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Valued Member
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Unfortunately, the choices for Mac users are slim, and none of them are very good.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
651 Posts |
Ozland, Primasoft is a decent program that when I demo'd worked well and in no way am I saying it's not capable. In fact if you know how to manipulate databases then its a powerful tool in its own right. The important fact is that you're happy with it.
Palindrome, I feel for you. I tried to record operating systems and for the 13 I looked at none had mac. At least you still have spreadsheets or database programs.
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United States
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For the Mac, there used to be Filemaker Pro Coin databases which were shareware. But I'm not sure if they're around anymore.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well done Ken. I'm a CoinManage person, and I love it. I just need the time to use it to its full capability. I think you probably dove into it's software more this weekend than I have done in 6 months. Having said that, thanks for the info. Especially the info about Exact change. Almost seems as if you can use this instead of a Krause catalogue for identification as well. Something to think about for the non Krause owners as yet, which is me.  |
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New Member
United States
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Very well done, Ken, sounds like you had a busy weekend.
I bought Collectors Assistant a few months ago and have been pleased with it. It's not too fancy and since I only deal with U.S. coins, it does an adequate job for me.
I am able to replace their generic photos with my own and it does include mintage stats, 2 items I'm guessing do not come with the demo program.
I've had a few issues with printing, but managed to figure it out.
Again, thanks for all the work you did, very well presented also.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
651 Posts |
Thanks Tights, didn't think of using it as a Krause replacement but not a bad idea btw I hope your honeymoon went well. I don't think I formally welcomed you back (my apologies).
Darrel, Welcome to the boards! Even as a demo Collectors Assistant was pretty good (and thanks for clarification on the full version vs demo) but it was a little expensive. I tried to weight my choices balancing balancing between cost, functionality, and features.
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Canada
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Thanks for that Ken. I've been looking for a good way to catalog what I do have, and as a world coin collector, Exact Change is the one program I had my eye on, but haven't taken the dive, as at that price, I'd prefer to give it a test drive, in case it wasn't what I wanted. I didn't see a demo for Exact Change, did you review the full program? Thanks,
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United States
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btw I hope your honeymoon went well
It did and thank you. I'm sure there are horror stories out there, but IMO you just can't go wrong with all inclusive in Aruba. As for the Krause thinking, aren't the Krause books broken out by century, and if so, does the Exact Change cover everything? I may be thinking of a different series. If I'm on the right track, I would also surmise that it may even be faster than paging through a book. Unless you have tabs/stickies stuck to pages..... |
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United States
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Topher,
I did get to try the full version but sadly it wasn't mine. I was over a friends house on the Friday night before (it helped kick start me with this) to show off a new coin from Hungary (which I'll post later). That night he had another friend stop by that he introduced me to and he had it on his laptop. Not sounding too forward I asked if it was okay if I played and he let me play with it for an hour and a half. There were some features I didn't have time or felt not right playing with as it wasn't my data (such as import/export).
In regards to tights24 question I did try to see how far back the dates went and they stopped at 19th century dates. I'm not sure why? Another thing I couldn't validate was the accuracy of the data. Even though I had a Krause manual (1901-2006) with me I didn't think comparing the info. My bad on that one but I really wasn't planning on doing this until I drove home that night.
Sorry but I had to edit this to mention one important feature I didn't get to try was to see what kind of web linking it had. I'm not sure if this was important for you but figured I should mention it.
Edited by Ken_3567
07/03/2007 6:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use Coin Organizer Deluxe just love it and it can do anything you would ever want to love it.
I looked at them all and even tried what demo version I could get and liked this the best.
But everyone likes different things.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hats of to you!! Thanks for making this information available here!!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My problem with any of the coin type programs is the ability to use it in other places. For example using Excel I can put all my coin files on a 3 1/2" disc, a CD or one of those little things you plug into a USB port or whatever you call them. (obviouly not a computer expert). If you do use a program for your coins, the chances you can use it on other computers is slim unless you put that program on that computer and if it's not yours, that is not to often acceptable. To show my son some of my collections when I go to visit I just put a disc in and POOF, it is there because like just about everywhere else on Earth, he has Excel. I've been to coin shows where there are computers available and again, you can not put any programs on their equipment but they do have Excel. Also, if your computer fails and the files are lost, hopefully you have the program saved since a new computer will not have that program either and it may no longer be availabe.
I always think of Excel as the usage of gasolene for your car. It is available almost everywhere. Now if you have a Hydrogen driven car, just where do you go for fuel?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use my Coin Organizer Deluxe on three different computers that's one thing I must have with any software I use.
Now you must install the software on all three systems but then it is easy with this simply copy the files to CD or any storage device and overwrite the old file.
I guess you could install the software to the external hard drive also. Also you can backup the files then just restore the new backup to any system. Going to copy the software to my external hard drive and see if that will work on all three systems should just add a shortcut to the desktop on each computer.
Or what I do is save the data files on my external hard drive then I use this hard drive on all three computers sharing the same data files.
I use an external hard drive to keep all my data on
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Valued Member
United States
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I just ordered Coinmanage 2007, I'm sure I'll enjoy using it. However I'll still use my old reliable Excel spreadsheets as a backup for now.
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Valued Member
United States
167 Posts |
Got my Coin Manage 2007 software today. So far looks fairly easy. The hard part is going to be the data entry for over 175 items and the pictures of my Proof sets, mint sets, ASE's, certified coins and bullion rounds and bars. Still kinda waiting for my 1GB card for my digital camera to arrive before I start. Question for those that may have bought items off E-Bay, did you or did you not include the price of shipping when entering your price paid? |
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Posted 07/03/2007 06:16 am
