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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I need some coin software that handles american coins and currency, and world coin and currency. What would you recommend?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This comes up almost as much as how to clean coins. Usually you'll get numerous suggestions bases on what they use. Here is my 2 CENTS. Just use Excel and make your own speadsheets. If you purchase one of the many programs out there for coins, you must install it on your computer. However, it will not be on about 99.999999% of the rest of the world's computers limiting your availability to transfer info to other places. Also, with Excel you can ask almost anyone on Earth how to or what to do and someone will be able to answer you. In addition to that, you can purchase books or pamphlets on Exel almost anywhere.
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Valued Member
Canada
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It depends on what you want from your coin software as well. Excel is good as long as you're not interested in coin images. I personally like images (lots of images) of my coins. I haven't found any program that I like and I've tried several programs.
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Valued Member
United States
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I aggree with just carl, I use excel for every thing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2605 Posts |
You can do images with Excel, you just need to have them on file. Just put a hyperlink on a coin's name and tag it to the picture file. A bit slow but it works.
I use MS Excel myself by the way.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
533 Posts |
Excel, keep it simple. You can buy any of the other programs for collection inventory but that's if you really want to get into it. I keep my spreadsheet to know what I have, how much I paid and what they may be worth for insurance purposes. The spreadsheet works just fine. If you really want a custom program do a search for "coin software" and you'll find all kinds of suggestions.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use MS Access, if you have database experience, it's pretty easy. If you don't have much database experience (or don't care to learn) Excel works just fine.
When I fist set up an excel worksheet, I had each coin type as a sheet (e.g. cents, nickels, dimes, etc). I could send you my template if you wish.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You can do images with Excel, you just need to have them on file. Just put a hyperlink on a coin's name and tag it to the picture file. A bit slow but it works.
I use MS Excel myself by the way.
I never knew that. I've heard complaints for a long time that that was the biggest problem with Excel. I would try it but that hyperlink is out of my Excel intellect. By the way doesn't the speed of your computer make a difference with that? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, it would depend on the computer. And it's not that hard to pull at all. There's the "insert" tab; within it choose the hyperlink option. It will ask you what you'd like to tag it with. The best way is to put the spreadsheet and all the images together in a separate folder (images in a subfolder).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'd almost be tempted to try that including photo things but for now I print out all info and now have about 100 pages without photos. With photos I'd end up with possibly thousands of pages. Still I'll try it just to see how they look. Thanks for the info.
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