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Please forgive if this is not the right place for this, but I want to hear from ancients collectors about what kind of database software they use to inventory their collections, do write-ups, attribute, write flips, and all that. My searches aren't turning up any threads that discuss options.
Years ago a fellow enthusiast on the Moneta list created a thing he called Moneta and gave me a sample disc. That is as close to the field as I ever got, and I never installed that disc. But the time has come to harness some technology to help keep track of my Roman Imperial and my Roman Provincial coins.
Anyone here know anything about all that? suggestions?
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Spreadsheets? Thats what I use  |
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Ah, thanks, but I'm looking for something that has some writeup options already in the software, but with fields I can configure. Not sure what's available these days.
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02/20/2016 5:25 pm
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The Moneta software is the only one that I know of that was available for ancient coins. I believe it covered Roman and Byzantine coins only. I should have gotten a copy when it first came out but never did. I used Microsoft Works Spreadsheets for mine.
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I just use MS Excel...
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 i never have cataloged all my coins electronically, I've been thinking about it. I do have excel. I've thought about using ms onenote since it seem pretty simple, has anyone used that? |
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I use excel too. The advantage is you can set it up however you want, enter any information you want and even include pictures.
Its hard to improve on what essentially becomes tailor made.
With mine I have; Page column and row. Description. Date. Size and weight (and material). Source, date and cost acquired. Reference numbers. General notes.
The only advantage I can see of pre-made software is that some could have the ability to track retail prices, when it comes to ancients I am not sure this can apply though since so much is in the eye of the beholder. I personally don't bother to list this anyway since in the last 35 years I have been collecting I haven't sold any coins and only traded a handful of common stuff.
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Thanks for the replies. Especially for the links on the "Collector's Assistant" software. That might be useful for much of what I have. But I also have several hundred Roman Provincial Bronzes that won't be in their database. Anyone got anything for that too? The time has come for me to start letting go of some of the coins I have accumulated over the last 30+ years, and I need something that is going to streamline the process of isolating the sale material, getting up descriptions, and listing them on a website, ebay or whatever. It is not something I have any experience with in recent years. But it looks like the old tools aren't even available anymore. What do the dealers do? Some kind of proprietary database? Edited by lrbguy
02/22/2016 5:41 pm
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I have been also looking for something more robust than an excel spreadsheet. After doing a lot of research and asking quite a few questions I've decided to use FileMaker Pro. Although it is somewhat expensive and requires some effort to learn, I feel that it offers tremendous flexibility in regards to building an inventory, offers custom fields, custom layouts for different modes of use, custom searches, printing custom tags and is "system agnostic" meaning it runs on Mac and PC.
One additional feature that I plan on using is the FileMaker Go (it's free) application with the database that I am building so I can access it remotely on my iPhone and iPad. I watched some tutorials online and have started to build my database. I dowloaded the free 30 day trial and so far I can see the possibilities it has to offer. Unfortunately my work has been really busy so I have temporarily put it on hold until things calm down for me.
Hope this helps.
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