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Pillar of the Community
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Is there something you suggest or prefer to inventory your coins accurately. I'm nto looking to spend much at all. Just looking for what you use from pencil and paper to computer generated programs.
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interesting, I was wondering the same type of thing for a while now I am about to organize all of my foreign change and was going to write the coins I had neatly on paper and put it in the front or back of the binder I put the pages in I would like to organize the coins in the binder by country as well to make them easier to find, this will make it a little more of a pain to add stuff I might just number the 2X2 holders and have the numbers correspond to the list I make the thing is I figure if I spend all the time on organizing I should do it they way I really want (by countries) As for my US coins, I haven't really thought about it yet. I use my danscos and then I have extras in 2X2 if they are old silver (washingtons, mercs pre JFK halves) or just rolls if they are common old coins like jeffersons silver Roosies, silver JFKs or wheat pennies. I want to make some kind of inventory sheets for these coins, but it is a big task and just gets bigger everyday. |
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I use a simple spreadsheet program (For example, Excel or OpenOffice). It has served me well for many years.
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Pillar of the Community
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I use a simple spreadsheet program (For example, Excel or OpenOffice). It has served me well for many years. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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some of each. My silver hoard is maintained in an excel spreadsheet. My Dansco albums are inventoried in CoinManage software (which is AWESOME! would be worth my time to photograph and log everything in there) and some of the odds and ends are just tallied in a pocket notebook.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yep, spreadsheet. And if you use the google tools, they are free
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Excel or Openoffice! Cant go wrong with either.
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Valued Member
United States
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Spiral notebook, # 2 pencil and digital pictures. I dont have the paintence to set up a excel spreedsheet. Is there any software that is free or cheap that you can just enter in all your coins?
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I agree with most of the replies. I use Excel, but with the advantage that I only collect British coins.
But - has anyone tried adding catalogue numbers to their lists? I can assure you that the fun really starts then! Yes, you will find varieties that you never knew existed, but there are also problems.
Put as a simple question: "Which catalogue do you use?" is perhaps a bit vague, so that should be split - for your home country and for foreign countries, although as I only collect from the one country it is easier for me than it would be for a world-wide collector.
So, if you include a catalogue number in your lists, which catalogue do you use?
Bill.
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I dont have the paintence to set up a excel spreedsheet Exactly. First, I don't get it. Second, my computer wants a stupid license key or I only have 17 more times to use it. I went back to a notebook and a pen. swcoin.ecrater.com
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United States
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Isn't someone on this board creating a database program to inventory coins? I thought he started a thread. I need to inventory as well but I would like to have pictures as well not just a line item. Ugg, inventory with pictures is so time consuming.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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openoffice is free and works just like microsoft excel 2003:)
just about...
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Valued Member
United States
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NOHOPE and his Layaway trading list experiment web page, think of how much inventory he has to upload to his page.
Makes his effort to bring joy to coin collectors even more awe inspiring.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My primary tool is also a spreadsheet. I have tried a couple of database tools, but usually go back to the spreadsheet for ease of entry.
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Valued Member
United States
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I recently purchased coinmanage2011. Without a doubt the bst way to go if your willing to fork over the 50$. It makes organizing extremely si,ple and effortless.
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Is there something you suggest or prefer to inventory your coins accurately This comes up frequently and usually always the same. Excel. However, you added that "ACCURATELY" thing. That is where things get tuff. I say that since the more info you put per coin, the longer and more complicated the thing becomes. Also, as your collection grows, again more amd more complications. That word accurately would indicate someone would want complete details of every coin and as your collection grows to thousands of coins, this would be monumetal. A long, long time ago I started with all sorts of info for an Excel spreadsheet but by the time my collection grew into thousands, many details became a waste of time. For example why would anyone want to know when and where you purchased a coin 25 years ago? I still use an Excel spreadsheet but now down to real basics and at times that too becomes excessive. |
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Posted 06/07/2011 5:42 pm
