Countries with few coins, cheap and easy to complete

I added a 50 Fils coin  from South Arabia  into my album and noticed the coin completed the entire 4 coin set of this country. Also if you are able to purchase the 1964 proof set you can complete that country in one purchase. Their are countries with fewer coins, but are their any other countries similar to South Arabia. 

Belarus has a 8 coin circulation set issued a few years ago.

 Kuwait  also has a small set of coins, probably less than 10.

East Timor is anither one that comes to mind

Saarland has four, I only need one more… 

If you avoid NCLT and collector coins, most recently independent (Since the 1950s) and Island states have easy to collect line ups. Take Samoa, just 3major sets of coins from 1967 and same with Cook Islands, if you avoid all the NCLT, you have a cheap and easy collection of 14 or 15 coins and a few more if you collect every date.

New Zealand my own country is easy, if you just collect a date run of circulation coins from 1933, its merely 15 denominations and about 500 coins if you include the “special dollars” only the 1935 3d and Waitangi Crown are hard and the latter was a proof only release with a few circulating ones, that never circulated as they were released in extremely limited quantities for sets and sold 50% over face value.

French African countries are the easiest as most merely had the communal CFA or CWA designs and some may have had the country name in place of CFA such as the Gabonaise 500 Francs of 1985. It helps that since 1957 when Ghana became independent, most of the countries had base metal only coins and inflation means they are mostly worthless.

Modern Eritrea is also a good candidate for an easy country to collect: 6 coins, from 1 cent to 100 cents/1 Nakfa. Only issued for one year. So you can get all coins and year in one swift purchase with a bit of luck :D

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I got all  mine by buying a collected set (not a pre-made collector set). So almost before I was aware of I lacked Eritrea in my collection, I was done with that country's coins, haha

I've got all four South Arabia coins exactly that way. Through a proof set.

North Yemen is also easy to get. 6 denominations, all of which you can get through 1980 proof set, which is quite common.

South Yemen would also be easy (through CSAN) if not for 1971 5 fils, which is very scarce in UNC.

Official (not Houthi made) made issues of modern Yemen are also easy to get. 5 different types. Usually sold as one lot.

Zaire - 6 denominations. With a bit of luck you can find a lot containing all of them

Somaliland - 6 types, usually solf as one lot

Namibia is also quite easy to get. 1993 set (or just a lot of those coins, if you don't care about sets. They are common)+2025 series, which is very common

Kiribati - 9 types. You can get 7 of them through 1979 proof set. The remaining 2 (magnetic 1 and 5 cents are relatively common)

Good info, this can and hopefully will help some of us complete county sets. Thanks

 

 

 Kuwait  also has a small set of coins, probably less than 10.

Kuwait has 17 different types. And it is actually quite hard to get, because of the 1961 one-year types. (At least hard to get in UNC)

French African countries are the easiest as most merely had the communal CFA or CWA designs and some may have had the country name in place of CFA such as the Gabonaise 500 Francs of 1985. It helps that since 1957 when Ghana became independent, most of the countries had base metal only coins and inflation means they are mostly worthless.

Both West African and Central African CFA Franc are hard to complete, because there were many types, and the country specific coins are quite scarce.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon has only two circulating coins — and, actually more banknotes than coins.

The coins are almost always UNC or AU, so the attempt to introduce them in circulation seems to have failed. Still, they are circulation strikes.

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 Kuwait  also has a small set of coins, probably less than 10.

Kuwait has 17 different types. And it is actually quite hard to get, because of the 1961 one-year types. (At least hard to get in UNC)

French African countries are the easiest as most merely had the communal CFA or CWA designs and some may have had the country name in place of CFA such as the Gabonaise 500 Francs of 1985. It helps that since 1957 when Ghana became independent, most of the countries had base metal only coins and inflation means they are mostly worthless.

Both West African and Central African CFA Franc are hard to complete, because there were many types, and the country specific coins are quite scarce.

Agree, hard to get them as they are from places with minimal tourism and modern African coins that are not silver, gold or NCLT are not that popular. I kind of meant the generic types like the 5f to 100f coins. I also find coins from tropical countries do not last long and wear out very easily. I have seen Kenyan bimetallic 10 shilling coins at Good and VG after a couple of years and very worn old 50 Cedi coins of Ghana in Fair (Sub Good) condition after 5 years use.

Bahrain also presents an easy country to finish with only a few major types since the 1960s and nearly all base metal. Same with Oman and even the modern coins of Israel excluding all the religious ones like Hanukkah and Yom Kippur special issues.

A nice easy type set to get is Palestine 1927 - 1947 - individual dates and coins can be very expesnive, but 1 of each coin from 1 to 100 mils is very easy and only a nominal cost for the silver 50 and 100 mils.