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New Member
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Hey folks, looking for some recommendations for a personal coin collecting piece of software, for windows 10. Quite a few out here, but so many darn adverts too.
A free one would be best! But if not free, would still be useful to know which ones are considered to be the best.
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Pillar of the Community
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If you want something to store info about your collection, I'd use Microsoft Excel - if you want something free, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. I personally think spending money on coin specific software would be a waste.
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Well, lists I have, but I guess I was looking for something...prettier, with shiny options :)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Since MS Office is a popular set of software I would think MS Access would be nice.
Problem is that it has a steep learning curve.
I stick with Excel.
And without much trouble you can include links to images.
Coin collecting software never quite works the way I want it.
Someone else has decided what is included and how it's displayed.
If you are ambitious learn HTML and make your own dog-and-pony show.
That way you can tailor it to your exact likes and dislikes.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Will give coin manage a go :)
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Moderator
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I also like a good spreadsheet. Excel, LibreOffice, or Google Sheets, take your pick.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I am also interested in managing my collection in a software program. I have downloaded the free version of CoinManage and have entered many of my US coins. It seems pretty easy to enter US coins, and I like that it has a location field that allows you to specify where the coin resides in your collection. However, for world coins, I'm not finding it to be that useful. Also, I haven't vound it to be that useful for displaying coins. I would really like some software where you could create virtual albums like the one shown here on the PCGS site. Or, alternatively, view it like this. I like that you could use the same coin to fill slots in multiple virtual albums as well. That's really slick and a beautiful way to view them IMO. Does anybody know of any software program that allows you to do this? I assume that the PCGS registry only allows you to enter PCGS slabbed coins. Does NGC have the same type of capability? I've joined NGC, but haven't found the same functionality on their site. I would really like this type of functionality without the requirement for a single TPG's graded coins. I would like to use raw and slabbed coins to complete an album, because I can't ever envision having enough slabbed coins from a single company to complete a type set. |
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Pillar of the Community
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@USSID18 Thank you for the link.
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Bedrock of the Community
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One of the best things about Excel is you can put all your info on a flash drive and possibly open it anywhere. Microsoft Office is almost everywhere. To bad it's now so expensive.
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@just Carl
I have both of those, and I happen to be quite the excel wizard. I could make my own access database as well. Its just that I am not inclined to reinvent the wheel here. I like the automatic hooks into price guides, and coin details that any good coin software would provide. I just haven't seen one that gives a nice presentation of the coins like you have for PCGS Registry Sets.
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@USSID18 Thank you for the link. No problem. Hope it provides you with some additional information. |
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One of the best things about Excel is you can put all your info on a flash drive and possibly open it anywhere. Microsoft Office is almost everywhere. To bad it's now so expensive. That is why you ditch MSO and use LibreOffice instead.  |
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