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Moderator
 United States
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For what it is worth, if anyone is already using Excel, you can use Google Sheets to open those files on your smartphone. Also, if you cannot afford Excel (or Office apps in general), you can download the free LibreOffice application suite. |
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Valued Member
United States
343 Posts |
I use good old fashioned pen and paper :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Why not just take all your coins to a coin dealer and ask him to make you a record of everything.  Or you could just ask a kid in school that is taking math if he or she wants to get some experience in documentation. Then Let them take over you collection.  Or send it all to me, you pay postage, and let me worry about what you have or used to have.  My self I simply use Excel spreadsheets to list everything. And only a type, year, mint, grade. All else is unimportant to me. |
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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
I happen to be an iPad/iPhone user although my desktop at home is a PC with a full office version of windows 7 on it. I tried using an excel spreadsheet but it just didn't work for me. I tried several different apps with mixed (mostly bad) results. I finally found an app called US coins plus by saintsoftware. It does everything that I need it to do plus has some features I have not used yet. Most of the responders have written about how they have customized their excel spreadsheets, this app does everything those spreadsheets do and I has a nice layout for viewing your coins. This is not a shameless plug, just my humble opinion about an app that I found that meets my needs. There is a bit of an expense to purchase the app but for me it was worth it. I have even used it to list my foreign coins. There is a free version you can try to get an idea of how it works. I don't know if there is a version for android users. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I track everything through excel. It does everything I need.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
607 Posts |
I use an iOS app called List Master, by List Logic Software. Not sure what it costs now but I seem to remember it being $7 or so when I bought it. Super easy/intuitive, and it can be used for to-do lists, grocery lists, etc. in addition to coin inventory lists. I think there's a "lite" version you can try for free to see if it does what you want it to; only difference between it and the paid version is it limits the number of items you can use.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1191 Posts |
Thank you all for the replies. I decided to try out numista because I visit their website often.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9399 Posts |
I just load them all into the Coin Community gallery. It's free and can be accessed from anywhere. Bit of work involved loading all the pics, but it makes it easy to see what you have. Also, load them up on a spreadsheet too. Steve |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
I use an excel sheet to track my collection, and for the nicer/ more interesting things I have, I use the CCF gallery.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4932 Posts |
I don't have anything....I just know what I have.
Good memory, I guess. I could name off everything I have in my collection & condition if you handed me a price guide just so I have something to refer to.
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Valued Member
United States
343 Posts |
Ahh to be young again.
Also a robot.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4085 Posts |
I use MS Excel on a PC but if you want something for your phone, Google Sheets would also work if you want to go the spreadsheet route.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1318 Posts |
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I don't have anything....I just know what I have. *** Edited by Staff to add quote tags. Please use them in the future. Posts are very difficult to read without them.***I used to be able to do that - now I have a tin for my duplicates instead |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
2180 Posts |
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I have blog with a separate post for each coin. It is akin to having a website with a separate page for each coin. My concept is akin to the top 20 approach. If a coin isn't worth the time to picture and document, then it isn't worth owning and goes in the trade/sell bin. I try not to accumulate things I do not want or need. I like this approach, though I don't have the patience to photograph all of my coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Further to what @twslisa said on the tax implications, Canadians need to know that the rules here are quite different. Essentially, if you are not carrying on a business and just doing a bit of casual buying and selling, if the buy and sell prices are both under $1000, you do not need to keep track as there are no tax implications. Much simpler for the average collector.
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Posted 12/13/2016 3:51 pm
