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New Member
United States
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I gave up on ExactChange, it's just too half baked. You can't even get a full report with pictures of all coins in your collection. Their forum bans you unceremoniously if you try to sign up with a gmail address. And it's very expensive at $80.
Instead I'm now using CoinManage. It's incredibly flexible and full featured. If you are the kind of person who would by a Cricket phone then get ExactChange. If you're the kind of person who likes to have as many options as possible, go for CoinManage. In CoinManage you can enter your coin just by putting in the PCGS ID, it looks it up for you and enters all the info. The level to which you can customize their reports is amazing, almost scary. The best part is, it's half the price of ExactChange. Seems backwards since it has like three times the functionality and you can tell serious software engineers are behind it, it's not clunky at all, it's fully modern. While ExactChange looks and feels like a student project.
I'd like to evaluate "Coin Collector's Assistant" which looks pretty robust as well, but they have no evaluation version and it costs $100. When I get a spare $100 I'll check it out. I'm starting to feel like buying every program there is and doing a full review, because there doesn't seem to be a good review out there, at least not one that's up-to-date. If you read around you quickly get the impression that ExactChange is the way to go - and now I see that's wrong.
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Valued Member
United States
147 Posts |
I have not used any specialized software, but I am starting a spreadsheet. This however, does not require the purchase of Excel. Download Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ for free and you can save the document in Excel format. This is the continued development from Open Office. |
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Moderator
 United States
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Quote:I have not used any specialized software, but I am starting a spreadsheet. This however, does not require the purchase of Excel. Download Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ for free and you can save the document in Excel format. This is the continued development from Open Office. Exactly what I do.  |
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New Member
United States
38 Posts |
I use coin Elite witch is very good for my purposes as a small collector.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
@jbuck. Which version of Libre Office would you recommend?
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Moderator
United States
189340 Posts |
For the average user, 5.3.6. But if you live on the cutting edge, 5.4.2.
Another way to look at it, if your computer is more than a few years old, stick with the stable 5.3.6.
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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In CoinManage you can enter your coin just by putting in the PCGS ID, it looks it up for you and enters all the info. I've been using this for more than a year and I did not know that. Does it NGC too? BTW, I like CoinManage a lot. I migrated my whole collection to it with all the linked photos. I used to use Excel with hyperlinked photos and its now all in CoinManage. Edited by Andrew99
10/25/2017 11:13 am
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Valued Member
United States
74 Posts |
I have always used Excel. I have different tabs for each type of coin or set. It's fairly basic but has all the information I need. I also hyperlinked all of the graded coins (NGC, PCGS, ANACS) for reference. I do admit to being frustrated when NGC changed their URLs recently (you now have to add the grade in addition to the number when looking it up) and had to redo all my links!
As you can see, there are many options and it you just need to use what suits your needs.
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Moderator
United States
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I have never bothered to add images or links to my spreadsheet. The images because I have so few. The links because they can and do change. With that being said, I am certainly impressed bu those of you who do this and maintain it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I used Excel for my type set collection, and hyperlinked 3 photos for each coin. All was good until I checked in a month or two and all the hyperlinks did not work. I spent countless hours (days) adding the hyperlinks for over 100 coins. What a disappointment! I am going to look into either CoinManage, CoinElite, or Libre Office. Can you add photos in CoinElite?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
Just briefly looked at CoinElite, and it appears is not for Mac's, just Windows machines.
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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CoinManage makes it very easy to add photos and they are actually stored in the database, not as links so they don't get broken. When you sell a coin, click a button and it goes from collection to sold, but the information on the record is still retained. It also lets you create custom collections and add coins into them, though the default organization is by denomination, year, and type.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
Downloaded the demo of CoinManage, and it would not install on my Mac. Windows only.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
Found this Mac coin collecting software at the Mac App Store (under games?). US Coin Collector for OS/X. Price is $24.95. Anyone have knowledge about this product?
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United States
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I used Excel for my type set collection, and hyperlinked 3 photos for each coin. All was good until I checked in a month or two and all the hyperlinks did not work. I spent countless hours (days) adding the hyperlinks for over 100 coins. What a disappointment! If I were going to add photos to my spreadsheets, I would link locally to my own photos on my machine. The only thing I would want to hyperlink externally would be pricing information. |
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