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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1081 Posts |
Hello all,
I've been back at collecting for about two years now and expect to start trading some of what I've amassed, hopefully in order to fill various gaps and upgrade coins of particular interested.
I'm looking at Numista as a platform for this - wondering if anyone out there uses it and what their experience has been? Thumbs up? Down? Sideways?
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Moderator
 United States
34393 Posts |
I like numista, especially for when I'm trying to find an example of a coin. It can be quite helpful. Also, I have added a few coins from my own collection, but I spend so much time on CCF that I can't fully commit to another platform.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
7933 Posts |
Like you, @Silver, my interest in collecting got renewed a few years ago. I use Numista for research, and like @spence, am also a contributor (I've listed about 30 types there), but never traded coins. I use ebay to move coins that no longer fit my current collecting aims. More transactional than collegial, but ... |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
694 Posts |
I would of said U-coin is better as you used to be able to upload your own pics of the coin to your database and its very easy to use. The but being if you wish to use your own pics its a yearly subscription of £24 . I am still umming and rring as its really a swapping site than trade. So none of mine would appear in the swap section lol. I use numista as well as the database is a lot more variety orientated and a great source of information.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2781 Posts |
numista is a fantastic reference site, but if you are looking to sell, or buy, then ebay is your platform, as flawed as it is sometimes it IS the "world" stage. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36459 Posts |
Seems like they have a lot of traders there but I have never tried to do a swap.
I use Numista only as a reference source, easier to use it than pulling the Krause catalogs out.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1081 Posts |
Thanks for the input folks - I'll try dabbling and see where I land. Planning to also look into ebay over the summer.... |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5172 Posts |
Regularly use Numista for ID and for collection tracking, never used it for swaps, but if I had to use something for trades/swaps (so far I just hadn't done any except in person), I would definitely rather use Numista than ebay. (I would also probably rather use CCF than Numista, and there are likely even better services that I can't think of offhand; ebay is just so extremely inconvenient, by itself and for trades, that it loses almost every comparison. Though I suppose ebay would probably still be better than, say, Tumblr.) |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Never heard of it until now. Think I'll try it.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
I like Numista for a few reasons: 1) Keeping an online inventory of my coins; 2) Identifying coins I'm not familiar with; 3) Looking at pictures of the various types of coins throughout history.
I have made a few trades, but find that almost always the people that want to trade with me do not have any coins I am interested in. Also, people tend to value the coins they own more than the coins they want to trade for.
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Pillar of the Community
4628 Posts |
I love Numista and consider it my main site, it has a great catalogue and I like the forums too. However just recently had a run in with a troll there. The good thing this site has is that we have no real trolls and and Numista has a few and the usual barrage of people who have inherited coins and want to know why the one they have is not worth the same as the 10 million dollar one on the internet. The Free Discussion forum is great and the catalogue is worth its weight in gold. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4587 Posts |
Bar none it is the best coin catalog out there... and the price is right, free.
I haven't used it for swaps, nor have I visited their boards.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
743 Posts |
I like Numista. I have used it for several years to easily catelog my collection in one place. It's also free and a fairly good resource at that. I have started to use it for trading, too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1494 Posts |
I use Numista all the time for cataloging and research. There really is no better site out there that I've seen. U-coin is pretty good but still doesn't compare in my opinion. In addition, Numista just started a banknotes section. So now banknote collectors can go there for research instead of the site that cannot be named here.
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Valued Member
United States
84 Posts |
This post is a few years old. I've done several great swaps on Numista! And of course it's a great reference. Is anyone else having fun with it these days?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
I continue to use it extensively. What I wrote six years ago still holds. Since shifting my focus to medals a few years ago, I have created hundreds of new entries in Numista.
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