Your Zoo Keeper has been very busy updating the Coin Zoo. Since February 2010, sixteen new countries have been added and a total of 123 new animal coins. Plus, the whole new format which I hope is easier to use and does not give you any trouble. (If the Zoo acts weirdly, please let me know!)

I have been following a "coin-a-day" approach (taking Sunday off), so there should be a new coin most days. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep this pace up through to September, at which point, the remaining 113 coins in my collection will be photographed, researched, and placed online. At that point, I will have over 650 animal coins displayed, which I estimate will represent about two-thirds of the coins issued. At that point, I may go back on "safari" to locate some of the remainder.

Countries added in the past few months include: Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mozambique, Norway, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spitsbergen, Sudan, Tanzania, and New Zealand.

Please see the New at the Zoo page for more recently arrivals since this article was written.