New Here And Need Coin Software Input And Help!

Hi,

My name is Jen and I've been a collector-in-the-closet my whole life... nobody would expect when looking at me that I'm a dork and have an obsession with coin collecting. I'm a coin dealer so people get surprised when my brain starts to talk because my personality don't match. Lol. I'm also a coder and photographer. My whole life I've been doing this and never found a piece of software that does everything I want, so I built a whole coin research and analysis suite of software that starts by hooking up your phone or USB microscope (or even importing photos)... and I developed a few computer science methods of measuring light and restrictiveness on reflective metal surfaces, and a couple techniques at analyzing doubling methods. I would love input from the coin community since this is basically built on my whole life of aggravation in the hobby ha ha. It's all highly experimental, but my program gives you at the very least a lot of different ways to view your coins that do help you conclude what you have. I just released it, but I'm willing to give away quite a few copies so people can tell me what features they would like to see and help me improve it for the next release. My favorite features are the doubling spot analyzer which outputs what contour you are looking at as a cross-section so you can see if it's a shelf or a hub doubling. I also love the "clash & match" tool that creates a ghost image of your coin's obverse or reverse, then flips and mirrors it so you can on-screen lay the opposite side down and line it up with the ghosted/flipped/mirrored side so you can find clashes. It's not AI but can utilize it -- the most buggy part of the program. AI coin values come from it guessing based on what it thinks it see's. My program hooks to Claude and ChatGpt, but has it's own ability built in using pure computer science and what I call light science. AI will never be human eyes for that real look at a coin so this is an aid. If you want to try it or want to know about it I can post the link here. I think it would be of great value to your coin "workbench". It's called CoinScope Pro. Let me know if you want a copy to be one of my testers. Here are the features:

Capture and camera

Live view from a USB microscope or webcam, plus a live feed from your phone through a QR code
Burst stack: averages several frames to cut sensor noise
Alignment targets so every coin of a type is photographed the same way, with checks that magnification and centering match
Drawing and marking on the live picture, with undo and redo, kept in snapshots and recordings
Adjust presets: about eight named settings (low light, relief, doubling, luster, edges, loupe.) instead of 69 raw controls
Screen recording, screenshots and Snapshot Area
An illustrated guide to photographing coins for error detection
Viewing and enhancement

View tools: heat map, negative, solarize, contour, flow, polarize, raking light and relief
Channels view: one photo split into L, a, b, S, R, G, B and hue, with a histogram
Coin isolation, with a black background by default
Photo developer with every slider (Basic, Tone Curve, Color, Detail, Optics, Effects, Geometry) for RAW, JPEG, PNG and TIFF; it always saves a separate copy
Light Science workbench (30 tools)
Error and variety examination

Error Check tab, with Clash & Match first
Doubling, die cracks (with die-crack mapping), repunched mint marks and striations
Die Consensus: several coins from one die show the die itself and what each coin has extra or missing
Baseline Difference: what's on this coin that isn't on a clean coin of the same design (labeled INFERRED)
Scratch continuity: whether a line crosses the design or stops at it (labeled INFERRED)
Flag Suspect, Zoom Survey and quadrant views
Find Similar Coins: photos in your collection that look most like this one (resemblance only, never a die or variety match)
Measuring

Caliper and scale setting from a ring or four edge points
Calibration check and a badge beside every measuring tool
Specification tables for US and world coins: diameter, weight, metal, mintage
ChatGPT and Claude panels (your own accounts, no API cost)

Built-in ChatGPT and Claude windows that stay signed in
Send photos only, or photos plus your fixed default prompt, from the toolbar, the photo strip or a right-click
Report: sends a coin, waits up to 15 minutes for the answer, and has a Read Now button
The reply reads into boxes for every field, each with a tick box, and none or unknown comes in blank
The full reply is kept in each coin's AI Research
Catalog numbers each get their own box: KM, Jaeger, RIC, Numista, Wexler, Variety Vista, CopperCoins, CONECA and Other
Saved reports open inside the program
Estimate realized value from sold listings
Collection database

One folder per coin with a permanent SKU, and Add to Collection from Pending photos
Collection areas: US, Canada & Mexico, each continent, the Ancient World, tokens (23 kinds) and coin types (bullion, commemoratives, private-mint silver)
Find a Coin to Add: searches every list
Our own ancient catalog: about 113,000 Greek and Roman types, with RIC lookup by legend
Numista: look up coins with your own key, send coins to and from your Numista collection, and see its price estimates
Melt value at your own metal prices, always kept separate from numismatic value
Every name you've typed (sellers, storage locations) is remembered and can be renamed or removed

A daily copy of the database, and Back Up Everything
Every report filed in the collection's Documentation folder under the coin's name
Labels, pages and printing

Flip and label designer: choose what prints for each coin, with wrapping and Print Preview
Numista links on labels and coin pages

An invisible owner ID in every photo that leaves the program, and Whose Photograph Is This? to read it

Learning and reference

Built-in Software Guide (F1)
How Coins Are Graded
Numismatics Lessons
Quick Reference
Variety Lookup
Optional extras

Teach the Coin Finder: you box dates, mint marks and mottos on your photos, and it trains its own detector on them

Over 160 modules, and the program's best trick is still saying "I can't tell from this photo." Turns out honesty is the hardest feature to build.