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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 19002, member: 57463&quot;]That is my first recommendation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most collectors do not know what they collect or how. They just think they do. Creating a computerized database is as different from keeping coins in boxes, as pulling your kid in a wagon is from trekking across Mongolia.&nbsp; (Do you ever run out of food in the back yard?&nbsp; See.&nbsp; It is not just a bigger problem, but a diiferent problem, entirely.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Cataloguing your collections with Excel is a good way to get the experience you need to make an intelligence choice... or choices.</p><p><br /></p><p>My second recommendation is that no one package might be &quot;best&quot; for you: you might need two or more.&nbsp; My numismatica runs into multiple lots of Tokens, Ancients, and Paper.&nbsp; In addition, I have some U.S. coins and some World coins.&nbsp; Most collectors are like that.&nbsp; In shorthand chats we say, &quot;I collect Fargo Farthings.&quot; but what we mean is that this is the 58th series I have pursued, starting with &quot;Matchbook Covers of the Mayan Kings.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael</p><p>&quot;Impulsive consumerism is both the boon and the bane of collecting.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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