How do you do it? What's to be done?

What is it that makes modern coin collectors feel the need to post to threads in the Ancient section telling us that photos are a waste of time and that a spreadsheet with data from slab labels could possibly cover the same needs? Should we go to the US section and talk about Q mint triple eagles?

In today's market, ancient coins sold individually almost always shown with photos. At the show I attended yesterday, I compared more than one coin to my photo file on an old Nook (same photos are on phone, computer and tablet). One prevented me from buying a duplicate. One drove me to upgrade. One I showed to a dealer who was amazed he had a coin with a countermark. I simply can not imagine collecting ancient coins without photos. We did it back when I started but then that asteroid killed all the dinosaurs and digital photography opened a new era for our hobby. If you can remember every ancient coin you have and every detail about them, you don't own enough ancient coins.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Hear, hear (or maybe you're just too old, heh, heh)

 

Your slow. Maybe stop looking at likes. This is just your personal problem

 

Just so
the dog alone
bites his tail
with finality.

 

Maybe this is why u dont get any likes. Dont be so brainy

 

Yes, I'm just doing moderns. My son bought a denarius for the collection, but for now, I'm sticking with the newbies. But I see what you're saying.

 

Did I ever say taking photos was a waste of time? I just wanted to know what the advantages were. I thought maybe I was missing out on something. The other point is, I didn't see anything saying this was in the ancients forum, just that the OP wanted to know how others got pics up so fast. And since I was curious about why so many had done it, I was also worried I was missing out. Okay?

 

As soon as a coin arrives it gets photographed catalogued and lovingly placed in my Abafil case. I have photos on FAC, and I also have a backup of all of my photos in dropbox. This way I can access them from any computer no matter where I am. I also have a copy on my SSD as well as on a backup drive.

 

Might as well chime in, since my answer is slightly different. I use a database like some others (Bento on a Mac in my case), and I use my own photos and sometimes a seller's photo. The way I get photos up quickly is to take a screenshot of the relevant portion of the database display. Then I can quickly upload the screenshot (it goes to the desktop automatically, in chronological order), no need to find the relevant photo somewhere else and no need to combine obverse and reverse photos in one. Then I just periodically delete all the screenshots.