Is Numista Worth The Effort?

Never heard of it until now. Think I'll try it.

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.

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.

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?

I use Numista everyday to research my coins - sometimes I use their forum to ask question about their site - quite helpful.

Numista is a Great resource to use.

Yes Numista is a good site , you can list all your coins and when done it will tell you what you have for countries and how many in each.

Medieval European coins have a ton of varieties, most of which are fairly rare. Valuations require multiple recorded values for the same variant; this is unlikely to happen in a field as immense as medieval Europe.

The rarity index values are just "how many Numista members have this". I suspect that most medieval European coins are not actually listed by any Numista members.

The missing info is usually just because no one added it yet; Numista is fundamentally a collaborative database.
It is also usually hard to add coins that aren't in any major references yet, which would explain why you're not finding anything new.

The ordering is generally by denomination and then by date, though they might have changed it recently. It can indeed get confusing, especially when denominations are nontrivial and/or entered incorrectly.

There is an intra-site search function, which mostly works.


On my own end, with a much more modern focus, I'm annoyed by the relatively recent (post-2020, I think) decision to merge the exonumia catalog into the main catalog, in a way that makes it strongly nontrivial to look for many kinds of coins without a gazillion irrelevant results for random tokens/medals/rounds.

This is unlikely to come up anywhere near as much for medieval coins, though.

I've had reasonable success using Numista.