Daniel's Coin Zoo

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Welcome to Daniel's Coin Zoo

Daniel's Coin Zoo exhibits animal coins from my world coin collection. I personally photograph and research every animal coin presented in the Coin Zoo. My goal is to eventually include every animal coin type minted around the world from 1901 to the present. At last count, I put that at over 1,050 coins.

Mints around the world have issued thousands of special animal coins for collectors, but Daniel's Coin Zoo will be populated mainly with animals that were important enough to a country to put on their national circulating coinage, that is, the everyday change that citizens use in daily transactions. Enjoy!

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Coin Zoo Now Displaying 694 Coins From 138 Countries

23 Dec 10
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I did it! After 5+ years, I have my entire animal coin collection on display in the Coin Zoo. That's 694 coins from 138+ different countries around the world. I estimate that 60% of all animal coin types issued in the world from 1901 to date are represented here. Which means I still have a lot more coins to find, research, photograph, and present, but at this point I have caught up with my collection.

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Coins from Lithuania

10 Nov 10
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Back in September of this year, I received an email from Luka in Lithuania enquiring about trading some animal coins from her part of the world with animal coins from my part of the world. Of course, I said, I always love the opportunity to do that!

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You know the catalogue is wrong when...

10 Sep 10
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...you google an animal, and it comes up all coins. Which is to say, you enter a search term like "Balisier Hummingbird", because that is what the Krause catalogue says is on the coin, and the results are pretty much all coin sites quoting the catalogue. But this one goes one better than that!

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Contact form fixed

07 Jun 10
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I am not sure when, but at some point the contact form became busticated. Now it is fixed (unbusticated). If you tried to contact me and saw an error message, I did not receive your email. Sorry about that. But now it is fixed, so go ahead and use the Contact me link if you wish.