Recently, I had the pleasure of finding an envelope from Maria in my mailbox, this one featuring four great coins for the Coin Zoo.

Upon returning from a 15 day roadtrip this summer, I was delighted to discover an envelope from the Netherlands containing eight beautiful coins from my Need It list.

Thank you to Marilynn from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, for gifting these three US coins to the Coin Zoo!

If you were to take all the animal coins in the Coin Zoo and all the coins listed in my Need It list, they together represent all of the circulating animal coins (by type) issued in the world from 1901 onward. That I know of.

2016 was a very good year for the Coin Zoo, with more new animal coins added than the each of the previous three years. This post is mostly a bunch of boring statistics (mainly for myself), but if you are interested go ahead and click the read more link.

My friend Maria in St. Petersburg has gifted another fine set of coins for the Coin Zoo, including a totally new country, Armenia.