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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I collect World coins, so I generally follow Krause. Unfortunately, Krause only goes back 400 years, and my collection extends back to the invention of coinage. My response to this problem is to catalog further back than 400 years by culture, in a separate album, right back to the start of coinage.
So the collection is arranged from 1600AD to present by country then date, and from 600 BC to 1600 AD, by culture then date. With such a collection 2x2's with the id. written on them is essential, because the collection requires periodical re arrangement as it grows.
I do not feel that any software that is available would be of any help to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
Excell, but someone mentioned that I can use image attachment file links with Access.
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Moderator
 United States
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It'd probably solve my "I DON'T HAVE THIS ONE!! Wait . . . " problem, wouldn't it . . Maybe.  Quote:
For those of you with a smart phone... I also send myself a copy of my most up to date excel file to my email so that if I am at a coin store, I can pull it up quick to see what I do and do not have. Useful I copy my files to my Droid, usually via USB. I prefer to render the spreadsheet into a PDF. Although I can view the spreadsheet files natively, I find that navigating the document is more robust when it is in PDF form. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1745 Posts |
I use MS Access for my database. I catalog each coin by Serial Number and where I store it (e.g. Album, 2x2, etc.) along with all the other pertinent data.
For albums I list a zero quantity for those slots that aren't filled with a S/N already assigned for when I get the coin. For individual coins, I add them to the database once I get them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Almost to late for me to start cataloging all my coins. Since collecting for well over 60 years, my collection is now in the many thousands of coins. Almost rediculous to even consider trying to do that. I used to use an Excel spread sheet and just to make sure I'd print out everything. Eventually almost a book. When I think about trying to catalog everything, makes me dizzy. For example with well over 3,000 Mercury dimes alone I'd be spending many hours or even days doing that. Just to late. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Carl, in your case I think it'd be more effective to catalog what you DON'T have that you're still looking for . . . that's what I would do in your shoes! And 3000 Merc dimes?  I've covered my love of that coin many times . . . now I kind of wish I could paw through your collection just to see if you had any 1929's you'd be willing to part with . . . |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1436 Posts |
jakedacc,
I sent you a PM ragarding the CoinsPlus! 2012 software I use to log my collection.
Dave
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Valued Member
 United States
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Almost to late for me to start cataloging all my coins. Since collecting for well over 60 years, my collection is now in the many thousands of coins. Almost rediculous to even consider trying to do that. I used to use an Excel spread sheet and just to make sure I'd print out everything. Eventually almost a book. When I think about trying to catalog everything, makes me dizzy. For example with well over 3,000 Mercury Dimes alone I'd be spending many hours or even days doing that. Just to late. 3,000 Mercury dimes... wow. I wonder what else you have. Edited by TheNumismatic
11/28/2012 07:14 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1436 Posts |
It would be more like weeks or months to catalog that many coins  . Hope he has someone to pass them down to who'll appreciate them after he's gone... |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
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And 3000 Merc dimes? I've covered my love of that coin many times . . . now I kind of wish I could paw through your collection just to see if you had any 1929's you'd be willing to part with . . . With those Mercury dimes there are 12 Whitman Classic Albums all full. Way, way back I started with one. As better coins came along, they went into the Album and the one from the Album went into a 2x2. Eventually enough 2x2's had accumulated to start #2. This continued until set #12. Now all left overs go into 2x2's except the ones in the 40's that all go into plastic tubes. Same with 10 Lincoln Albums, many other duplicated Albums of Indian cents, Indian Nickels, All quarters and Halves, etc., etc., etc. Only one Large Cent Album though. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1227 Posts |
Carl, now I really kind of want to ask if you'd trade for some 1929's I can put into my grandparents' birth year set. That's incredible. Everything I have still fits in a shoebox! (Okay, except the pages that are beginning my BadThad-style album, but if I take the 2x2s out of the pages and put them back in the storage box, everything fits.)
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New Member
United States
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stud722, that is a great idea. I tried it and it works! I did not know that my iphone could open an excel file. No more carrying around printouts of my collection.
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New Member
United States
34 Posts |
In the "old" days, before I had a computer, I hand typed my inventory lists onto notebook paper. Whenever I received a coin in circulation, I just changed the number of coins I had of a particular date.
Much more recently, I decided to create an Excel spreadsheet by country, date, mintmark, etc. I also am in the preliminary stages of keeping a separate calculated inventory of precious metal coins in my collection by their actual silver weight or actual gold weight.
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Valued Member
United States
196 Posts |
Instead of carrying lists of paper around with me all the time, I just take a picture of the computer screen. Update as necessary.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
VACookey and I use excel spread sheets as well. But cataloging is kind of a loose term. My collection increased by multiples when I got my dads stuff. I might be lucky if I have 1/4 of mine done. I have yet to come up with a system to identify multiples. Plus I haven't felt the need to actually catalog the Danscos. I take the ones I want to work on with me to the shows. Gives me a chance to show them off and I know I won't buy doubles of something I forgot to add to the list.
I do make sure to keep the silver dollar lists up to date, as well as large cents, capped bust, those types. So when I go to a show I have the lists of those I printed plus the books I am going to focus on that day. I should probably add the ASEs to the lists I keep updated...
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