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Valued Member
United States
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I'll be in my research phase starting next week, and would really like to have a neat way to record information about the collection that I can store with it and my great-great-great grandkids can see what great-great-great grandma had to say. Are there special books where you can record information about collections? How do you guys do it (if you do)?
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 United States
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Knowing what the future hold for how people interact with information, all the records I intend to leave will be electronic. Ultimately I want to do everything in XHTML 2.0, which is sufficiently different enough from what came before that I suspect it'll be forward-compatible at least long enough for me to learn the next generation.  That serves the multiple purposes of creating an archive record for insurance/security purposes, giving me a widely-distributable and compartmentable body of information for bragging about my stuff on the Internet, and leaving a permanent record (properly backed up) for my descendants who will not realize that trees were once used to produce information-carrying devices. |
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United States
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I do it on an Excel spread sheet the same way I do my collecting.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2254 Posts |
I just received Coin Manage from Liberty Street. I haven't even opened the manual yet for help and I have almost all of my current collection, including pictures, loaded. Plus, it will give you a running total of coin value.
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Valued Member
United States
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For those of you wanting to do this totally electronic, you have to realize that your files may not be readable 30 to 40 years from now. Lets skip the fact that CD's DO have a shelf life. The problem is that in the future, the files may not be in a readable format for that era. Lets say you do store it in a database with CoinManage. Ok, But be sure you also save a working PC from this era, because the new pc's (or whatever they will be called) will probably not have a capacity to read one of those huge, bulky CD's 30 years from now. Do you know where you can put your hands on a working phono to play a 78 record today? The problem will not be in storing it, but in getting it back in readable format for the current technology at the time. Just food for thought.... MM  |
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MM, I'm in agreement with you. When going through my grandmother-in-law's stuff, we found a ledger from 1886 that her grandfather (a doctor) used to record visits to his patients. It was written in pencil and looked like it could have been done last week, but it was from 110 years ago. People 110 years from now hopefully will still be able to read the written word. So it would be cool if there was some ledger type book made specifically for coin collectors. Something where you could record the specific coin info (type/date/mint/variety/whatever), how you obtained it, price you paid for it, and some general history. Basically to save my g-g-g-g-g-grandkids from having to do what I'm doing now!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mary, I myself have not used this method, but come to think of it...as morganman has stated... who knows what the future hold for us in the technology age. So I got an idea...how about a Ledger Book? (grandfather used) You can find them in any stationery store, staples, etc. This will take quite a bit of time to record the entire collection. You can start by sorting all coin/currency by type. then by date and mint mark. Example: All Morgan dollars by date - mint mark and the total of each date/mint mark on one page or more if necessary and also record what was sold throughout the years., Then a picture of one of the Morgan dollar to show what the entry is referring to. Then you record the next type in the same way. When the book is full you store it in the bank. Move to a new ledger Book and continue where the first book ended and continue until all is recorded. Just an idea. Good luck ! |
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Save your information in the computer with any spreadsheet or word processor and just keep printer copies in the safe that is what I do. I also hve a small index card with written information on each coin or sets I have as to where they came from and what I paid for them.
Just my 2 cents
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like Mila Cents method, only question is how many pages to spare for one type.
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Valued Member
United States
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Don't get me wrong, I was not knocking using the PC, as I use Coinmanage and love it. It is a very good program to use. I was referring to the question about long term preservation. However, time will also take care of it if you pass the coins down to others. They will re-record what is in the collection just like I have with some of my dad's old coins. He did it on paper, I have transferred it all to PC. But I also keep hard copy printouts. I was just saying that do not expect to record it today, put it in a vault and in 30 years expect it to be easy to get to the data you stored. I highly recommend coin programs, as they help the CURRENT holder of the collection in organizing his coins. MM Edited by morganman
02/04/2007 3:27 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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shatsi.. quote:
only question is how many pages to spare for one type.
If I had an overwhelming number of coins I would use this method as well as the PC/DVD and record them in as many ledge books as needed. MM... quote:
..Don't get me wrong, I was not knocking using the PC
I wasn't knocking PC or Mac users either. However, I would store the information on my computer, DVD and/or CD as well so, but I would also record them in a ledger book.
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Valued Member
United States
177 Posts |
I currently use Coinmanage to document my collection. I also have a print out of my collection that is keep in my safe with the coins.
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