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Orbis Collectibles

Geographic and political taxonomy

Atlas of issuers and makers

Objects are filed under the authority that actually issued or made them. Historical entities are preserved rather than mapped onto modern borders, and each one has its own page of entries.

Issuing authorities

573

With at least one published entry

Geographic groups

6

Continents and wider regions

Makers

377

Named in the source records

Attributed entries

6,131

Published entries linked to an issuer

Attributed entries by geographic grouping

  • Africa192
  • Asia1,207
  • Europe4,278
  • North America278
  • Oceania51
  • South America121
  • Unassigned4

Counts use the historical issuing authorities filed within each group. These are catalogue holdings, not measures of a region's collecting importance.

Africa

39 issuers · 192 entries

Asia

152 issuers · 1,207 entries

Europe

323 issuers · 4,278 entries

North America

30 issuers · 278 entries

Oceania

9 issuers · 51 entries

South America

18 issuers · 121 entries

Unassigned

2 issuers · 4 entries

Makers

377 with published entries

Mints, printers, workshops, manufacturers and individual makers, linked only where the museum or collection record names them.