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Ars Technica just spun one up recently. It's for research and fun only. In fact they didn't publish the origin block so you can't solo mine, and they have the only pool! They have very interesting articles on the creation http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/behold-arscoin-our-o... and public launch http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/the-ar...

well, there are ca. 100 clones. here are the current top ones, measured by value. from these only nxt has its own codebase.

bitcoin 7600M$ litecoin 400M$ peercoin 70M$ dodgecoin 50M$ Nxt 45M$

Sure, I posted these articles because they are basically a review of what it's like to run that common codebase.