less prominently, Korea keeps evading me - I didn't think their coins were that rare? Same for ancient China.
Qatar and Dubai is another issuer that I want to get eventually but have yet to find at non-ridiculous prices.
Greenland and Congo Free State are deep into "hope to find in bargain bin" territory. I think a few others are like that. (A few more, like Senegal and Tannu Tuva, are past that into "haha, no way".)
With Liechtenstein - by then my last non-island blank spot on the map - I knew what I was getting into, and paid $25 for a 1 krone from 1904. Was supposed to be $40, but the coin shop unexpectedly had a sale
I think I bought my first Montenegro coin in Belgrade! Or maybe not; my Numista collection only has one of their coins, and I'm fairly sure that I did find one in Moscow as well. Neither was particularly expensive.
What I am still sad about is missing out on the 300 country club... only made it to 293 when the big reorganization hit. Don't think I'm going to get close to that again any time soon (231 now).
In the former case, after an unsuccessful dealer negotiation (was afraid to pay that much initially, later got the courage and found the coins had been sold - common scenario for me) I wanted one of those coins enough to ask for one from neilithic when he did a giveaway. The parcel was sent without tracking and apparently never made it to my post office (I asked regularly for the next five months).
Less prominently, Korea keeps evading me - I didn't think their coins were that rare? Same for ancient China.
Qatar and Dubai is another issuer that I want to get eventually but have yet to find at non-ridiculous prices.
Greenland and Congo Free State are deep into "hope to find in bargain bin" territory. I think a few others are like that. (A few more, like Senegal and Tannu Tuva, are past that into "haha, no way".)
With Liechtenstein - by then my last non-island blank spot on the map - I knew what I was getting into, and paid $25 for a 1 krone from 1904. Was supposed to be $40, but the coin shop unexpectedly had a sale
I think I bought my first Montenegro coin in Belgrade! Or maybe not; my Numista collection only has one of their coins, and I'm fairly sure that I did find one in Moscow as well. Neither was particularly expensive.
What I am still sad about is missing out on the 300 country club... only made it to 293 when the big reorganization hit. Don't think I'm going to get close to that again any time soon (231 now).
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