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Valued Member
United States
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Good morning, all (Japan time)!
I've been experimenting with some of the mobil apps for coin collections and all have at least one serious drawback.
So I thought I would ask the community for recommendations on windows based software. I have a few thousand coins (mostly pennies) I want to catalog...
Thanks,
Terry McManus
P.s. sounds like a lot but coins, photography and databases are hobbies of mine...
Moved to Software discussion forum - Sap
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This comes up all the time here. And usually most say they just use Excel and many also use similar ones. I too use just Excel. A long time ago I used to have colums for date, mint, grade, quant minted, approx value, original cost, where purchased and lots of other items. Evemtually after trying to enter thousands of coins I realized most of that info is unnessary. And after many years of collecting, most of that info means nothing. My present spread sheet shows only year, mint, grade. Saves a lot of wear on my fingers.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Hi Tjmcman,
As Carl said this does come up pretty often, I think there is even a member that is building an on-line catalog.
That said I use ExactChange. Yes is is a purchase software package, but the benefits from what it provides far outweigh the cost IMO.
A google search for ExactChange by Wildman will find it.
Cheers
Peter
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The member created software that Peter mentioned is called numismetrica.com it is a web based platform that has a lot of function but is still a work in progress. It has multiple service levels including a free version that you could try out first to see if it is something you would be interested in.
I currently have a fairly small collection and it serves my needs quite well. Not sure how well it scales. I feel some of the features would probably be better for large collections and other features for small collections.
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Moderator
 Australia
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I moved this thread to the appropriate location for you.  You might want to check out some of the other software discussion thread sin this section, if you haven't noticed them yet. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks all. I've subscribed to the numismetrica but have found it to not quite meet my needs. It has some pretty neat features though.
Thanks for the leads on the software and for moving my post here. Someday I'll learn the different categories.
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Valued Member
United Arab Emirates
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well I just realized that this was an old thread. :-)
Edited by SteveCaruso
08/23/2012 1:58 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well I just realized that this was an old thread. :-) OLD? All are dated in July. Old is like me.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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numismetrica.com
Tried to make an account on this site, but I never got a confirmation email
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@Australiancoin - PM me the email address you tried to set up an account with. I can punch you through manually.
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New Member
China
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just carl
Posted - 07/29/2012 : 10:52 am
This comes up all the time here. And usually most say they just use Excel and many also use similar ones. I too use just Excel. A long time ago I used to have colums for date, mint, grade, quant minted, approx value, original cost, where purchased and lots of other items. Evemtually after trying to enter thousands of coins I realized most of that info is unnessary. And after many years of collecting, most of that info means nothing. My present spread sheet shows only year, mint, grade. Saves a lot of wear on my fingers.
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I use Excel too, I record name/km code/dim/Mintage/Mint data/weight/buy cost and so on
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just Curious any decent software for Mac users.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Numismetrica is primarily tested on Safari, fwiw.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Just Curious any decent software for Mac users. Exactchange just released a Mac version. Good thing about it that it uses the same DB file as the Windows version so they are interchangeable. |
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United States
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Just Curious any decent software for Mac users. Spreadsheets work just as well on a Mac as they do on a PC. Some of you may be interested to know that my inventory spreadsheet began its life on my Commodore 128... running in CP/M mode. |
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