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Originally Posted by TopCat  I was hoping for a program where all the dates were set up and all I would have to do would be to enter an 'X' in a box. No such program?
TopCat |
For this sort of bookkeeping and assuming US coins, just marking them off in a Red Book would be sufficient.
Next to the date/mintmark in the book you could circle the value for the grade.
That would give you a LOT of information for just a quick entry.
Excel has a number of benefits beyond that:
- You can update it with new prices whenever you want
- You can input how much it cost you
- You can input when/where you bought it and from whom
- If you take digital images of your coins you can even link to those images in Excel
- A quick click at the bottom of a column could add up the value of the collection.
It's well worth the time required to set up Excel files for your collection.
Since you already own Excel all it will cost you is some time.
A commercial database for all US coins would probably cost about $100.
