What I think was about a few weeks after expressing my interest, I received my invite to check out the NumisMaster web site. NumisMaster.com is an operation of Krause Publications, the people that bring you the World Coins books and numerous magazines on coins (among other hobby topics). The usual registration is required with pretty minimal data. A link is sent to your e-mail, which you click on to complete the registration. You're given access "forever" to the sample price guide. It can be viewed by type or by date; I chose by type. When I saw it was only 60 entries, at first I thought that wasn't much, but clicking on one reveals that each entry is one Krause number and therefore includes multiple dates of a particular coin. For example, there is K#1 for Canada which is the large cent for 1858 and 1859 (multiple varieties). A description of the coin in multiple fields is accompanied by reasonbly sized obverse and reverse images of a sample. Prices in various relevant conditions are displayed at the right or the bottom of the screen; scrolling will be needed in some cases. For the Canada large cent, grades ranged from circulated to uncirculated. I expected to have only a few meager entries for the US, but what is surprising is that both Morgan and Peace dollars are included in the sample. (At least for now; I imagine that the sample is easily changed.) Access to the full price guides-- and there are three: USA, World 1901 and later, and World 1801 to 1900, is $9.95 per month for each guide or $59.95 per year for each guide. It's basically like buying the "World Coins" book every year, except, presumably, the prices are updated more frequently. There is also the opportunity to keep a de facto inventory by denoting that you own a particular coin. I may have more to comment on; just not at the moment because in flipping back and forth between here and there, my browser "stopped responding" in the NumisMaster.com window. Uh, oops? Overall, I was reasonably impressed with the sample guide, but we are probably still too casually involved and too far in the low end of the hobby -- at least for now-- to justify a subscription. For Thalia a 2 year old copy of the 1901 and later World Coins book and a 2005 Red Book will do. Those of you who are more into serious collecting and price watching may find this site quite useful.
The search function of the database and the better quality pics is what makes the site better than the books in my opinion. This is something that I have wished to have happen for many years :thumb:
Once upon a time, they had an excel spreadsheet that you could put all of your coins into and upload all at once, rather than entering one at a time. I was working on that, and when I was ready to upload, they took that option away. I had emailed them about it, and never got a response. I'm less likely to use it now that I have to go through my collection and do it the slow way.
Hi, thanks! My original post keeps getting deleted for some reason, not sure why We're looking for feedback at the moment on our service if anyone is interested. BTW, which show would you guys recommend in the next couple of months (there seems to be so many to choose from)?
Rules around here are that there can be no self promotion. So that may answer your question as to why your posts must be removed. Speedy
As was said - forum rules. However, the rules do allow others to post links to sites they feel are worthy of interest http://coins.gpanalysis.com/
Thanks for the info on that web site. I may look into it eventually. My problem is since I'm not really interested in how much my coins are worth, I seldom look up prices. However, I do attempt to make an approximation of my collections value just in case it ends up in my son's lap some day and he then knows not to spend it as cash. So that web site may prove helpful. Let us all know how it works out.
Probably not worth my money to pay for it..I buy used copies of the price guides a few years old...last one I bought for 15 bucks, it was a libray copy...thats fine with me. To bad it isnt a free service like Wildwinds is for ancients...also coinarchives.com has a lot of info offered for free regarding prices realized on ancients and world coins.
