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Valued Member
Canada
372 Posts |
I personnaly have a software program to manage mine but was curious as to how many rely on such a choice to track their coins.There are also many versions available.Thanks for sharing.
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
I use a Excel spread sheet to keep track of my collection with the date of purchase, date, mint mark, description, grade price paid and price of sale if I choose to sell my coins giving me my profit or loss summary. I keep it on a 2GB thumb drive. My wife is a Excel professional, thank god! I'm just totally inept to computers.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I have "Collector's Assistant Plus". Not the most user friendly but you can store a ton of info on the coin including photos. The biggest problem I have with it is the time to sit down and use it. I only have one 10th of my collection recorded.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
I use Open Office Calc (Excel look-alike). Date, mint mark, description, grade, grading agency / certificate No., purchase date, purchase price, seller, purchase costs (e.g. tax, shipping, etc), Item number & Mintage (for RCM), estimated value and date of estimate, sale price, sale cost (e.g. ebay fees), metal content (Ag, Au, ...). I also link pictures into the spreadsheets. |
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Valued Member
United States
290 Posts |
I leave no evidence; don't want the wife to find out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
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I leave no evicence; don't want the wife to find out.
My file is password protected... |
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Valued Member
United States
211 Posts |
I use a secret code and write price paid directly on the coin holder.
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Valued Member
Canada
426 Posts |
I do the secret code thing too. A dealer at Torex last month was telling me about that, and I thought it was a pretty good idea. I actually just wrote the code and started the labelling tonight.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
650 Posts |
I use coin manage, happy with it, loads of features, cheap at 29.00.
If you want a list of what you have and have not, and is simple, easy and portable,
grab a high-liter and a copy of CC news and stroke off what you have with the high-liter and tick the value/grade.Then do what Stunet and Splatto suggested and you have the simple version. Makes for good backup for when your electronic version disappears, and easy to keep current.It is limited.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Noverillero is a wise man. I have 3000+ coins. Mainly world and ancients, but a few series of coins as well, in my case Canadian dollars and 5 cents, world florins, square coins, and a few nice US type coins. Because I am looking at and reviewing my collection frequently, I do not feel the need to use a keyboard database, which would need to updated just as frequently. At least that way, I remain familiar with the individual coins in my collection.
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New Member
Philippines
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In my case I print the ebay page when I won the coin. As for other coins that I bought from store, I usually find the same coin at ebay, add it to favorites so that I can still track them after the auction and be able to print it. All printed forms were filed at a folder together with my album. No worries because my wife does not open the vault where all my albums and folders were located.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I put them in draws, jars boxes etc every couple of years I have a clean up and discover a whole bunch of stuff I had forgotten about...
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Valued Member
Canada
307 Posts |
I use an excel spread sheet
I tried using MS access and its data base feature but it became clunky and as I am not a database person enterer guy it became a hassle.
I have been looking for quite some time for some decent software geared to canadian coins without a lot of luck...most software is geared to the americian market (with americain databases) and with a bit of messing around can be configered to canadian coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Having said what I said 4 posts back, I think a coin data base on Excel (printed out)is a great idea, especially if you keep coins all of your life, and they need to be disposed of in your estate, or if your house is broken into, and if some or all of your collection is stolen.
The last point has been taken up with the implications of security in other threads on this site.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I started with MS Excel and have since migrated to MS Access. I keep track of: year, mint mark, grade, price paid, denomination, type, if I plan on upgrading, if I want to sell, and where I store it (Dansco, 2x2, etc).
I like Access, because I can generate reports easily.
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Posted 07/31/2010 11:17 am
