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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Richard01, post: 61794, member: 2700&quot;]I have purchased two:</p><p>CoinManage 2005</p><p>I like this, it is simple to use, lays out the data nicely, has good descriptions and simple reports. Not bad, and costs about $20. Downside is that reports are simple, and valuations are outdated, and difficult to update. For pure tracking, however, about the best on the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin Collectors Assistant Plus by Carlilse development</p><p>Cost a lot more, and offers less. Hard to use, and pops up in a very small screen that you can&#039;t adjust! Limited info on the screen at one time is frustrating. Don&#039;t recommend.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, Carlilse offers the Grading Assistant, which is a stand alone grading program with thousands of photos and descriptions. Allows you to put a coin on the screen showing the obverse or reverse in up to 3 conditions along with descriptions. Scalable on screen too! Really nice tool for tough to grade coins. Downside is that MS photo&#039;s are not by grade, so only descriptions to differentiate that MS63 from a 65. Nice software though!</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, I moved it all to Excel!</p><p>I control the fields, I can do rapid updates without going out to a database for each coin (slow), and I can do awesome pivot tables breaking out my collection by any field, including nice graphs!</p><p>Use Excel, its just simpler and better. Then get current pricing from the Red Book, Blue Book, or wherever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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