The 74ls160 family of BCD and binary counters are very useful counters. With the capability of being cascaded together you can have a very effective and simple counter of the bit length for your project. With the counter being extremely fast (up to 125Mhz) and synchronous counting with no ripple carry, it is a very effective counter.
The 74161 and 74163 are standard binary counters while the 74160 and 74162 and BCD counters.