12/18/2023 0 Comments Opennumismat coin collection software![]() It's under active development, so if there are problems, they are likely to get fixed. It's free, runs on PC, Mac, Android, etc. If you want a full database with displayed photos, I checked, and this one looks quite good: ![]() You can export it to a CSV file and import that into a database, if you decide you want to do that later. You can also keep a running total of how much you paid. ![]() So for IMG_2345.JPG, it is 2345.Įxcel is nice, because you can easily sort the file by different columns, depending on what you want to look at. "photo number" is from the photo filename for the obverse. There is a list of these on a second sheet with a photo number for each box. "box location" is a code which describes one of many small boxes the coins are stored in. You could add/subtract anything you think is relevant, like purchase date, grade, etc. My columns are: box location, photo number, region, metal (AE/AR/AV), denomination, year1, year2 (date range), emperor, obverse legend / description, reverse legend / description, mint/exergue, reference (e.g. It's flexible, so you can add any columns you want to describe the coin. I've been helping make an inventory of a collection, and what I settled on is to just use Excel. I have momentum now and am trying to not lose the little forward motion I have. I think I may have asked this question a year ago, so bear with me. Does anyone here use anything available to purchase? My fiance and I would eventually be able to create an access program to do this stuff, but again I am lazy and would rather just fill in fields than have to create anything from scratch. So with that in mind, I would like to be able to have pictures linked to entries, a standard format that allows for stuff like legends, varieties and plenty of references and is computer based. But I also realize that if they at least have an idea of what the stuff is, who to go to and what I paid to get it, they can at least avoid being totally screwed in the process. I would hope that my collection will be a little better than that, honestly. I know collectors are usually lucky to get about 40% of retail for general stuff. And also knowing that there are not always the most ethical people around to buy that said mess of coins, I would like to have some sort of easily digestible record of what I have thoroughly identified and tagged to a picture/id number as well as a purchase price. The reason for all of this is because I know human nature and for as much as I love coins and my future wife and daughter tolerate me and my hobby, I am not certain that when I croak that they will be all that interested in sorting through a huge mess of stuff with no rhyme or reason. (There have been several times over the last two years when I have been digging through a box or safe and have come across a box full of coins I did not remember I had.) Over the last two years with my inspiration from here, I have not only been more and more active in collecting, I have been doing a much better job of recording information about coins on the coins as I get them, taking pictures and adding them to photobucket and keeping them all in one place. But considering how tired and lazy I can be now, pushing 40, I can not imagine how lazy I will be 20 years from now.
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